1. Farm Communities- Farming Families that worked together to accomplish goals otherwise not possible alone. (B) They had opportunities to talk about experiences together, and share news, knowledge, etc.…
Point: the poem opens with a positive description of Peter Skrzynecki’s father and his detachment from the consumer competitiveness of his neighbours. His home is the garden…
Ambiguous-loved it like it was an only child then it mean he showed the garden a lot of attention, loved it.…
“She was always glad to show the art of gardening and harvesting to young people.” (Broker 45) This quote shows a grandma teaching her grandchild how to farm. It’s important because it is vital to their way of life. This is also important because later on the grandchild eventually has to make a garden.…
The use of simile “loved his garden like an only child “indicates that Feliks belongs to his garden ,which demonstrates the importance of gardening to Feliks identity it also suggest a distance between the father and son, as peter feels the garden belongs in his father’s life in way that peter cant that shows a sense of sadness.…
The first stanza emphasizes the idea of belonging. Feliks sets standards 'of his own minds making'. He is comfortable in belonging to his own world, his garden, family and cultural heritage. This is further emphasized through the use of the simile ' loved his garden like an only child' which demonstrates the love he possessed for his garden. The garden can also be interpreted as Feliks constructed world: a place he escapes to in order to feel a sense of belonging. The garden is also the reward for his hard work.…
The garden is an important aspect of their lives, where the poet’s parents “watered plants - grew potatoes... like adopted children”, stressing their strong connection to their home. To Peter, a child himself, the garden is a source of nourishment, and he ravages it “like a hungry bird”, eating from its fruit until he is “bursting at the seams”; a colloquial term that reinforces the sense of change and assimilation.…
Themes in the novel “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver include the importance of family and the need for community as emotional support systems for individuals facing hardships. As the individuals face their hardships, Kingsolver binds them together with support, forming a community that at times functions like a big extended family, however non-traditional it may be. Kingsolver not only illustrates the importance of family as an emotional support system in today's society, but the changing face of the family unit itself, one that is defined more by love than by structure.…
Shared experience can bring about an understanding of the past which can help an individual find a sense of belonging. Shared experience can come from past historical events, places or people which can lead to a common understanding. The poem “Feliks Skrzynecki: by Peter Skrzynecki is a poem that explores the relationship between the poet and his father contrasts the shared experiences of belonging in a new land. The poet’s father struggles to find his sense of belonging outside his carefully nurtured garden which he chooses to stay inside the boundaries of. “Loved his garden like an only child,” This use of simile emphasise the love he had for his garden and the importance of what the garden means to him. Feliks garden to him represents the past and his past life back in Poland and his understanding of the vast farmlands and garden back where he used to belong. The garden in the poem represents the acceptance of one’s past through shared experiences.…
-No one in England knows what this is like. If they could see the way these men live they would not believe their eyes. This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.…
Kinship systems in Foraging and Horticultural based societies provide support for people in all stages of their life. Address the following in a two- to three-page paper:…
“At this point in the continuing evolution of our country and of the human race, we urgently need to stop thinking of ourselves as victims and to recognize that we must each become a part of the solution because we are each a part of the problem.” (These Are the Times to Grow Our Souls)…
Kindred represents cultural contact and exchange because an African American woman from the 1970s is forced to adapt to life in the 19th century with other slaves. Her own culture is dramatically different from the culture of Tom Weylin’s slaves. Dana is used speaking to white people as her equals and not as threatening superiors; she is used to exercising her rights to simply do as she pleases, which includes wearing pants and writing novels. The black people who she encounters in the past are slaves, so their culture has developed through oppression and submission; the women only wear dresses or skirts, and all of the slaves are to obey the orders given to them by whites, which include working for long hours in hot or cold weather.…
Early on in the passage the author talks about the cherry tree garden as if it were his own child, as if it was something to be proud of. For example “Used to be a cherry tree in the garden, wasn’t no, well arranged blossom bedded softly shaded, garden” is an excellent example…