The two poems by Peters Skrzynecki, “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “10 Mary Street” paint a picture of a migrant family where the father and son have different perceptions of their belonging as a result of their different cultural experiences. In addition, their feelings about belonging change over time. This changing sense of belonging is conveyed effectively through a variety of poetic devices such as: imagery, metaphors, similes and hyperboles.…
It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native…
He expresses the emotion of the immigrants in his words. The author is trying to express his support to the immigrants who get the benefits of it. He…
The mural painted by an artist shows a Hispanic man who’s going to war with other Hispanic men a few feet above him on horses. The man holds a weapon and a flag which resembles his country. His expression is nowhere near fear instead it’s courage and commitment on what he’s going to do. There’s a title stating “La Revolucion Mexicana” that translates to The Mexican Revolution that happened in Mexico. Then a phrase “I rather die on my feet than live on my knees” is a metaphor of what the man in the painting had to say. In relations to an image, this painting signifies a protest from the Hispanic…
Through critical and hopeful tone and uses of symbolism and imagery, Esperanza Cordero shows practice of art, whether it's painting or writing, can help to get through hardship, in The House on Mango Street. Esperanza uses symbolism and imagery to show the hardship she faced and to prove how she was…
The film portrays Mariana, the female protagonist’s quick fall into poverty with her two young children. Over the course of a summer, Mariana loses her apartment and is homeless and desperate to take care of her children. Her husband’s friends effectively avoid her and leave her isolated with no knowledge of English or means to support herself. Mariana’s story is about the lack of support single immigrant women receive in terms of housing, health, childcare, and employment services. The film also shows the undue burden that Mariana’s children pose to her. Childcare almost always falls on the backs of women, especially immigrant women. Her children are precious to her, but she has a harder time finding employment because she cannot leave her young children alone. This time in their lives is a transformative moment for the…
Effect: emphasises the absence of a stanle fixed home for the migrants. They feel they do not belong in their current location. They are also “uncertain” about their furutre “track”.…
“Occupy Photo 1” is a picture of an older woman holding a sigh that states “No more corruption, get corporate money out of law making” a mid-twenties Caucasian male with a sign that reads “I can’t afford a lobbyist I am the 99%” and another mid-twenties Caucasian male on his cellphone.…
her nose is long and is a very prominent feature on her face. Her head is covered with a scarf and her hair is partially showing. Furthermore, at the bottom left corner of the photograph, another exhausted and lethargic woman is sitting while holding firmly another sleeping child in her lap. She seems to be looking directly at three sleeping children at far back, concerned about their safety and comfort. The woman’s head is covered with a blue cloth. The child in her lap has curly and brown hair. The morning sky gradient in this picture adds a further depth and meaning of hope to the image that it’s not over yet and a new beginning, a fresh start is on it’s way. All these refugees are probably resting, seeking peace and comfort in the hope of better future. The overall photograph represent a hard and rough journey that they have gone through and still have to go a long way before they reach their finial…
Bruce Dawe’s poem, migrants, portrays a long quest from the perspective of a migrant group. This group is acknowledged as ‘they’ were met with indifferences from the local people. ‘They’ react to this treatment with confusion and surprise which is evident in the line ‘indifference surprised them’. This creates a sense of ambiguity and lack of identity. The text portrays a physical journey between continents. This is evident ‘in the fourth week the sea dropped away and they were there…’ which contains features of imagery, pronouns and ellipsis. The imagery used appeals to an audiences visual senses and creates an atmosphere while the ellipsis gives the sense of ambiguity and evokes attentiveness in the audience. Pronouns evoked in the poem allows the theme to be easily accessed by the audience by suggesting the migrants have a lack of identity as a result of leading their homeland and travelling for a long period.…
When people do not spend a lot of time in one place, they never really feel like they belong. In the first stanza of migrant hostel, hyperbole is used to provide an example of how the immigrants do not belong to the hostel. “Sudden departments…left us wondering who would be coming next”. This is an over exaggeration of interpreting the feelings of the immigrants of alienation, whom struggle to belong as everyone comes and goes and is not a unified community.…
There is a streak going across sky, cutting through the pictorial plane. The orbs of light floating in the background are most likely the traffic lights. The placement of the lights suggests the busy street due to traffic along with the simple outline of a car in red to her right. By being evicted, the woman is more or less thrown into a chaotic world outside of her home. The signs to her left seem to float without being attached to any particular building behind her. The bending skyscrapers might indicate the disorientated feeling one develops while looking up at them. They also seem to move in a menacing way as if they are taunting her. The red skyscraper on the right side appears to cut through the row of houses, showing how the city is changing, making room for new development. Overall The Eviction shows a woman going through a life event that left her without a place to…
Not belonging often goes hand in hand with feelings of despair, unease and uncertainty. “Migrant Hostel” demonstrates this feeling of angst and instability when the migrants are placed in an uninviting environment where fear of immigrants is predominant. The migrants’ insecurity and confusion is displayed through the rhetorical ‘who would be coming next’ in the first stanza. Furthermore, the fact that the stanza begins with “no one kept count” sets an ominous tone reflective of the hostile atmosphere of the foreign country, further underscoring their disorientation from being detached from a sense of a home and security. Moreover, the “comings and goings”, “arrivals of newcomers in busloads” and “sudden departures from adjoining blocks” uphold the motif of transience which permeates the poem, drawing attention to the state of instability, uncertainty and flux the migrants experience from being excluded.…
In another editorial cartoon, “How immigrants could really ruin our quality of life…” Alcaraz shows an Anglo couple wearing casual clothing with surprised faces. On the other side, you see an illegal couple. The man is wearing a long sleeve shirt and a hat to protect him from the sun. The women is wearing a maid uniform while caring a baby and screaming at the same time at her partner, “DO IT YOURSELF”, with an angry look in their faces . In between these two couples there is a pile of stuff. There are trash cans, bag of leaves, and a pile of dirty…
Immigrants are torn by contradictory social and intellectual demands, while facing the confront of entry into a strange intimidating environment. The migratory progression, for whatever the reason, seems to improve the sense of harmony among those who migrate, who are often united by ties of affiliation, community and customs, as well as class. Symbols of ethnicity, such as language and religious behavior serve as reminders of their origin to the migrants themselves, while at the same time marking these people as outsiders in their new locale. Some migrants make a conscious decision to abandon an old unsatisfactory way of life for what they believe will be paradise on earth, land of the free, the place to find the American dream, never thinking about why or what the leave behind.…