In the book, Gary talks about how his television images motivates him to have a way out of Fresno and it kept him fighting to find away out of poverty. He fought for a place where he can plan his roots and be accepted for who is. Gary also had many family conflicts but the biggest one was with his step dad. Gary’s lack of education and being mistreated in school made him think that his future was going to be living in Fresno the rest of his life like his parents did. Gary wants to break away from poverty and keep the next generation out of working in the fields or factories.
As an alternative to challenges in dysfunctional relationships, individuals may seek escape, leading to an active step towards transition. In the Simple Gift, Billy’s distant relationship with his father and town he is living in forces him to seek escape. Herrick represents this dissatisfaction with family and community using descriptions of the weather to create a negative and depressed atmosphere, both physical and mental, of “Nowheresville”, and “The wind howls and the rain sheets in”. This egregious weather metaphorically represents Billy’s emotions and the challenges he is constantly facing in this environment. As Billy begins living in Bendarat, he leaves behind his old challenges such as his dysfunctional family in exchange for new challenges such as homelessness and hunger.
In order for integration to occur, an individual must discover factors, such as people, that tie them deeper into the community; once this has occurred, an individual’s identity will change to reflect their community as more than just neighbors, but as family. Moving from a comfortable life is never anyone’s idea choice, but circumstances with Will’s career made Medicine River an optimal place to go for the time being. He returned to Medicine River, with no sense of belonging. Being half Blackfoot, half Caucasian and spending childhood in Calgary, this small aboriginal community was almost as foreign to him as he was a foreigner to the community. Harlen Bigbear was a friend Will met following his mother’s funeral; this friendship was critical in many deep levels for the integration of Will in to the community.
Similarly, in the poem Wild Boy of the Road the parental hesitation is visible, “His mother is worrying about him… His mother is wishing her boy would come home.” The usage of the words worrying, boy and come home demonstrate the same feeling as in the story. Knowing that the child may struggle with different life issues alone is a difficult feeling for parents to contain. Furthermore, when a child is no longer surrounded by parental support and encouragement parents sense that their role has been reduced and
If their mother was still alive they would not have to hide from their father. Brian on the other hand attributed his experiences to the fact that life was harsh on him and he could not forgive the people in his life that hurt him. This was in the beginning of the movie. An example of this is when he refuses to visit his mother during the weekends and speakes rudely to his mother on the phone. Later on in the movie , after mixing with Rohana and Rohani he forgives his mother and goes to visit her.
Jon Krakauer has written a thoroughly familiar American story. Its central figure, a recent college graduate named Chris McCandless, is spiritually ill at ease in his well-to-do East Coast bourgeois home and strikes out on his own, impelled by a need to make a new life for himself. In a haphazard way he sees a good deal of the Southwest, canoes down the Grand Canyon to Mexico, wanders about the Pacific coast and into Montana. Along the way he works in an Italian restaurant in Las Vegas, fries hamburgers for McDonald's, and works on a harvest crew. Determined to live authentically on the edge, he makes his way to Alaska where, provisioned with ten pounds of rice and a collection of his favorite paperbacks, he establishes himself north of Mt.
Her brothers are worried that if Alex becomes involved with Carl, she will marry him and that the land will go to Carl and any children they might have rather than back to her brothers and their children. They argue that Alex should stay away from Carl because he is broke, and is just after the land, but Alex says it is her land and she will do with it what she pleases. A fight ensues where the brothers argue they did all the work and therefore should get the land, but Alex points out she worked too and made the hard decisions that landed them where they are today and that they all three split the land evenly. Even though Alex’s love for the land is inevitable, she at times struggles with the acceptance of other because of her womanhood. Her brothers insist that the land should be owned by the men of the family only, which is what sparks Alex to respond as she does.
‘“You can’t just live like this”, I said. “Why not?” Mom said. “Being homeless is an adventure”.’ Even though Walls knows her parents made the decisions that led them to where they are today, she feels unhappy for them. Walls began to realize that her parent’s decisions weren’t the best for her family, and she began to have mixed feelings for what she needed to do. ‘“Mom, you have to leave Dad”, I said’.
Similar to Peter Skryznecki’s writing, the film identifies both feelings of exclusion and affiliation. Again the characterisation of Max is a strong influence of this theory. Max feels a strong disconnection with his home, due to his feelings of being misunderstood and out of place; he strives for affection and understanding. His house to him is merely an empty shell where he feels he cannot connect. Through the use of soft lighting, low digetic sound and low camera angles within the ‘fort scene’, contrasted with the laughing of his mother and her boyfriend, highlights Max’s will and determination to belong to a certain place.
Short Story: Big Brother Little Sister Author: Witi Ihimaera Commonly when couples divorce or separate the impact on their children is huge, Witi shares a story that describes a fairly typical scenario in which a new father figure is introduced into the family but unfortunately is not interested in the children in the house. Hema portrays the role of the older brother that has to step up and play the father figure to his younger sister, his responsibility has come about because he needs to provide the love and protection that has become no longer available from their mother, father and step-father. Many older siblings find themselves in the situation and although i find it admirable that this young man looked after his sister so well, it is also extremely sad that a young man would find himself in this position. It is unfortunate that in some de facto relationships the insecurity of a partner causes the values or beliefs to change and for that partner to protect themselves at the disadvantage of the child, I believe it is important to always put your children first and have a strong support structure from your extended family.