Peter Skrzynecki Shaun Tan Postcard and Feliks Skrzynecki, the Arrival Belonging
We find belonging most importantly in our family. Discuss. (Prescribed texts and related)
A sense of belonging is the feeling of being accepted or connected to something or someone. One can find belonging within family, through shared experiences, notions of identity, forming relationships, and culture. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems “Postcard” (PC) and “Feliks Skrzynecki” (FS), alongside Shaun Tan’s silent graphic novel ‘The Arrival’ (TA), work together to convey this idea, through a range of language forms and visual techniques.
“It is place that that shapes our identity”. Discuss.
Family is a fundamental concept in terms of finding a sense of belonging as it develops relationships between people and the culture they are grown among. Peter Skrzynecki explores this in ‘FS’ by emphasizing the strong connection between the persona’s father, Feliks and his ‘garden’, depicting a child-like sense of jealousy. Despite this, the poet uses a positive illustration to describe him as ‘gentle’, paradoxical words of ‘Alert, brisk and silent,’ reinforce Feliks’ ‘mind’s…’ strength of not being driven by images of status and money. In addition, the nostalgic tone presented through, ‘reminisced/About farms…’ highlights that their agricultural background is what the father and son had in common and indicates how the migrants are bound together by their shared history. Henceforth, responders are able to understand the concept of belonging through the persona’s relationship with his father and culture, and the experiences they share together.
Skrzynecki establishes a sense of isolation, as the persona disengages himself from the community and family into which he has naturally attained. For example, he uses a formal address to introduce his father, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’. Also, the use of historical and personal references, ‘teases/ Gallic War’ and forgetting his ‘first polish word’ amplifies a perpetual notion of disassociation from his father’s world. Although, a paradox is
A sense of belonging is the feeling of being accepted or connected to something or someone. One can find belonging within family, through shared experiences, notions of identity, forming relationships, and culture. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems “Postcard” (PC) and “Feliks Skrzynecki” (FS), alongside Shaun Tan’s silent graphic novel ‘The Arrival’ (TA), work together to convey this idea, through a range of language forms and visual techniques.
“It is place that that shapes our identity”. Discuss.
Family is a fundamental concept in terms of finding a sense of belonging as it develops relationships between people and the culture they are grown among. Peter Skrzynecki explores this in ‘FS’ by emphasizing the strong connection between the persona’s father, Feliks and his ‘garden’, depicting a child-like sense of jealousy. Despite this, the poet uses a positive illustration to describe him as ‘gentle’, paradoxical words of ‘Alert, brisk and silent,’ reinforce Feliks’ ‘mind’s…’ strength of not being driven by images of status and money. In addition, the nostalgic tone presented through, ‘reminisced/About farms…’ highlights that their agricultural background is what the father and son had in common and indicates how the migrants are bound together by their shared history. Henceforth, responders are able to understand the concept of belonging through the persona’s relationship with his father and culture, and the experiences they share together.
Skrzynecki establishes a sense of isolation, as the persona disengages himself from the community and family into which he has naturally attained. For example, he uses a formal address to introduce his father, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’. Also, the use of historical and personal references, ‘teases/ Gallic War’ and forgetting his ‘first polish word’ amplifies a perpetual notion of disassociation from his father’s world. Although, a paradox is