Alice learns how protective and careful she has to be while looking after her brothers and sisters. The same thing happens in the outside world, if you are not careful with your responsibilities they may be taken away and this may end in severe punishments and discontent from your family. Throughout Unpolished Gem, Alice's family plays a crucial role in her journey to
From families we receive encouragement, love and life lessons. Families are the key tools that shape individuals into the person they want to become. Society says the best families are the traditional families. But in today’s society family structures have changed. In today’s society families consist of civil unions, single parents, and families that try to utilize and keep the same values that were present in the 1950’s.
Jeff Clarke is a valuable person for the company, but his past conduct (considering his grandmother’s sickness) demonstrates that he gives priority to family issues over work related issues. 7. What do I want my audience to think, do, feel, or believe after reading my message? I want the primary audience to understand that the company does care about family matters, but same time company has followed its rules and regulations and to be
In Chapter 6 Ruth beats up her son Billy for his inability to recite a passage in the Bible on Easter in front of the church. On the other hand, throughout the book Ruth mentions the sexual and physical abuse, her father applies to his children, abuses that come randomly. Yes, both Ruth and her father hit their kids, but the difference between the contacts is that Ruth hit because she expected more from her son, she wanted her son to be great, after all it is described that “his memory would serve him well enough to go to Yale
The sense of belonging to a particular place or community is an important value in everyone’s life. That feeling of belonging is shaped by the relationships and past experiences. It is also influenced by the people around, place or even the environment. From the three texts I realized that sometimes people need to change and adapt to their surroundings to find that sense of belonging. Her memoir “Unpolished Gem” tells the story of young Alice Pung as the main character and her family couldn’t fully belong to the Australian society because of some barriers.
“Belonging is when people accept you for who you are” Our identity determines who we are and where we belong, and it undergoes a continual change as we are exposed to different kinds of environments and people. Belonging means to feel a sense of welcome and acceptance to someone or something. It is indeed true that belonging is when people accept you for who you are, isolation and depression often ensues when one fails to find a sense of belonging. Our sense of belonging could be affected by the change of our experiences overtime, and how easily we are influenced by our family and friends, or even media. As it may be difficult to discover our true identity, it jeopardises our ability to find a sense of belonging, because we are weary from our previous unpleasant experiences.
Big world by Tim Winton depicts the main ideas of how friends and family can have such an impact on and individuals identity, we can see this through an example where the main protagonist quoted “ My mother is trying to wean off biggies. In fact she's got a program all mapped out to get us back on track,” here we can see the use of metaphor where the mother isn't literally mapping out a plan but as a mother she is the one that helps her children get back on path, therefore she is a major influence in how her children's identity is influenced. The poem Identity by Cyrus Diaz depicts the isolation relationship which the poet illustrates through the use of repetition of true
“Suddenly you find yourself tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is close to colored children.”The only real emotion the clergymen felt is guilt. They were appalled with what they saw; they are ruining the lives of innocent people just because of their skin color. King puts the image of a little girl in the head of the reader, and the reader feels heartbroken. There is nothing worse than telling your kid they can’t do something because of what color their skin is. Is that fair?
I empathise with these people and want to make a difference to their lives as I have personally experienced abuse and misfortune. My parents were working-class immigrants, I was bought up in a family which had very little money therefore there were no toys at all, I have experienced racism and worse still, my father was physically and psychologically abusive to me and my siblings. Added to this I was bullied at school. So I know how it feels to feel isolated, unloved and rejected. At eighteen, I was "kicked out" of the house and later still, at around 20 I left home and stayed in a women's hostel before gaining permanent residence.
When asked to defend a black man in a controversial trial, he accepts and through this trial works to teach his children the importance of equality, acceptance and fair treatment. Atticus’s teachings are always subtle but throughout the book it can be seen that the majority of Scout’s actions are based on what Atticus has taught her. One such lesson occurs in chapter three. After Scout beats up a poverty-stricken boy named Walter Cunningham for having gotten her in trouble, her brother Jem intervenes and invites Walter to have lunch at their house. This upsets Scout greatly and during lunch she acts very rudely to the boy, an action for which she is scolded by Calpurnia, the children’s African-American nanny.