The Arrival‚ by Shaun Tan‚ is a book that I found to be very interesting. I have never read a book without words before‚ so this was a new experience for me. During the times I read it‚ evaluated it‚ took notes on it‚ and read it again‚ I questioned how something so complex could be a part of children’s literature. I began to ask myself what age group would be able to look at this book and understand the story within. Children’s literature is usually seen as simple‚ straight forward‚ and easy to
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home as his wife and children do. Children become the victims of suburbia because once they enter adulthood they know nothing other than the bubble they were raised under. Shaun Tan’s image supports the negative suburban myth that suburbia isolates the people living inside while also burdening to outsiders. Shaun tan created an image that shows two boys sitting along the edge of a colossal wall. This wall takes up almost the entire picture leaving
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story of a curious boy who discovers a gigantic‚ red‚ machine-like animal that appears to be lost. The boy pities this “lost thing” and therefore‚ decides that it is his personal responsibility to attempt to find out where this creature belongs. Shaun Tan wrote this book primarily to entertain and amuse his audience; however‚ he also included various controversial comments on the power of bureaucracy and various other social concerns. Although‚ the simple sentences and an even simplistic storyline
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“More than anything else‚ belonging is about finding a sense of place in the world.” Do you agree? Argue your point of view‚ referring to Shaun Tan’s “The Lost Thing”. Achieving a sense of place in the world‚ mentally and physically‚ allows an individual to feel an awareness of belonging - a feeling unobtainable through little else. Places where imagination and distinctiveness are condemned force those who adapt to live a dull reality that holds no challenges or freedom of thought. Minority groups
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Related Text Rationale Title of text The Red Tree Composer/Director Shaun Tan Text Type Picture Book Brief Synopsis of Plot The Red Tree by Shaun Tan is a picture book following the day of a young girl who finds herself walking through a vast variety of scenes and landscapes Main thematic concerns and big ideas in the text The story line follows a young girl going through scenes‚ with scarce amounts of wording on each page. Each picture has a visual representation and meaning behind it‚ creating
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Shaun Tan once said “You know it’s not real‚ but you can’t help but be drawn into the reality of it”. His picture book ‘The Lost Thing’ reflects on this statement; you know that the storybook world Tan has created is not in the slightest bit real‚ but if you look closer you can start relating it to your real life. This is shown in the way the main character has been presented as well as the lost thing‚ the reader can relate to both of these characters either by being lost or finding something lost
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Opening: 5 The Rabbits’ is a picture book addressing the suffering the aboriginals experienced at the time of European colonization. The ‘Rabbits’ presents these issues in such a way that it a story for all ages. To being with the prominent part of the portrait is the white settler’s perception which is observed unmistakably in first glimpse‚ the picture of the striking sunset‚ buildings and houses serenely assembles next to one another. It is the aboriginal’s viewpoint being the truth is shown
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At first in the passage‚ Tan presents us her thoughts about English that creates a judgement base on their ways of speaking. When she is in a group of different people her English is lot different than the way she talks with her mother. Similarly‚ the way her mother talks to her she would understand but when her mother talk to someone they wouldn’t understand her “broken” English. Tan stated that the circumstances and struggles when her mother was ignored because how the way she speaks was not understandable
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suburbia by Shaun Tan (Short Story): Belonging ‘Tales from outer suburbia’ by Shaun Tan starts off as a collection of 15 prose short stories with illustrations‚ but it soon begins to adopt more and more aspects of comics. The pictures stop illustrating the story and quickly become integral to telling the story and several points through the book the prose and the pictures combines splendidly. It’s not an illustrated children’s book‚ nor is it a comic. It’s somewhere in between. Shaun Tan draws a mirror
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English speech on belonging Everyone has a unique sense of belonging and identity. Our sense of identity is shaped within personal‚ cultural‚ historical context over a long period of time. That’s why we prefer our own identity over anyone else’s. We reject a forced identity and take risks to find the place where we truly belong. We engage with the world in search for a better understanding of our true identity. Good morning teachers and fellow students‚ it is an honour to stand before you toady
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