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    or limit their experience of belonging.’ BY joseph king When an individual’s sense of identity is corrupted through prejudicial attitudes they are left exposed and vulnerable allowing a sense of isolation and displacement in society. An individual’s ability to promote change within is largely influenced by the hardships they experience in their struggle to conform and the connectedness of identity that stems from acceptance. Tara June Winch’s novel Swallow the air‚ adapts the core concept that

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    Where one feels a sense of belonging and connectedness is largely determined by the degree to which an individual feels sense of affinity with those around him. Belonging implies a connectedness to people and places because of shared norms‚ values‚ customs and practices. Belonging also implies relationship‚ which involves a sense of familiarity with and often affection for the people and places we know‚ consequently‚ not belonging often engenders a sense of disorientation‚ rejection‚ despondency

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    Explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places. Perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places and their offers of‚ or lack of‚ the physical‚ emotional or spiritual support. Each place offers or has an absence of support‚ which in turn results in either the feeling of belonging or not belonging. In the three texts; “Swallow The Air” by Tara June Winch‚ the poem “Last of His Tribe”‚ and a Tropfest short film

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    the texts you have studied for belonging explored the concepts of identity and place? Belonging may be a way of acceptance‚ having security‚ fulfillment and/or a connection in association to people‚ places‚ groups‚ communities‚ and the world itself. There are different notions of belonging; however‚ they are recognized in cultural‚ historical‚ personal and social contexts. The poem Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost is a perfect representation of belonging in terms of identity and place

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    The process of belonging occurs when the individual develops relationships with people and challenge themselves to be part of the community and gain experiences which enrich the connections with society. In Jane Harrison’s Rainbow’s End‚ the protagonists struggle to gain a sense of acceptance within the White community but they demonstrate their willingness to challenge the social norms in order to define and protect their Indigenous community. In Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air‚ the protagonist

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    The opening line of swallow the air draws into Mays quest with its controversial and worry-some tone "I remember the day I found out my mother was head sick" In the same paragraph we see Tara using strong emotive language in an attempt to make us sympathise with her mother "Mums sad emerald eyes bled through her black canvas and tortured willow hair." Just from these few lines at the beginning of the story we are already alerted to the profound problems surrounding May‚ penetrating her security.

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    The opening line of Swallow the Air immediately draws us into May’s story with its conversational tone: “I remember the day I found out my mother was head sick.” In the same paragraph strong emotive language positions us as readers to sympathise with May’s mother and her story: “…Mum’s sad emerald eyes bled through her black canvas and tortured willow hair.” In the next chapter the author further uses personal pronouns to position the reader (us) to identify with Aunty and her hilarious battle to

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    Today in this society belonging is one of the essentials we need to survive. We all need to depend on other people and we also seek to be needed. Therefore‚ physically we cannot avoid belonging. However identity‚ relationships and culture as our basic sense to belonging‚ we can choose to reject or to accept these connections. The understanding of these aspects of belonging has been demonstrated in the following texts “The China Coin” by Allan Baillie and “Swallow the Air” by Tara June Winch. Our

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    Belonging is essentially a perspective represented to express a variety of ways in which one can associate within society and themselves. The novel “Swallow the Air” by Tara June Winch‚ the short story extract “Scan” by Manifesto and the poem “Originally” by Carol Ann Duffy are all influenced by the different perspectives through exploring and reflecting upon the meaning that the composers have conveyed. I have viewed vast range of representations of belonging and the use of different forms and features

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    Marianne Rallyo TGE 4 Midterm Paper 29 October 2012 Swallow by Thosapol Boriboon and Inday Vargas by Ahmed Parfan Are you one of those people who loves art so much that you could spend hours studying‚ criticizing and complimenting it? Well‚ I certainly am not one of them. It is not because I hate art‚ but because I am simply uninterested. However‚ if I am to visit a museum‚ art can grasp my attention for a short amount of time‚ but I lose interest when I am not obliged to view them anymore

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