According to humanist discourses, the most important place of belonging is ‘home’. In particular, people living in ‘regional homes’ share certain characteristics such as language or values that strengthen their belongings. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a region is “an area, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries” (Oxford Dictionary, 2013). Commonalities such as history, language or economy create an own identity for the people living in that region. Sandra A. Zagarell, a professor of English at Oberlin College in Ohio, states that regions are not only place-based rather than human shaped (Zagarell, 199).
The image therefore illustrates the paradox of belonging which gives a sense of unity but can also be restrictive. Consider: |What are the visual techniques in the |How does each visual technique illustrate|How does each visual technique illustrate| |text? |belonging? |not belonging? | | | | | | | | | | | | | Text two – Nonfiction extract (b) ‘… I was more aware of our difference.’ Explain the speaker’s relationship with his brother.
Ben Franklin was the youngest of seventeen children, and his father was a tallow chandler. At an early age, Franklin began working as an apprentice at his brother’s printing shop. Franklin began to help his brother print newspapers for the “New England Courant” until he and his brother began to fight, and Franklin moved to Pennsylvania to begin printing his own newspaper “The Pennsylvania Gazette”. This part of Ben Franklin’s life may seem insignificant to his later accomplishments, but I think this experience working with his brother, and how their relationship unfolded shows the reader how Franklin showed determination to continuously search for opportunities to improve himself. I
“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
Practice Assessment Tasks Q2 Andre Lombardo ‘An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging.’ Belonging transcends all cultural and physical aspects, ultimately relying on our own perception and attitudes in our interaction with others. This representation of belonging is seen in Raimond Gaita’s memoir Romulus, my Father, which focuses on exploring his father’s moral identity and their joint experiences living in Central Victoria as European immigrants arriving in the 1950’s. The main connections of belonging explored in the two texts are connections to place, in terms of landscape and community; as well as connections within relationships. These connections serve to enrich an individual’s sense of belonging to their community, environment and within their personal identity. Raimond Gaita’s memoir, Romulus My Father demonstrates how an individual’s
BELONGING ESSAY Peter Skrzynecki explores this notion of belonging being influenced by these contexts in his poems Feliks Skrzynecki and St Patrick’s College, where Skrzynecki describes his complications with assimilating to the Australian culture and dissimilating with his polish heritage. Similarly, the monologue, “My Chinese Identity” by William Yang, expresses that one’s sense of belonging is shaped by their cultural experiences. The construct of belonging is one that is created from birth, and has both negative and affirmative connotations. Skrzynecki’s attempt of belonging to the institutional environment of St Patrick’s College, burdens him with a haunting sense of exclusion, highlighting that his time at the school was one of painful
Romulus, My Father Belonging is by its nature a measure of connectivity to places or individuals. Those connections allow real attachments and emotional relationships with places and people which are the foundations of a sense of belonging. The ability to form those connections is dependant upon the natures of individuals but also on the circumstances in which they find themselves. These ideas are explored in Raimond Gaita’s memoir ‘Romulus, My Father’. Gaita’s various characters can be seen as different examples of connection with places while Christine represents an individual unable to form real connections with either places or people, and Raimond appears to be the most ‘connected’ character, Romulus represents an individual with barriers
An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices but also by the attitudes of others. How accurately does this statement reflect the ideas represented in your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing? The sense of belonging that can be gained by being part of a community often means that collective identity is prioritised over the individual identity and sense of integrity. An individual may have to make a choice to belong which conflicts with the communal attitudes of a society. Drawing ideological parallels between 17th century Salem and his own experiences during the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950s, Miller sought to draw parallels between one of the “darkest periods in American history” and his present context, to highlight the destructive nature of mob mentality.
Argos now at least twenty finds the strength to look for Odysseus. Argos finds his master. Later on Argos then dies feeling content. The loyalty of Argos shows when every day he waits for his master. Putting up with little food and love.
How has your understanding of belonging been enhanced through a reading of your core text and one other text? Set in central Victoria after the Second World War, Raimond Gaita’s novel ‘Romulus my Father’ explores how a sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made with people and places. Through ‘Romulus my Father’, the reader encounters aspects of belonging in terms of experiences, notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding. As well as this, it is also a reflection of the barriers preventing people from companionship and a representation of people’s choices not to belong. Similarly, although set in a more modern context, Jodi Picoult’s novel ‘The Pact’ explores the same ideas and notions of belonging to people