Belonging

YEAR 12 ASSESSMENT A.O.S=] BELONGING “HUMAN BEINGS ARE PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH BELONGING” *SKRZYNECKI DEPICTS AND EXPLORES THE MANY HARDSHIPS AND EMOTIONAL CAHLLENGES THAT MIGRANTS [LIKE HIS FAMILY] STRUGGLE TO ADJUST TO NEW CUTURAL ENVIRONMENT. DAUNTING CHANGES THAT ARE PHYSICAL, PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC THREATEN TO OVERWHELM THOSE WHO HAVE EXCHANGED THEIR FAMILIAR WORLD’S ON ONE SIDE OF THE WORLD FOR ANOTHER THAT SEEMS UNFATHOMABLE AND FOREIGN. An ALLEGIANCE TO TIES OF FAMILY, RELIGION AND CULTURE *Have BEEN* SACRIFICED FOR DREAMS OF NEW OPPORTUNTIES AND NEW BEGNINGS.* SKRZYNECKI ALSO CONVEYS THAT ARRIVALS IN A NEW LAND IS *traumatic *AND SURPRISING FOR MOST FAMILIES IT CAN ALSO GENERATE CONFLICTS AND *DRAMA “for* the moment I repeat*, I never knew you, let me be” METAPHORICALLY* ILLUMINATED IN THE POEM BY THE REPEATING MOTIF OF IMPRISOMENT. THE POEM ‘’ 10 MARY ST’’, THE COMPOSER FELIKS DEMONSTRATES THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE OF HIM FAILING TO BELONG OR SOCIALLY ACCEPTED, BY HIS FAMILY AND THE INDUSTRY DESTROYING HIS HOME* “the whole block been gazette for industry”* CREATING THE SENSE OF DISPLACEMENT FOR HISFAMILY AND FOR HIM. SKRZYNECKI HIGHLIGHTS HOW HIS FAMILY AND HIM HAD LIVED IN ‘’10 MARY ST’’ FOR NINETEEN YEARS. HE EXPLAINS BRIEFLY THAT HIS FAMILY VALUED THEIR MEMORIES THAT ALL HAD LIVING IN “10 MARY ST” BECAUSE OF THE SENSE OF SECRITY AND ACCEPTANCE THAY ALL FELT AND THE EXTRAUDINARY BOND THEY HAD WITH THEIR NEIGHBOURS/ COMMUNITY.” FOR NINETEEN YEARS, WE DEPARTED” THE USEOF HIGH MODALITY REPRESENTS THE PERSON’S TIME REFERRENCE EMPAHAISING HIS THESIS THAT THEY ALL CHERISH AND VALUE THEIR MEMORIES LIVING IN THEIR HOUSE AS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THEIR HOMELAND/COUNTRY. THE POET ASO ARGUES HIS POINT THAT EACH PERSON HIS FAMILY HAD OWNERSHIP OF THE HOUSE TOGETHER BY USING SIMILE TO BACK UP HIS ARGURMENT” EACH MORNING THE HOUSE LIKE A WELL-OILED LOCK” HE DEFINES THAT THE DOOR CLOSES EASILY AND HOW THEY ALL TOOK CARE OF IT PROBERLY FOR NINETEEN YEARS, AGAIN THIS SHOWS HOW THEY LOVED AND NUTURED THEIR HOUSE. The persona EXPLAINS HOW HIS FAMILY COULD HIDE THE KEY ANY WHERE BECAUSE THEY FELT SAFE AND ACCEPTANCE IN THEIR COMMUNITY.” HID THE KEY UNDER A RUSTY BUCKET” *This* PERSONIFIES THE JUXTAPOSTION AGAINST THE 4*TH* LINE INDICATES THAT THE FAMILY TRUSTED THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD AND FELT THE SENSE OF SECRUITY THEY NEEDED TO ADAPT TO THE SOCIETY. THE IRONY OF THIS POEM IS THAT COMPARED TO THE OTHER POEM, FELIK DOES NOT FEEL ALIENATION TO HIS HOME, CULTURE, HERITAGE This* H* GHLIGHTS THAT WHEN YOUR CULTURE AND HERTIAGE IS FORCEDUPON YOU ONE REBELS. HOWEVER WHEN AN OUTSIDE ENTITY, ALIENATES YOU OR FORCES DISPLACEMENT UPON YOUR FAMILY ONE AUTOMATICALLY HAVE ALLEGIANCE TO HIS HOME. The poem “10 marry street’’ is similar to the poem ancestors because they both explore the concepts of belonging and the empowering at both the personal and collaborative level of becoming stronger because of the added security and reassurance of being part of a group and being accepted. *The poem ancestors explores the spiritual world of skrzynecki and how he wants to belong to his ancestors the poem highli*ghts his personal meaning of home and his connectedness with his people recognizing his outlook and his self esteem enlightening him to belong. In the poem the composer has acknowledged that everyone has ancestors to trace back to find their sense of identity therefore we all belong into a group. He imposes the question that the dead spiritually leaves and we won’t* ever feel the alienated and the humiliation of not being accepted in a family.” What secrets do they whisper into the darkness, why do their eyes never close”' the *personifies* poses these question implying that the dead never sleeps and never leaves you and * the *spiritual *world leaves on forever, therefore we would never feel the social rejection and that we are always part of a bigger group. The poet also states that our ancestors play an important role in all of our lives; they help us understand where we came from, who we are and who we belong to. Our ancestors can help us value our self identity just in case we ever do compromise our morals, beliefs to the wrong group. “where do they point to, from the circle around you to what star do their footprints lead” skrzynecki is suggesting that our