Sample Essay Template

Belonging can be beneficial and disadvantageous depending on the individual’s journey. Conformity is necessary in order to gain acceptance to a certain group or to a certain individual. When one’s experience of belonging is positive it can provide them with new option in the world. This can grant new opportunities but can also result in neglecting one’s true identity. A strong concept that is explored within ‘Great Expectations’ (1861) by Charles Dickens is that self-fulfilment can be enrich one’s life and can cause a shift in social economic status, granting one with new opportunities for a sense of belonging. Another critical concept that is evident in ‘Scar’ (2004) by Missy Higgins is that conformity often leads to the redundancy of one’s identity, causing self-destruction

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Idea 1 – Text 1 – STAR
S – Self fulfilment can enrich one’s life and can cause a shift in social economic status, granting one with new opportunities for a sense of belonging.
T – GROUNDED example from that text (remember my father of a goat example)
A – Quotes, Technique, Analysis (ideally 2 bits of textual reference)
R - Self fulfilment can enrich one’s life and can cause a shift in social economic status, granting one with new opportunities for a sense of belonging especially/obviously for Pip. Dickens effectively portrays this aspect of belonging, which is true, not only would this character, but universally.

Idea 1 – Text 2 – STAR
While self-fulfilment can lead to a shift in social economic status this may not be the desire of the person.

Idea 2 – Text 1 – STAR
S – Conformity often leads to the redundancy of one’s identify, causing self destruction.
T – GROUNDED example from that text (remember my father of a goat example)
A – Quotes, Technique, Analysis (ideally 2 bits of textual reference)
R – Conformity often leads to the redundancy of one’s identify, causing self destruction illumitated through Missy Higgins