places and events which enrich feelings of acceptance‚ understanding and thus create an identity. Throughout Peter Skrzynecki’s anthology Immigrant Chronicle‚ the poems ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’‚ ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘St Patrick’s College’ explore the multifaceted nature of this innate desire. Whilst Mark Osborne’s claymation More (1998) depicts belonging to society
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How is belonging represented in “migrant hostel”? - Amanda Weekes Belonging is a sense of enlightenment felt when an individual gains an understanding of themselves in relation to others and the wider world. The poem “migrant hostel”‚ written by Peter Shkrzynecki looks at the way in which someone is able to belong to the people in a place without feeling a connection to the place itself. This poem explores both belonging and barriers to belonging through the use of language techniques. These techniques
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A sense of self can emerge where you belong in the world. Peter’s connection to the new world results in a disconnection from a relationship with his father and his Polish heritage in Feliks Skrzynecki. A technique used to show this is irony. Peter struggles to learn Latin but in doing that he forgets his first Polish word‚ a symbolic loss of parent’s heritage‚ this is shown in the last stanza of the poem‚ ‘stumbling over tenses in Caesar’s Gallic War‚ I forgot my first Polish word’. In the first
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The Diary of Anne Frank This journey that Anne Frank encounters was although a short journey had a big affect on her life. A few steps down the road from where she lived had changed her life forever‚ more than she could’ve imagined. Anne Frank was forced to leave her life behind‚ in a time of WW2. The diary of Anne Frank represents an individual strengthened by going on a forced‚ reluctant journey. She’s forced into hiding after living a “spoiled life” with boys from school “admiring her”.
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Belonging is a feeling that everyone wants to experience. We want to feel like we have a place in the world. Just as easily as we can create a sense of belonging with our identity‚ relationships‚ and experiences‚ we can also not belong. However‚ not belonging is not necessarily a choice. There may be specific circumstances that mean that we do not belong to a particular environment. These concepts of belonging are strongly represented in Peter Skrzynecki’s poems‚ Migrant Hostel and St. Patrick’s
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acceptance and identity. Through connections with people‚ place and community‚ shared interactions and events these concepts are revealed. An enriched sense of acceptance can result from interactions with other and the world around them and Peter Skrzynecki portrays this concept well in his poem “Migrant Hostel”. He uses techniques such as similes to describe how it is ‘instinct’‚ to want to experience acceptance and relate to those that have shared experiences or culture‚ “Nationalities sought each
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those unable or unwilling to change their identity. This problematic aspect of belonging features significantly in the poems Feliks Skrzynecki and post card‚ and the song Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. The protagonists of all texts are beset with cultural and familial limitations‚ acting as negative forces that hinder their ability to belong. As seen in Feliks Skrzynecki‚ the generational gap is the ultimate reason Peter Skrzynecki’s cultural belonging is not established to the same extent as his father’s
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Through the analysis and exploring the text "happy feet" by Warren Coleman‚ Old foot by Roy Bradbury and Peter Skrzynecki poems (10 Mary street‚ Felix Skrzynecki) ‚ a vast array of representation of the concept of belonging. The abundance of idea’s from the text explore the concepts through it paradoxes and it’s thesis. Firstly‚ in Felix Skrzynecki the father figure is describe as a self sufficient person "my gentle father/the joneses of his own minds making" this can be back up later as we learn
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and our environment. A sense of both positive and negative concepts of belonging can be seen quite clearly in three poems from Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle‚ ’Feliks Skrzynecki’‚ ‘Ancestors’ and ‘Migrant Hostel’ as well as characters‚ Farhad‚ Cameron and Jean from the film‚ ‘Crash.’ In the poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki‚’ it is clear that Peter’s father‚ Feliks does not belong as he is of Polish heritage and has chosen not to assimilate with Australian culture. This can also be seen with a Persian
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we are so obsessed with the destination that we neglect to see the process that takes us there‚ the thrills of the unpredictable journey and the things we learn from both the positive and negative challenges we face. Similarly‚ the poet‚ Peter Skrzynecki documents the importance of the physical journey as a learning experience in his poem‚ "crossing the red sea". His recounts shows us how even though we may focus on the destination‚ it is not until later in life‚ we may reflect back on how important
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