Concept of Belonging
Belonging to a community or group has a significant impact on an individuals sense of self.
discuss this statement, focusing on how the composers of texts you have studied represent belonging.
Belonging to a community or a group is essential on someone’s sense of self. Whether it is a sporting team, family, or background, to belong is a human necessity. People want to feel secure, happiness and pride. The poetic series immagrant chronicles by peter skrzynecki portray the sense of belonging or lack of he and his family felt once migrated from Poland to Australia. Only ten by allan Baillie is a short story which represent the ideas of not belonging to a new community after the resettlement in a new foreign country. Escaping from his war torn country, Hussein or “the shah” and his alien like antics are surprising and odd to the school students. After he fails to find anything in common with the kids, he isolates himself. Culturally, these people do not fit in.
Feliks skrzynecki, a poem from the immigrant chronicles series, explores and contrasts the concept of belonging feliks feels, compared to the lack of his son peter feels. Feliks is able to feel a connection to this new place through his garden, and his home. Even tough feliks is separated from his friends back in Poland, he is able to establish another group of friendships through the migrated polish community. From the initial stanza, this aspect of belonging is established.Through the cultural independence of his father, the poet underlines man’s choice in whether he belongs or not. The garden, “loved like an only child”, is a symbol for Poland, the homeland of the persona’s father. This attachment, as the audience is told that the poet’s father has “swept its paths ten times around the world.” Such hyperbole emphasizes Feliks strong connection with his garden: it is the only place in his world in which he truly belongs. Peter is juxtaposed with his fathers choice to isolate himself in his garden,
discuss this statement, focusing on how the composers of texts you have studied represent belonging.
Belonging to a community or a group is essential on someone’s sense of self. Whether it is a sporting team, family, or background, to belong is a human necessity. People want to feel secure, happiness and pride. The poetic series immagrant chronicles by peter skrzynecki portray the sense of belonging or lack of he and his family felt once migrated from Poland to Australia. Only ten by allan Baillie is a short story which represent the ideas of not belonging to a new community after the resettlement in a new foreign country. Escaping from his war torn country, Hussein or “the shah” and his alien like antics are surprising and odd to the school students. After he fails to find anything in common with the kids, he isolates himself. Culturally, these people do not fit in.
Feliks skrzynecki, a poem from the immigrant chronicles series, explores and contrasts the concept of belonging feliks feels, compared to the lack of his son peter feels. Feliks is able to feel a connection to this new place through his garden, and his home. Even tough feliks is separated from his friends back in Poland, he is able to establish another group of friendships through the migrated polish community. From the initial stanza, this aspect of belonging is established.Through the cultural independence of his father, the poet underlines man’s choice in whether he belongs or not. The garden, “loved like an only child”, is a symbol for Poland, the homeland of the persona’s father. This attachment, as the audience is told that the poet’s father has “swept its paths ten times around the world.” Such hyperbole emphasizes Feliks strong connection with his garden: it is the only place in his world in which he truly belongs. Peter is juxtaposed with his fathers choice to isolate himself in his garden,