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Belonging is usually defined as being accepted into and by members of a family, group, class, race, community or school. The term belonging means something different to everyone but most people will come up with the words acceptance, security and identity. In this speech i will be talking about how a connection with others is vital in shaping an individuals sense of belonging, not only in the novel the simple gift but also in the movie life of pi.
In the book the simple gift billy the main character talks about in his poem longlands road about how run down his house and street was, saying “this place has never looked so rundown and beat. Old bastens truck still on the blocks, the grass unmown around the doors. Mrs Johnston mailbox on the ground after I took to it with a cricket bat last week. And the windows from spencers house still broken from New Years Eve”.
This part of the poem gives the reader a sense that billy isn’t proud or happy that he belonged to this part of town and is desperate to leave, he then indicates by say “my street, my suburb, I take a handful of rocks golf ball size. I walk slowly in the rain the bag on my back, I throw one rock on the roof of each deadbeat no hoper shithole lonely downtrodden house in longlands road, nowheresville” This gives us an idea that Billy has no safe haven. It shows us that Billy’s idea of home is one of embarrassment and shame, and not a sense of comfort. This is reflected in feeling that his identity is missing. Billy doesn’t have strong self- esteem either in his identity so he doesn’t know where he should be.

Billy is lost and due to his alcoholic father he acts in ways like he is alienated and the only way for him to get past this is to try and be accepted within a society outside of his house.
There are a series of events throughout Billy’s life from when he leaves home, as he meets a number of people. Billy feels a level of acceptance for who he is with the girl of his dreams, Catlyin a McDonald’s