Individual Text Record Sheet for AOS: Belonging Title: Looking for Alibrandi Composer: Melina Marchetta Form and text type: Novel Publication date: 1992 Context: Set in 1992‚ Sydney‚ Australia‚ surrounding the secluded Italian community. Audience: Young adults Purpose: To educate young adults on the stresses and losses of life and how‚ through reflection‚ they can set you free. Brief synopsis of text: Looking for Alibrandi focuses on one girl and the shame her family’s indiscretions have
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of belonging and not belonging occur within place‚ family‚ community and culture. The first stanza emphasizes the idea of belonging. Feliks sets standards ’of his own minds making’. He is comfortable in belonging to his own world‚ his garden‚ family and cultural heritage. This is further emphasized through the use of the simile ’ loved his garden like an only child’ which exemplifies the love he possessed for his garden. The garden can also be interpreted as Feliks constructed world: a place he
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‘Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people‚ although many don’t seem to realize it‚ stuck as they are in the wrong job‚ the wrong marriage‚ or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature‚ you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.’ Benjamin Hoff Discuss this statement‚ focusing on how composers of texts represent the concept of belonging. In your answer‚ refer to your prescribed text (‘Romulus My Father’) and ONE related text of your
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Both Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Immigrant Chronicle’ and Gabriele Muccino’s The Pursuit of Happiness represent the need for belonging through a character’s place and interpret the general need for place in belonging. Within ‘Immigrant Chronicle’‚ Skrzynecki’s poems ’10 Mary Street’ and ‘Migrant Hostel’ particularly demonstrate the positive and negative effects place can have on one’s ability to belong. ’10 Mary Street’ deals with a younger Skrzynecki’s experiences living within his working class family
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there‚ gazing upon the gentle planet that the deity’s society had named Earth. Lonely‚ he began to conjure a wheel of fire with his fingers to play with. Behind‚ hiding in the dry trees stood a human-like figure with blue eminence from its eyes. The place he lived in was Valhalla‚ the realm of the Gods‚ an intense dimension that was fashioned for the prosperity of higher beings. This forlorn god sitting alone‚ intriguing himself with a few flames; is the Prince of Blazes‚ Fenrir. Fenrir was clad in
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Importance of Securing your Belongings The bachelor enlisted quarters order says it plain and simple. While a Marines room is not in use all his/her personal belongings are to be secured in a wall locker and or secretary. The rooms hatch and head door will also remain secured as well. There are no reasons or exceptions to this for it is an order and disciplinary action can be a definite result of failing to do so. i.e.: writing a one page essay on the subject. NCOs in any command‚ company‚
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that happens and it can’t be stopped. It can either conclude in a negative or positive way. Some people can’t handle the adjustment and they can suffer severe consequences. Others can handle the adjustment and they achieve a personal growth within themselves. In the compelling novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ written by Melina Marchetta‚ Josephine Alibrandi is a typical immature teenager‚ struggling to deal with the responsibilities and cultural pressures place upon her by her peers and family. Josephine
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Belonging is a complex perception informed by an individual’s understanding of their own identity‚ and their connections with other people and places. As such it is an intensely personal and subjective concept; Raimond Gaita’s memoir ‘Romulus‚ My Father’ represents belonging as a perception closely interrelated with one’s identity and wellbeing. Similarly‚ Penn’s 2007 film ‘Into the Wild’ and Judith Wright’s poem ‘Nigger’s Leap‚ New England’ explore the wider significance of belonging on a socio-cultural
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“Father‚ why did you join the war?” *** The sun rose proudly as the morning clouds parted revealing the stairs to what seemed like heaven as I glanced through my office window. The light slowly uncovered the field outside as the men marched uniformly while I saluted to my countries flag that stood high above foreign soil. *** My father focused on the horizon through the morning dew that covered the kitchen window. His hands fidgeting with the cross that hanged from his neck. With a small glimpse
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inspire the uninspirable‚ and to expose a true sense of belonging that is neither superficial nor false. Ladies and Gentlemen would you say belonging is fundamental to all human beings‚ including yourself? Macquarie dictionary defines belonging as ‘happiness felt in a secure relationship’ but in reality‚ belonging is a precursor to knowing and accepting one’s self. Through comparing different texts I have come to the realisation that a sense of belonging comes from a sense of identity‚ both cultural and
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