Migrant Hostel Skrzynecki Analysis

Physical Journey’s often involve choices being made when individuals encounter obstacles or move to new places.
Discuss the significance of the concept of choice in relation to your exploration of physical Journeys and its impact on your thinking.
- Migrant Hostel
- Leaving Home
- Feliks Skrzynecki
Choices are an un-avoidable fact of human life. Typically, a physical journey changes our views, challenges our thinking, broadens our understanding, and through this, expands our knowledge of life. Through various literary techniques, Peter Skrzynecki successfully portrays all elements of a physical in his poems Migrants Hostel, Leaving Home and Feliks Skrzynecki. In today’s society people are not always aware of the consequences, or degree of consequences, that come about as a result of their actions. The concept of choice forces us to consider the elements behind a physical journey and the net benefit of our actions.
Migrants Hostel depicts the notions of ‘choice’ and successfully portrays the consequences of freedom. In this poem the migrants are challenged through the hardships they face as they leave their familiar grounds for the new and
This simile is a constant reminder of their separation and rejection from society, alienating them from the new world. The ambiguous nature at this point in the migrants journey is given when Skrzynecki states ‘That had only just begun or were dying’. Initially, the migrants were treating the migrant hostel as a prison, an inescapable trap that was preventing them from any form of acknowledgement in society. Through choice, pessimism turns into optimism as the migrants claim the hostel to be the temporary ‘home’. The concept of choice is dealt with in the migrants change in perspective as they choose to accept the fact that they could be obtained for some