People experience a sense of belonging in varied and complex ways. How is this explored in the texts you have studied? Belonging is a layered concept where you can achieve a sense of belonging through. Peter Skrzynecki has explored the concept of not belonging due to the lack of connection in the poems “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “In the folk museum”. The lack of connection or intimacy will lead to isolation and alienation.
- Title is generalized (doesn't actually state the name of the museum): this creates a sense of personal detachment from the museum which reinforces Skryznecki's apathy towards the place. This could also be double entendre/pun with the reference to 'folk' possibly meaning his ancestors. - The references to darkness personify it as a pervasive, harmful entity - to use a cliché, his past is coming back to haunt him. - Skryznecki denies his past, believing it is irrelevant. This is coupled with the fact that the imagery of the museum is particularly tedious and monotonous [e.g.
At one point, Andy looked into his eyes and became overwhelmed with his feelings of isolation. "The loneliness-the desolate cold aloneness of the landscape made Andy whimper because there wasn't anybody at all in the world and he was left." From this glimpse into the Chinaman's world a person realizes how alone the old man is actually. The old Chinaman is known around the town as “Death,” because his eyes are one colored and abnormal. Although, if one were to truly gaze into his eyes, he/she would not find death but longing for a friend.
The repetitive connection of the first line with the last blink blink Cemetery silence reflects both the reality of the cycle of life as well as its temporal nature. In death the absence of social restriction is emphasise through the listening of no responsible obligations or concerns. Through this technique the poet indicates the loneliness and emptiness of life as he sees it. Here the concept of identity seems to be lack of identity emptiness constructed through a negative reaction and cynicism about th
When in London because of the smog you can’t see anything so you feel trapped and confined like in Eel Marsh House, Kipps calls it ‘like a game of blind man’s buff’, this shows how Kipps feels about having his senses trapped and locked out. ‘what figures I could make out...were like ghost figures’ as the fog blinds and the setting is glum and doom this again refers back to how Kipps is a realistic man and doesn’t believe in ghosts so uses this example as if ghosts were not real, Hill also uses the technique of foreshadowing to refer what happens later in the novel. This also relates to how Kipps is feeling when referring back to the thought of the Woman in Black appearing when he visited Crythin Gifford. Pathetic Fallacy also sets the setting of a normal day in London, and how the ‘the miserable weather and lowering to the spirits in the dreariest month of the year’, when Hill refers to the weather using pathetic fallacy she creates the mood to be very miserable and upsetting, like there is no positive side to Crythin Gifford. ‘Dreariest month of the year’ suggests that the town is quite dreary and is like how the houses and people of the town are seen.
Asef Rahman English 10H 10/15/2012 Ethan Frome: a lonely man indeed The novel, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, is a story about Ethan, a man torn between the moral obligations to his wife, Zeena, and his need for a person to love. The author’s use of foreshadowing, metaphors, imagery and motifs vividly convey the overall message that man cannot simply live alone and needs somebody in his life. He has Zeena but he does not converse with her at all. The fact that Starkfield was a depressing place to live did not help his life either. Although Ethan’s overall nature was damaged by the smash up, his time spent in Starkfield had caused his overall melancholy demeanor and left him feeling isolated.
Peter Skrzynecki’s poems such as ‘10 Mary Street’, Feliks Skrzynecki ‘The Folk Museum’ and ‘Ancestors’ I feel, all show a sense of detachment and not belonging. The Folk museum and ‘Ancestors’ both show that the author may have lost a sense of belonging to his heritage and culture and now cannot find a new sense of being be part of these areas. Through this I believe that it
“TO remind of pass/ Which isn’t mine.” Indicates where Skrzynecki had tried to fit in with the museum but the tone of sadness and depression show that he had failed to connect with the new culture and country. While he walked out the museum, Skrzynecki used direct speech “Would you please sign the Visitor’s Book?” to reinforce tyhe idea that the old woman in the museum doesn’t understand or care about him, “sign the Visitor’s Book” shows the old woman only cares about her job, she is indifferent to his feelings or why he is leaving. This makes it clear Skrzynecki (had been isolated by the museum—which becomes a symbol of his dislocation from Australian. The red thing in Shaun Tan’s short film “The Lost Thing” is disconnected and isolated in any place. When the huge red thing is sitting in the dark corner of a small house, the boy’s parents are doing their work under the
The movie starts with Eriksson being trapped into a VC tunnel and saved by Meserve. In reality, however, Meserve never rescued Eriksson. The adaptation is understandable, as it reveals the inequality of their relations. Eriksson holds a lower rank and owes Meserve a favour, which dramatizes the later scenes in which Meserve goes mad at Eriksson when finding him trying to return the girl to her village, and Captain Hill tells Eriksson not to ruin the life of Meserve who has once rescued him. This scene further shows that Meserve, who cares for his comrades, is not a merciless person, forming a great contrast with his inhumane treatment of the girl.
Ann was becoming uninterested in John, in that he is becoming “…boring…” similar to the feeling Ann has regarding the farm, “…the frozen silence of the bitter fields…” (p.290) “It was easier to stay at home, to stand at the window staring across the bitter fields, to count the days and look forward to another spring.” (p.293) The character foils in “A Painted Door” continue in the development of the theme, in that John and Steven contrast each other, the lack of communication that John and Ann share is made up from the immense interest Steven has with pleasing Ann’s every