AREA OF STUDY BELONGING FOCUS TEXT: THE SIMPLE GIFT What you must do in this Area of Study: • Develop a personalised detailed appreciation of the concept of belonging. • Closely analyse HOW your set text‚ Herrick’s The Simple Gift‚ SHAPES your understanding of belonging. • Select and study at least three other texts (broaden your search beyond poetry) which further your perception of the WHAT (ideas) and the HOW (techniques including form‚ language and structure) of belonging
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circumstances‚ ultimately resulting in a positive action and outcome. This is clearly demonstrated in the prescribed text‚ The Simple Gift by Stephen Herrick as we see the unlikely friendship and bond develop between the characters‚ Billy and Old Bill and the passionate relationship that forms between Billy and Caitlin. In this text‚ Herrick uses extensive amounts of literary techniques to describe feelings‚ ideas and representations to illustrate the complexity of belonging and how adversity and circumstances
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made by a place‚ person‚ group‚ communities and the larger world. Struggle is represented through Steven Herrick’s free-verse novel ‘The Simple Gift’ and related text ‘Fast Car’ a song performed by Tracy Chapman. These texts can connect how the struggle to belong and find one’s place is important in the lives of some people. Steven Herrick’s ‘The Simple Gift’ demonstrates the elements of struggle to belong and acceptance through pain and surrounding of rejection‚ homelessness and dealing with
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on belonging‚ as understood from Steven Herrick’s the Simple Gift: - It is the similar needs & desires (e.g. love‚ happiness) of Caitlin‚ Billy & Old Bill that draw them together to create their sense of belonging - The recurring symbol of "gift" signifies both giving and receiving‚ which are both aspects of belonging (as seen in marriages‚ when both partners give & receive and therefore find belonging together) - The Simple Gift explores the idea of identity‚ particularly as Caitlin
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The Simple Gift – Steven Herrick Chapter Summary Chapter 1: Champagne Billy Champagne Billy packing his school bag with his personal things and plans to run away from home. Billy takes his dads cigarettes and champagne. Kiss The Dog Billy is sitting on the veranda with his dog ‘Bunkbrain’. Billy wants to bring ‘Bunkbrain’ with him because he reckons no one “deserves to stay in this dump”. But bringing a dog would cause many inconveniences. Billy takes off. Longlands Road Billy walking
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Gifts Essay The reason why I chose the two pictures with the food‚ is because in the essay Emerson stated that “Food is one of the necessities that we need in order to survive.” And he also said that “It is also important to the giver and the person who is receiving it. Emerson also stated that “Food is a way to say welcome and food has that balance.” Emerson also states in the essay that “Food is a reward.” In the first paragraph‚ in the middle of the second sentence‚ Emerson said “I do not think
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Belonging – The simple gift and Drifters An individual’s experience of belonging is invariably affected by their previous encounters with their environment and the people with whom they interact. This is clearly presented within the texts analysed. In the novel “The Simple Gift” by Steven Herrick the author successfully demonstrates the power of past experiences to both limit and enrich an individual’s sense of belonging to both their surroundings and influential people. Similarly in the poem
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people and the world. As we develop the understanding and acceptance‚ this allows us to feel belonging. The texts that I have studied have all explored how both understanding and the lack of understanding can impact on ones sense of belonging. "The Simple Gift"‚ a narrative poem by Stephen Herrick’s demonstrates elements of belonging‚ understanding and acceptance through the pain and suffering of rejection and homelessness faced by the characters Billy‚ Caitlin and Old Bill. Additionally in the film “Freedom
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Imagine‚ if you will‚ a gift. I’d like for you to picture in your mind. It’s not too big. About the size of a golf ball. So in vision what it looks like all wrapped up. But before I show you what’s inside‚ I will tell you that’s going to do incredible things for you. It will bring all of your family together‚ you will feel loved and appreciated like never before. And reconnect friends and acquaintances you haven’t heart from in years. Adoration and admiration will overwhelm
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finding a true sense of belonging being the most important thing‚ but I feel that you might as well conform in society then be enlightened and go through sadness and alienation. My texts Steven Herrick‚ The Simple Gift‚ Jeannie Bakers Window and Mark Waters mean Girls. Steven Herrick’s The Simple Gift is a verse novel that looks at belonging to family and the community. Billy the 16 year old boy leaves his home and says goodbye to his family aiming to look for some place better‚ for belonging and happiness
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