While they are moving to new land things will be tough. They will have to learn a new language, learn how to function on the streets of New York, find jobs, and meet new friends; starting their new life will be tough, but they will be able to fall back on their tradition as it may be the only stable and consistent they thing they have in their lives. The idea of tradition has the ability to affect everyone in the same way. If you leave behind your friends or loved ones you can fall back on your tradition. If things are not going the way people prefer, or people are uncertain of what is to come, they may fall back to tradition for their tradition is perpetual.
English: Analysis and Response to a Visual Text. By Georgina Golling. The Arrival written by Shaun Tan is a beautifully illustrated visual narrative - also known as a silent graphic novel. The Arrival follows the life an anonymous man who’s forced to leave his family and country behind to travel to a strange new city, where even the most fundamental of things are foreign to him. The purpose of this text is almost impossible to determine for sure, however I believe it is trying to encourage readers to look beyond their own ordinary lives and consider what they might be like from a different perspective.
Although belonging is about the desire of acceptance, a study of Peter Skrzynecki’s poetry and Von Trapped, depicts a compromise between one’s personal vision and the demands enacted by society. Whilst protagonists may be instinctively drawn to belonging, without a strong emotional, cultural and philosophical connection, they may suffer feelings of alienation and detachment. Evoking a sense of discomfort and disassociation, Skrzynecki’s poem ‘In the folk Museum’, explores the struggle of an individuals search for cultural certainty and emotional connection in order to belong. This positions Skrzynecki in a world where he can find no personal satisfaction. Skrzynecki’s feelings of estrangement are registered through the establishment of
If immigrants try to actually be part of a new country, they sometimes forget about where they were born and where they grew up. When they get depressed or have any trouble it is very helpful to have someone, from their native country, to call. Also, having some good remembers is really good in order to avoid or overcome a depression caused by being lonely. Also there is a fact that immigrants that try to become a new member of a new culture will never be able to change and that is where they were born, or in other words their native country. Trying to completely assimilate an unknown culture might be very risky for some reasons.
Empty Town Commentary Empty Town is a piece about a troubled boy and the society he lives in. It develops journeys & pilgrimages in how the boy is taking a physical journey to the train station but also an emotional journey to leave his former-self behind. Evelyn by James Joyce was my primary stimulus. It’s written in 3rd person but also uses focalising and a flashback. I wanted to use this to build a view of my protagonist from an outsider but also give insight into his past and reasons for his emotions, like Joyce I included a backstory.
In the beginning of the poem when the traveler is introduced for the first time he has to make a decision of what road to take. In The middle of the stanza he has different arguments that are explained well enough for us to picture helping the traveler make his choice. In the last part of the poem the traveler begins to have doubts of his decision experiencing his results and thinks things could have been different if he went ahead and took the road he left behind in the past. Frost lets us picture the traveler’s decision in the lines “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler” (1-3). This helps the reader understand in the beginning of the stanza that the traveler must make a wise decision of which road to take.
"Mid-Term Break" is a very emotive poem in which Seamus Heaney reflects on the death of his little brother and explains what was going through his mind at that time. The poem's title suggests a holiday but this "break" does not happen for pleasant reasons. For most of the poem Heaney writes of people's differing reactions and at the end he is able to grieve honestly. My first opinion of this poem was that it would be a bright poem and a child’s thoughts and exaggerations of the time they get away from school. I first realised this was not the case as I read the first line, “I sat all morning in college sick bay” Immediately the line tells me that something is wrong as “sick bay” is were children usually end up when they are feeling unwell.
Despite the speaker questioning the use of the wall, it is he who instigates the mending each year, “I let my neighbour know beyond the hill”. This is the paradox that is at the forefront of this poem, and I believe the reason why he is
My husband was neutral about them leaving home and though I knew this was the natural progression of life I felt myself presenting him because he didn’t understand and share my feelings. It had a great effect on our marriage. I found that the transition from being a wife and mother to basically just a wife difficult to make. Instead of join us closer, a chasm develop between us that was difficult to breach. No matter what my husband tried I just cannot shake the sense of loss.
Therefore it is likely that the short story “My Son the Fanatic” has taken place somewhere between Second World War and now, after immigrants from the Middle East came to the United Kingdom. The title makes the reader guess who the main character is and from which point of view the story is told. “My son” suggests that it is one of the parents, in this case the father, who is looking at his son. The second part of the title, “the fanatic”, suggests that the father is describing his son. Though, is it a third-person narrative and the narrator is an omniscient narrator, but we do not know his identity.