In Romulus my father Raimond Gaita creatively illustrates the impact our culture and upbringing has on our character and how it slowly but ultimately helps form who we eventually become. Gaita demonstrates how our culture and the way we have been brought up can develop our morals to whom which we live our everyday lives he also shows how both these factors‚ our culture and upbringing help us develop our own sense of belonging and identity. Raimond gives an insight into Romulus’s intriguing
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such as people‚ places and communities. The feeling of connection or relation with these entities is formed from the perception of oneself and the perception of these entities as shaped by historical cultural‚ social‚ and personal context. Romulus my father as a text explores how relationships are affected by inside and outside influences such as changes of context. It also shows how barriers to belonging such as Romulus’s self perception and how others perceived him hindered his ability to feel
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Character Study * Romulus Romulus achieves a sense of belonging to his community through work. It is clear that Romulus feels the way to belong to a community is through hard work and through proving his ‘worth’ to that community. 1950s rural Australia tolerated immigrants‚ however rarely accepted them as individuals and respect usually had to be earned. This understanding of belonging develops Romulus a ‘reputation’ in his community; “his work became admired and his business prospered” (ch
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The importance of the desire to belong can be seen in the texts‚ Romulus My Father by Raimond Gaita‚ Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin and Fiddler On The Roof by Norman Jewison‚ all which explore potential barriers to affinity. These barriers can be described as the inability to make connections due to a different cultural background‚ physical isolation and conflict caused by differing ideals‚ which frustrate one’s
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told the story of his father and his various relationships with the land and the people he interacted with. Similar to Gaita‚ Maria Dell’oso has also written a reflective piece that features anecdotes of her family in different time periods and she has shown the change in their sense of belonging over time also. Both texts share the migrant experience and the hardships that European migrants would have to deal with when they first arrived in a foreign land. In Romulus my father we are repeatedly forced
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Both writers from “Dreams from my Father” and “The Life you Imagine” used various writing strategies to convey their challenges and experiences. To me‚ the strategies both authors used were very effective in getting the point across to their readers. Colloquial language‚ figurative language‚ academic vocabulary and descriptive details are examples of some common strategies they put in place. Jeter used rhetorical questions and colloquial language to convey his experience about his goals and dreams
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support the points raised and provide further examples of belongings complexities the texts Dumb by Nirvana and the film Avatar directed by James Cameron. Firstly‚ in the poem Feliks Skrzynecki the persona describes the father figure as self sufficient in the lines “My gentle father/kept pace only with the Joneses of his own minds making”. This is backed up later in the poem when we learn that Feliks has made no attempt to even learn English. This is the kind of complacency that
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going” (Ty). This is from a survivor of the tragic Cambodian genocide that is explained by Loung Ung in her novel First They Killed My Father. The story goes in depth of her struggles during the genocide being only the age of 5. She puts on a display of strength and perseverance during her journey as a victim of the Khmer Rouge. In the book‚ First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung‚ Ung explores the idea of composure to develop the theme that composure in tense situations will help all push through
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Billy feels distanced from his father‚ school‚ his town and the community. Josie feels different towards her family as she does not relate to her Italian heritage or fit in with her Australian friends either. The aspect of not belonging in Matilda is within her very own family. These
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To belong is something deep comples and one can look at the notion of belonging in many ways and my texts have gained me vast insights into the concepts of belonging such as self belonging‚ belonging to community and the power of belongin to somehting “The crucible” a play written by Arthur miller‚ “The Bra Boy’s” a film biography about the lives of the bra boys surf tribe directed and written by Sunny Abberton and the song “Found” written and performed by the band “Horrorshow” Through the use
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