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Even though Walt from “Gran Torino” by Clint Eastwood dislikes the Hmong people living next door, he develops a friend like relationship with the neighbour’s son Thao. Walt takes Thao to get him a job in an industry that he would be good at, working as a builder. A wide camera angle shot shows Thao and Walt in the same frame. Although Walt is seen as a dominant figure, the viewers see the significance of the scene where the different races and the generations are shown association. This is seen as a culture acceptance. Therefore, Walt belonging evolves as he interacts with the Hmong people and accepts Thao as a friend.

Then again, Jing Mei Woo in “The Joy Luck Club” realises that she deeply attached to her cultural background and can sense the feeling to belong. Jing Mei’s connection to her cultural is outlined by a strong statement: "The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different. I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course, my bones aching with a familiar old pain. And I think, my mother was right. I am becoming Chinese." Through use of sensory imagery "I feel different. I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course, my bones aching with a familiar old pain.” The sensory imagery of “feel” explains that Jing-Mei feels the change of belonging to her culture. By the use of short sentences "I feel different." Jing-Mei feels the change immediately. It is a part with in her that transits this change. Metaphor is used in "I am becoming Chinese." Even though her ethnicity is Chinese at first she does not accept her culture but now she immerses herself to belong. Therefore, Jing Mei belonging evolves in response to interacting herself to her Chinese culture.