This once inner conflict soon becomes an outward conflict between Biff and Willy. Willy has a particular standards which he holds Biff to. Willy wishes for his eldest to be a salesman, as himself, absent-mindedly forgetting that his other son, Happy, has completed such a task and became the one thing he wanted for Biff. Willy is quite critical of Biff’s life choices, seeing them as failures, while Willy is losing his worldly possessions, his family and even his health because of said profession. Willy, himself, conformed rather than following his brother to Alaska, Africa or anywhere else.
“An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging.” Personal relationships can provide a deep sense of belonging and profoundly influence our values, attitudes and beliefs. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “10 Mary Street” reflect upon what it means to belong and its ability to enrich or inhibit the individual’s sense of belonging. Similarly Shaun Tan’s 2006 graphic novel “The Arrival” delves into the migrant experience and the explores the process of belonging. Together these texts reveal how an individual’s relationships with the people and the world around them can limit or enrich their sense of belonging. The poem “Feliks Skrzynecki” explores the concept
He felt abandoned because he also knew himself that he was only taken in by family for his work ethics but not for the caring and love of a child. The lack of love that he received at a young age for him influenced his decision of running away and living out into the dessert at the age of fourteen. This situation of having no one to depend on or depending on him has given him freedom and independence but has also betrayed his caring and loves towards others. Nat Swanson is ushered by a stray dog through his lonely journey. The impact of the dog accompanying him shows the lack of communication that Nat Swanson has.
Through this poem we, the responder learn about how difficult belonging must feel for an immigrant such as Feliks Skrzynecki as we know that overcoming multiple barriers is needed to achieve a sense of belonging. From overcoming these barriers, Feliks feels a stronger sense of identity and belong which seeks to challenge Peter’s own sense of
Ancestors and Post card both explore the concepts of belonging. The ancestors create a subconscious life path that creates for the poet the realisation the he will inevitably will belong to his heritage and his homeland. Post card confronts the poet in a way that makes him explore his identity in order to understand where he belongs and how important his homeland and his heritage are to
The poem suggests that the persona didn’t really fit in with his father’s happiness and the powerful phrase “happy as I have never been” suggests this very clearly. Skryznecki realises that he and his father have different perception of belonging. There is a section in stanza 7, line 3 which states that the person forgot his first polish word and would repeat it until he never forgot because he feels so distant from his father’s heritage. The next text I would like to confer with all of you is “Migrant Hostel” which is about groups of migrants who journeyed through the experience of going through the migrant hostel in Parkes, in the centre of New South Wales. As I noticed whilst reading this poem, that there is a sense of imprisonment and insecurity, towards the migrants as they waited desperately to be relocated to an unknown destination, which would probably unwelcoming to
How do the poems ’10 Mary Street’ and ‘Feliks Scrzynecki’ explore the impact of home and family on belonging? Reflecting back on his past, poet Peter Skrzynecki explores the positive impacts of home and family on belonging. In his poems ‘10 Mary Street’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, Skrzynecki retells the story of the persona’s childhood through the perspective of an adult. This allows for the responder to understand the persona’s feelings and emotions about his past and about what it means to belong. While ’10 Mary Street’ explores the importance of the family and the family home on belonging, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ portrays family and culture as important aspects of belonging.
Journeys offer new viewpoints about something or someone and provide strong relationship and understanding such as Ant’s viewpoint changed about his father. He had negative thoughts about his father before the trip and was not so close to his father. Emotive language is used at the starting of the short story Land/escape to show this
He abuses Huck verbally as well as physically and soon shows that he is a brutal drunkard. After his father keeps him locked inside a cabin in the woods, Huck decides to escape and uses a pig’s blood to fake his own death. This act indicates that Huck’s moral development is still at its beginning and that he doesn’t care about the emotions of other people. This attitude will change later when he plays a trick on Jim on the river. But for now, while he is carrying out his plan, he doesn’t even think about what all his friends and family will go through when they hear about his death.
Victor’s feeling of the lack of his father’s love is more deepened after his father Arnold has left home. Victor feels abandoned and too desperate to restrain himself from punching Thomas. Victor runs to assure his father’s love, but he never has a chance to figure it out, until he meets Suzy and finds a family photo at his father’s trailer. Suzy’s