Significant Factors Influencing an Individual's Sense of Belonging
a) ‘Contact with other people is the most significant factor influencing an individual’s sense of belonging.’ To what extent is this view supported in your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing?
Introduction
Thesis: It is agreeable to a large extent that contact with other people significantly impacts an individual’s sense of belonging through connections and contrastingly, disconnections with the larger world
Texts: This particular sense of belonging is evident through the poems I gave myself to him, The saddest noise, the sweetest noise by Emily Dickinson and Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
Linking: Dickinson and Yen Mah similarly experienced rejection from those around them which has therefore resulted in the lack of belonging identified throughout these texts. These perceptions and ideas are evident in the texts through
Themes: Choices acting a barrier and potential path, negative relationships resulting in a loss of identity and abandonment
Body 1
Point: Choices may cause a barrier but also contrastingly lead a path to belonging which is significantly impacted extensively by contact with others which is explored in the texts I gave myself to him and The saddest noise, the sweetest noise by Emily Dickinson
Explain: The choice made by the protagonist in I gave myself to him to belong to a relationship of investment, emphasises the low value bestowed upon the transaction. The patriarchal society of the protagonists time period emphasises the disappointment of this non-genuine marriage which is furthermore likened to that of a contract
Quote: “The solemn contract of a life was ratified this way”
Technique: This is contradicted as belonging is not achieved through the legalism of a contract, this oxymoron shows that a contracted life is not solemn although perceived that way by the protagonist through their false sense of belonging
Analysis and link: Through the protagonist’s choice of being legally confined to
Introduction
Thesis: It is agreeable to a large extent that contact with other people significantly impacts an individual’s sense of belonging through connections and contrastingly, disconnections with the larger world
Texts: This particular sense of belonging is evident through the poems I gave myself to him, The saddest noise, the sweetest noise by Emily Dickinson and Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
Linking: Dickinson and Yen Mah similarly experienced rejection from those around them which has therefore resulted in the lack of belonging identified throughout these texts. These perceptions and ideas are evident in the texts through
Themes: Choices acting a barrier and potential path, negative relationships resulting in a loss of identity and abandonment
Body 1
Point: Choices may cause a barrier but also contrastingly lead a path to belonging which is significantly impacted extensively by contact with others which is explored in the texts I gave myself to him and The saddest noise, the sweetest noise by Emily Dickinson
Explain: The choice made by the protagonist in I gave myself to him to belong to a relationship of investment, emphasises the low value bestowed upon the transaction. The patriarchal society of the protagonists time period emphasises the disappointment of this non-genuine marriage which is furthermore likened to that of a contract
Quote: “The solemn contract of a life was ratified this way”
Technique: This is contradicted as belonging is not achieved through the legalism of a contract, this oxymoron shows that a contracted life is not solemn although perceived that way by the protagonist through their false sense of belonging
Analysis and link: Through the protagonist’s choice of being legally confined to