Peter Skrzynecki Belonging Quotes
Belonging is a feeling of attachment and security which takes time, patience and sometimes is never achieved due to isolation. When humans strive to achieve a sense of belonging they experience an understanding of their identity and the social relationships within their lives. Belonging in the texts Gattaca, My Immigration Story, Jane Eyre and Immigrants Chronicle is designed to highlight the intricate mix of social relationships and the continuous quest for individual identity throughout their stories told.
Peter Skrzynecki struggles to belong through isolation and therefore takes time and patience to feel attachment and security. The Poem St Patricks College written by Peter Skrzynecki clearly emphasises his feelings of not belonging within …show more content…
his time at St Patricks College. This is evident in the third stanza when he says “I caught the 414 bus like a foreign tourist, uncertain of my destinations every time I got off”. By this he means he would never feel secure since he didn’t feel comfort and attachment through the social relationships around him.
He uses a simile to create visual imagery and to help us relate to how he feels.
Skrzynecki also feels isolation and insecurity when he states “Our lady watched with outstretched arms, her face overshadowed by clouds.” He uses negative connotations which are symbolic of an unhappy place. This is also symbolic of his future. Skrzynecki could never belong since he did not create the intricate mix of social relationships and individual identity.
Peter Skrzynecki shows his sense of belonging in the poem 10 Mary Street by feeling attachment and safety over time. 10 Mary Street shows his connection through his childhood home by stating “Like a well-oiled lock, hid the key under a rusty bucket” this shows that through routine and familiarity, he feels security over time. He uses a simile to create an image in the readers mind. Skrzynecki also mentions his attachment to the country when he says “Naturalized more than a decade ago, we became citizens of the soil.” He uses a metaphor to create imagery so that we may visualize the connection between the country and himself. He also feels belonging when he experiences citizenship which shows his connection to social relationships around him. Skrzynecki creates a mix of social relationships around him by becoming a citizen of this country and finds his individual identity through his childhood
home.
The film Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol is about an aerospace firm in the future called the Gattaca Corp. During this time, society analyses DNA and determines where you belong in life. He adopts the identity of a former athlete who has genes that would allow him to achieve his dream of space travel. Vincent shows security when he says “It was the one moment in our lives that my brother was not as strong as he believed and I was not as weak, it was the moment that made everything possible”. Vincent finds comfort through success and pride in himself as he finally proves to himself if he worked hard enough, he would succeed. He uses first person perspective in this dialogue to create an intimate connection with the audience and also uses repetition of “it was the moment” to emphasise the importance of that moment.
Unfortunately, Vincent experiences isolation when he says “to limit the amount of my invalid self to leave in the valid world”. This is said when scrubbing off his own DNA to be replaced with the DNA of the athlete Jerome Murrow. He uses a negative tone to emphasise his feelings of unimportance. For Vincent Freeman, he was to never truly belong due to his own genetics and does not create the intricate mix of social relationships and individual identity. Although he discovers security by finding his individual identity. isolation is shown in Tedtalks speech: My Immigration Story through many techniques used by Tan Le. Tan Le was a migrant that experienced traumatic experiences when migrating from Vietnam to Australia. Tan Le experiences isolation when she was faced with a racist society and cruelty against her cultural background when she says “There were rare but searing chances of slit eye and the occasional graffiti “Asian go home”. Go home to where?”
Tan Le uses a rhetorical question to make the audience think about what she was experiencing. Tan Le unfortunately never felt acceptance in a country other than her own. She shows this when she says “I was chosen as Young Australian of the Year, and I was catapulted from one piece of the jigsaw to another, and their edges didn’t fit”.
She uses metaphors to create visual imagery and to help understand the emotions that she was experiencing. Tan Le strived to achieve security through time and by finding individuals that suited her identity. She creates belonging through social relationships and individual identity.
Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre shows attachment and security over time by overcoming isolation through social relationships and discovering true identity through different stages in her life. Jane experiences trust and security when Mr Rochester and Jane discuss marriage as she says “I have for the first time found what I can truly love, I have found you. You are my sympathy, my better self, my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment”
This shows that she finally has found someone that she feels comfortable with and feel an attachment with than in her childhood when she felt isolation. Bronte uses accumulation to build up the reader’s emotions when she describes Jane’s feelings for Mr Rochester and emotive language to emphasise her love for him.
Jane experiences alienation in her past when Mr Brocklehurst orders Jane to stand on a stool while he tells the school that she is a liar, and forbids the other students to speak to her for the rest of the day as he says "this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien”
Bronte uses descriptive language to entice the reader’s attention and also uses a metaphor to describe Jane as a lost lamb in a flock which emphasises isolation from her peers. Jane did not truly belong in her childhood but through time, experienced security as she creates the mix of individual identity and social relationships.
