In Romulus my father Raimond Gaita creatively illustrates the impact our culture and upbringing has on our character and how it slowly but ultimately helps form who we eventually become. Gaita demonstrates how our culture and the way we have been brought up can develop our morals to whom which we live our everyday lives he also shows how both these factors‚ our culture and upbringing help us develop our own sense of belonging and identity. Raimond gives an insight into Romulus’s intriguing
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Character Study * Romulus Romulus achieves a sense of belonging to his community through work. It is clear that Romulus feels the way to belong to a community is through hard work and through proving his ‘worth’ to that community. 1950s rural Australia tolerated immigrants‚ however rarely accepted them as individuals and respect usually had to be earned. This understanding of belonging develops Romulus a ‘reputation’ in his community; “his work became admired and his business prospered” (ch
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The importance of the desire to belong can be seen in the texts‚ Romulus My Father by Raimond Gaita‚ Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin and Fiddler On The Roof by Norman Jewison‚ all which explore potential barriers to affinity. These barriers can be described as the inability to make connections due to a different cultural background‚ physical isolation and conflict caused by differing ideals‚ which frustrate one’s
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told the story of his father and his various relationships with the land and the people he interacted with. Similar to Gaita‚ Maria Dell’oso has also written a reflective piece that features anecdotes of her family in different time periods and she has shown the change in their sense of belonging over time also. Both texts share the migrant experience and the hardships that European migrants would have to deal with when they first arrived in a foreign land. In Romulus my father we are repeatedly forced
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notion of belonging in many ways and my texts have gained me vast insights into the concepts of belonging such as self belonging‚ belonging to community and the power of belongin to somehting “The crucible” a play written by Arthur miller‚ “The Bra Boy’s” a film biography about the lives of the bra boys surf tribe directed and written by Sunny Abberton and the song “Found” written and performed by the band “Horrorshow” Through the use of lyrics‚ quotes‚ themes a dramatic techniques have each allowed
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Billy feels distanced from his father‚ school‚ his town and the community. Josie feels different towards her family as she does not relate to her Italian heritage or fit in with her Australian friends either. The aspect of not belonging in Matilda is within her very own family. These
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support the points raised and provide further examples of belongings complexities the texts Dumb by Nirvana and the film Avatar directed by James Cameron. Firstly‚ in the poem Feliks Skrzynecki the persona describes the father figure as self sufficient in the lines “My gentle father/kept pace only with the Joneses of his own minds making”. This is backed up later in the poem when we learn that Feliks has made no attempt to even learn English. This is the kind of complacency that
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a sense of acceptance and understanding between not only themselves but also place and others. The theme of belonging and not belonging can be explored through the connections a composer has between themselves‚ people and places. Belonging is the topic area for many of Peter Skrzynecki’s poems such as; ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘St. Patrick’s College’
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and finds contentment in the simple things‚ “Watching the stars and street lights come on‚ / Happy as I have never been.” This is quite a surprising yet strong statement‚ which suggests that the persona envies his father because he has never felt this contentment and fulfillment. Father and son perceive their attachment to place very differently “The wind tastes of blood” which express that only blood connection with their past‚ so they can’t identity and understand where they belonging
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feel a connection with something. A sense of belonging or not belonging can produce a strong emotional response within us. The poems Feliks Skrzynecki‚ St Patricks College and Postcard by Peter Skyrzynecki adopt the common themes of alienation and hope for a brighter future. The theme of alienation is more decisively depicted in the poems Feliks Skrzynecki and St Patricks college‚ in which the persona is in a continuos battle to find his true identity and in doing so ‘let his light shine’. On the other
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