At a young age, Alex’s parents abandoned him and left him with his abusive uncle, which led Alex to isolate himself from the outside world, as he felt unwanted. Ultimately, Alex learns through his suffering to love others; which can be seen through Alex sacrificing himself to save Minnie’s daughter. Furthermore, in the poem Rain when you want sunshine a boy craves for happiness in his life and expresses his feelings through the weather. He is upset that the weather turned out to be rainy and compares this to his life so far (gloomy). His life until this point has been very much related to failures rather than success.
After being abandoned by his parents, living in an orphanage and spending six and a half years in prison, he draws on his personal experiences to describe how it would feel to be an immigrant. Starting anew often results in a disillusioned view. The reality of a fresh start is very intriguing and sometimes something that is only a dream. In the poem Baca is trying to convince the reader that being an immigrant to a new land is filled with hope “they talked about rehabilitation, about being able to finish school, and learning an extra good trade.” No different than being a free man who has been sent to prison. “The use of the prison scene provides the reader with a familiar situation to resemble two different worlds.
All these messages that have been included in Tim Soutphommasane’s anecdote, throughout the piece he has used various techniques to help put his concerns into the reader’s thoughts. For example his use of ‘appeal to family’, when he discusses teenagers discomfort with the celebration of Anzac day. His uses past experiences witnessing in the flesh the confusion of Chinese and Vietnamese children going for school excursions to the Melbourne Shrine to pay respects to Australian soldiers. This addition into the piece makes the reader think of how foreign children feel towards being expected to pay tribute to people who haven’t got anything to do with their own culture. In bringing up a topic that isn’t really thought about and isn’t discussed on news programmes, Mr. Soutphommasane open’s the reader’s eyes and places a genuine concern in how Anzac is viewed not just by Australian’s but outsider’s as well.
The use of modern poetic structures and the multifarious figures of speech he employs in his poems, stimulate the reader’s mental images to help them obtain a better perception of the concept of assimilation and alienation of diasporas in a foreign land. Every ‘second generation’ culturally and linguistically diverse migrant youth can easily align with the stream of thoughts that project themselves in the self-evaluative poems of Peter. This is evident in the poems Feliks Skrzynecki wherein he states that his father and his friends gathered “reminisced About farms” he started “pegging” his “tents Further and further south of Hadrian’s Wall” The nagging predicament of yearning to belong combined with the fear of rejection and exclusion or discrimination due to unique features that are inherent, form an integral part of the content of his poems like St. Patrick’s where he depicts “the darkness around me” as indicative of the inability to feel any real sense of belonging. Peter highlights the dilemma that plagued him and describes his personal experiences with a unique perspective influenced by the writings of authors like James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Wilfred Owen, W.B.Yeats, T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence.
Figure of speech shows the humor in the book and how he feels and deals with his conflicts. Characterization helps show social issues in Arnold’s life because it demonstrates what kind of person he is, and how he makes friends. An example in the book is “I was born with water on my brain, I ended up having 42 teeth. I was skinny, I’d turn sideways and disappear”(p.1-6). Arnold is explaining his appearance and how he got picked on about his persona.
Intro The difficulties and outcomes of feeling a sense of belonging are highlighted in Peter Skrzynecki’s poems, ’10 Mary St’ and ‘Postcard’; the story Tony’s Story by Tony from The Stolen Generation, Their Stories and the film, Shrek by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jensen all have one theme in common and that is not belonging. 10 Mary St highlights the experiences of Skrzynecki’s immigrant family as he grew up. He constantly refers to a key metaphor, “the key that opened the house like a well oiled lock”. This highlights the families and Peter’s sense of acceptance inside their home, they belong there. The key symbolism is repeated again in the final stanza of the poem, “…Our key which when this house is gone, will open no door”.
The stories of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omeleas" by Ursula K. Le Guin depict societies that depend on scapegoats in order to maintain the ideal lifestyle. In the following analysis I will compare and contrast the conflicts scapegoats pose upon the society. The stories both carry the underlying theme of having a scapegoat; however the two stories differ in the character’s reaction. The two stories carry the same symbolic meaning: peace and harmony may be maintained within the community when there is a suffering scapegoat. The community achieves a form of relief by having the scapegoat symbolize the community's sin.
Wanting to belong and asking his family not to distance or isolate him because of his affliction. 'Save Me' is one of two songs on the album written by Chris about his alcoholism. He described the song as being about "having the family, the wife and the kids who, despite all the crap that I've put them through, at the end of it you realise they're still there and they're the ones who pulled you through." 'Save Me' can also been seen as a love song, it's about having a difficult time and having a person in your life who can pull you through and searching stability, finding it through the person you love. The lyrics are a personal narrative of an addiction of his desire to belong to his family to be connected to them and to be the same – free.
Betrayal and Guilt Today’s society aims for perfection, but perfection is impossible to achieve. Everyone makes mistakes, our culture looks at every single mistake as a flaw. A mistake such as lying is betrayal of trust, trust is hard to earn, but when trust is destroyed, everything you originally had is gone. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, portraits many major themes corresponding to the dramatic plot. The story begins as a close family friend calls from Pakistan, wishing the main character, Amir, to go back to his birth place for some unfinished business.
Men and women seek hope in his or her lives in order to make something of themselves useful, but they cannot find it because of the fact that they are too isolated by his or her surroundings. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates Lennie’s friend, George, as a person who has a bit of hope, but is worried that his “partner” is going to ruins his life once again like at the time they were at Weed. George is often characterized as a person who has to take care of Lennie because he knows that the only person that could ever make things go wrong is Lennie. “Am I My Brother’s Keeper” specifically represents George because it shows that even though he has little hope on his side, he has to take of one’s life, and that is Lennie Small. When George has hope on his side, he says, “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.