life’s are predestined that our ancestors can be traced back like mapping the stars varied and many or to the dawn of time. Skrzynecki has realized that his death is here, yet he questions the length of his life before he crosses over and becomes ancestor himself, but he does not want to die yet because he might have unfinished business that he needs to end. “Why* do they never speak, how long is their wait to be, why do you wake as their *faces becomes clearer your tongue dry as caked mud'” he feels that he is close to death and has questions to be asked before he dies, he also starts to recognize himself in the ancestor group. In related text 1The composer explores the concepts of belonging, acceptance, assimilation, alienation, identity and the idea concepts of what is to be an Australian. Both groups non Muslim Australian and Muslim Australians are juxtaposed against each other demonstrating the challenges and the questioning on which group defines the ideal of being a true blue Australians. The author briefly explains her point of view adequately, her thesis displays that Australian Muslims are being asked to “fit in” the response of Randa abdel-fattah wasn’t positive she states” who has the right to define what is aussie', and why do we need to” she challenges and questions the Australian stereotypical and asks which group represents or defines the concepts of being a “a true blue mate!”. The title of the “veils and vegemite “explains that both groups belong to one , the juxtaposing and blending of the two different culture and the use of alienation means that they belong to the group as a whole. The composer uses the listing device of different sources to identify the construction of the Australian. “politicians, journalists, radio hosts, public figures shows that she has been hearing , how to be a proper citizen of Australia everywhere in the media and how society has been succumbed by the media which leads up to alienations toward the Muslims. Also the author argues how society will make them feel and that they do not fit in and that they are not accepted to be an Australian. “Muslims” and “Australians” are widely perceived as being mutually exclusive as polar opposites, this concept emphasizes that Muslims and non Muslims are distraught because of their different beliefs, values and morals. The narrator states in the article that “we can only feel truly Australians by measuring ourselves against those we deem to be truly not” this sentence explains that people have to conform to a code to belong to a group and how groups set out oppositions to be the enemy and to divide the groups. In conclusion the composer constantly suggests “as somebody who falls reality into the category of “other “,I am curious as to why Muslims and indeed people who qualify for the crude misnomer “of middle eastern appearance” are on this side of the deep and bitter chasm that has been created in Australia. The repetition of the alienated and the outcast is being created by the ideal majority group and the use of idiom the connotation represents the negative impact towards the Muslims. “Veils and vegemite” is similar to “at seventeen” because both composers explain how they see themselves and the world, social outcast that they suffer psychologically and emotionally making them not feel valued they will prone to strike out at the group that makes them feel alienated. *The related text 2 explores the negativity of how *young* girls express their *sensitivity towards the other girls who flaunt their beauties and are rich meaning they have it all making her feel the non enjoyment that she will never be popular and fit into a group full of idolized girls. The composer Janis Ian emphasizes the main point of this text is the pain and suffering that the girls whoa are like her go through and have been outcasted into a smaller group. “beauty queens” defines that she can not conform to the code of beauty, class, and her connection to the popular group creating the sense of displacement in her heart. Janis also states that the rich have no clue of the outside world of the working class and who aren’t rich and do sacrifice everything for their families to have food and clothes. “Their small town eyes will gape at you” the use of high modality depicts that they don’t have worldly experience on how others work hard to earn everything that they have because all the things they have is already set out for them by their rich families.