Belonging Speech
Belonging Speech
Belonging is having a feeling of connectedness, or acceptance to other people, places or groups. This enables us to create a sense of identity for ourselves and helps us feel as though we ‘fit in’. In the following texts; Novel, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, film, Bend it Like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha and the song, Teenagers by My Chemical Romance; we can see links between the texts and how the characters feel a sense of belonging and not belonging.
In the first text The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri which is about the Ganguli family, Ashima, Ashoke, Sonia and Gogol, but the story is mainly focused on Ashima and Gogol. In the novel we see the views of Gogol and how he feels about his traditional indian family, and we see Ashima’s views of how Gogol chooses to live in a westernised way.
The type of audience that the Namesake aims at is young adults to adults, people who like reading about the Indian culture,or just like Indian books.
The purpose of this text shows how someone can have a sense of feeling that they don’t belong anywhere, they have to try and find their sense of identity.
The themes and examples of these themes that are present throughout the novel are;
Identity - “He is afraid to be Nikhil, someone he doesn't know. Who doesn't know him […] It's a part of growing up, they tell him, of being a Bengali.”
When Gogol was little, for school his parents wanted to make his official name Nikhil and his pet name Gogol. Gogol didn’t like that, he thought that changing his name would make him completely different. Meaning he would lose his identity.
Family - “He didn't want to go home on the weekends, to go with them to pujos and Bengali parties, to remain unquestionably in their world.”
Gogol doesn’t want to be part of the Ganguli family. He is able to escape from them when he goes off to college or when he moves to a different city for his work.
Foreignness - “Within minutes, before their eyes Ashoke and Ashima slip into bolder,
Belonging is having a feeling of connectedness, or acceptance to other people, places or groups. This enables us to create a sense of identity for ourselves and helps us feel as though we ‘fit in’. In the following texts; Novel, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, film, Bend it Like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha and the song, Teenagers by My Chemical Romance; we can see links between the texts and how the characters feel a sense of belonging and not belonging.
In the first text The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri which is about the Ganguli family, Ashima, Ashoke, Sonia and Gogol, but the story is mainly focused on Ashima and Gogol. In the novel we see the views of Gogol and how he feels about his traditional indian family, and we see Ashima’s views of how Gogol chooses to live in a westernised way.
The type of audience that the Namesake aims at is young adults to adults, people who like reading about the Indian culture,or just like Indian books.
The purpose of this text shows how someone can have a sense of feeling that they don’t belong anywhere, they have to try and find their sense of identity.
The themes and examples of these themes that are present throughout the novel are;
Identity - “He is afraid to be Nikhil, someone he doesn't know. Who doesn't know him […] It's a part of growing up, they tell him, of being a Bengali.”
When Gogol was little, for school his parents wanted to make his official name Nikhil and his pet name Gogol. Gogol didn’t like that, he thought that changing his name would make him completely different. Meaning he would lose his identity.
Family - “He didn't want to go home on the weekends, to go with them to pujos and Bengali parties, to remain unquestionably in their world.”
Gogol doesn’t want to be part of the Ganguli family. He is able to escape from them when he goes off to college or when he moves to a different city for his work.
Foreignness - “Within minutes, before their eyes Ashoke and Ashima slip into bolder,