All 5 of these texts have different background stories to tell but one aspect that stays the same is whether or not they create a mix of social relationships and individual identity to create belonging. Some find attachment and security through time or patience and some struggle to find these feelings due to isolation. Each texts shows the journey of finding belonging, what’s your journey?
Peter Skrzynecki struggles to belong through isolation and therefore takes time and patience to feel attachment and security. The Poem St Patricks College written by Peter Skrzynecki clearly emphasises his feelings of not belonging within …show more content…
his time at St Patricks College. This is evident in the third stanza when he says “I caught the 414 bus like a foreign tourist, uncertain of my destinations every time I got off”. By this he means he would never feel secure since he didn’t feel comfort and attachment through the social relationships around him.
He uses a simile to create visual imagery and to help us relate to how he feels.
Skrzynecki also feels isolation and insecurity when he states “Our lady watched with outstretched arms, her face overshadowed by clouds.” He uses negative connotations which are symbolic of an unhappy place. This is also symbolic of his future. Skrzynecki could never belong since he did not create the intricate mix of social relationships and individual identity.
Peter Skrzynecki shows his sense of belonging in the poem 10 Mary Street by feeling attachment and safety over time. 10 Mary Street shows his connection through his childhood home by stating “Like a well-oiled lock, hid the key under a rusty bucket” this shows that through routine and familiarity, he feels security over time. He uses a simile to create an image in the readers mind. Skrzynecki also mentions his attachment to the country when he says “Naturalized more than a decade ago, we became citizens of the soil.” He uses a metaphor to create imagery so that we may visualize the connection between the country and himself. He also feels belonging when he experiences citizenship which shows his connection to social relationships around him. Skrzynecki creates a mix of social relationships around him by becoming a citizen of this country and finds his individual identity through his childhood
home.
The film Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol is about an aerospace firm in the future called the Gattaca Corp. During this time, society analyses DNA and determines where you belong in life. He adopts the identity of a former athlete who has genes that would allow him to achieve his dream of space travel. Vincent shows security when he says “It was the one moment in our lives that my brother was not as strong as he believed and I was not as weak, it was the moment that made everything possible”. Vincent finds comfort through success and pride in himself as he finally proves to himself if he worked hard enough, he would succeed. He uses first person perspective in this dialogue to create an intimate connection with the audience and also uses repetition of “it was the moment” to emphasise the importance of that moment.
Unfortunately, Vincent experiences isolation when he says “to limit the amount of my invalid self to leave in the valid world”. This is said when scrubbing off his own DNA to be replaced with the DNA of the athlete Jerome Murrow. He uses a negative tone to emphasise his feelings of unimportance. For Vincent Freeman, he was to never truly belong due to his own genetics and does not create the intricate mix of social relationships and individual identity. Although he discovers security by finding his individual identity. isolation is shown in Tedtalks speech: My Immigration Story through many techniques used by Tan Le. Tan Le was a migrant that experienced traumatic experiences when migrating from Vietnam to Australia. Tan Le experiences isolation when she was faced with a racist society and cruelty against her cultural background when she says “There were rare but searing chances of slit eye and the occasional graffiti “Asian go home”. Go home to where?”
Tan Le uses a rhetorical question to make the audience think about what she was experiencing. Tan Le unfortunately never felt acceptance in a country other than her own. She shows this when she says “I was chosen as Young Australian of the Year, and I was catapulted from one piece of the jigsaw to another, and their edges didn’t fit”.
She uses metaphors to create visual imagery and to help understand the emotions that she was experiencing. Tan Le strived to achieve security through time and by finding individuals that suited her identity. She creates belonging through social relationships and individual identity.
Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre shows attachment and security over time by overcoming isolation through social relationships and discovering true identity through different stages in her life. Jane experiences trust and security when Mr Rochester and Jane discuss marriage as she says “I have for the first time found what I can truly love, I have found you. You are my sympathy, my better self, my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment”
This shows that she finally has found someone that she feels comfortable with and feel an attachment with than in her childhood when she felt isolation. Bronte uses accumulation to build up the reader’s emotions when she describes Jane’s feelings for Mr Rochester and emotive language to emphasise her love for him.
Jane experiences alienation in her past when Mr Brocklehurst orders Jane to stand on a stool while he tells the school that she is a liar, and forbids the other students to speak to her for the rest of the day as he says "this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien”
Bronte uses descriptive language to entice the reader’s attention and also uses a metaphor to describe Jane as a lost lamb in a flock which emphasises isolation from her peers. Jane did not truly belong in her childhood but through time, experienced security as she creates the mix of individual identity and social relationships.
All 5 of these texts have different background stories to tell but one aspect that stays the same is whether or not they create a mix of social relationships and individual identity to create belonging. Some find attachment and security through time or patience and some struggle to find these feelings due to isolation. Each texts shows the journey of finding belonging, what’s your journey?