Understanding nourished belonging...

a lack of understanding prevents it Belonging Skrzynecki o Feliks

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His polish friends/ Always shook hands too violently Feliks Polish heritage enables him to belong. loved his garden like an only child The simile highlights his connection to the garden which facilitates his sense of belonging ten times around the world The use of hyperbole of his father sweeping the paths shows his extreme passion for gardening and the emotional connection he has with it. His joy and reassurance represents his strong sense of belonging. Talking, they reminisced Feliks sense of belonging was nourished through his cultural context On the back steps of his house/ ... golden cypress...Lawns... geraniums ...My father sits out the evening In his backyard he is Happy. The cumulative listing enforces the fathers connection with his garden his home. This connection is both a direct link to his sense of belonging and an indirect one. Directly- he feels a sense of belonging as a result of the familiarity and ownership. Indirectly, this garden links him back to his Culture and Polish heritage farms where paddocks flowered which generates belonging also. Migrant hostel Nationalities sought/ each other out instinctively/ Like a homing pigeon/ circling to get its bearings This simile and animal imagery shows the weakness and vulnerability of the migrants and the natural gravitation of the migrants to find a sense of belonging among common culture. we, us Collective language ties sense of being united in certain groups and that Skrzynecki is speaking on behalf of everyone in the hostel. 10 Mary St Each morning shut the house/ like a well-oiled lock Shows familiarity and security generated in their home. Shows contentment and satisfaction. Over that still too-narrow bridge/ around the factory/ that was always burning down. The personal sentimental touches that make the house theirs. Id ravage the backyard garden/ like a hungry bird

Understanding nourished belonging... a lack of understanding prevents it The simple simile highlights the security and fond memories that Peter loves so much. Both of which generate a source of belonging for him. Heated discussions/.../Kielbasa, salt herrings/ and rye bread and other polish icons. This use of listing highlights the love and warm feelings generated as an extent of culture which encourages belonging. Arons Oneness with the desert environment, as he leaps and bounds over the rocky terrain Highlights his sense of belonging to this nature. Final shot of Aron with his family and following pictures with words of him still hiking and mountain climbing. These both highlight and illuminate the positive effects of Belonging and highlight Arons sense of belonging with his family and to a lesser extent nature. But I know every rock and tree and creature/ Has a life, has a spirit, has a name Shows intimate connection You think the only people who are people/ Are the people who look and think like you The cultural and racial status of the Englishmen highlights their sense of belonging to eachother. Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest/ Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth/ Come roll in all the riches all around you Demonstrates beauty of connection to Nature and highlights the sense of belonging generated by it. The rainstorm and the river are my brothers/ The heron and the otter are my friends/ And we are all connected to each other/ In a circle, in a hoop that never ends Shows intimate familial ties with nature that generate belonging. Visual imagery of the eagles eye and the cyclic nature of things demonstrates the unending value of belonging For whether we are white or copper-skinned/ We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain The juxtaposition of the racial status against the inclusive language of we generates an idea that all people belong to the human race.

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Understanding nourished belonging... a lack of understanding prevents it Not belonging Skrzynecki o Feliks

Kept pace only with the Joneses/ Of his own minds making Shows fathers choice not to belong/conform to surrounding trends His polish friends/ Always shook hands too violently Peters lack of understanding of his Polish heritage prevents him from belonging and alienates him. Who asked me in Dancing bear grunts/ Did your father even attempt to learn English?! Feliks lack of understanding of the English language prevents him from feeling a sense of belonging in his new country. Happy as I have never been. Peter is unable to grasp the feeling of belonging to the extent of his father. The void that he has with his family heritage and culture creates distance between him and his father. Without the full understanding of his heritage he cannot obtain happiness thus, a sense of belonging. Stumbling over tenses in Caesars Gallic War Not accustomed to English language techniques which further alienate him from his Australian peers. Watched me pegging my tents/ Further and further south of Hadrians wall This metaphor shows the alienation formed between father and son as a result of inept cultural understanding. Migrant hostel That left us wondering/ who would be coming next. Shows that nobody really belongs here. whose track we would follow Shows they are unstable and have no established belonging. A barrier at the main gate/ Sealed off the highway/ from our doorstep Barrier symbolises isolation to wider Australian community. Shows their alien statues and lack of belonging. 10 Mary st With paint guaranteed for another ten years/.../(the whole block has been gazetted for industry) The irony is that the house will not be standing for another ten years, this is very sad and highlights the lack of belonging as the familys broken tie with the home. The use of technical jargon poses the question of whether or not it is a legitimate reason, as if the legitimacy of it is enough. Naturalised more/ than a decade ago As above, the use of jargon highlights their resent.

Understanding nourished belonging... a lack of understanding prevents it The fact that this country which was meant to be better than post WW2 Poland is questioned. Inheritors of a key/ Thatll open no house/ when this one is pulled down The symbolism highlights their resent and shows their lack of belonging. The filmic technique of split screen, paralleling multitudes of people going to work (daily hum-drum), a major sporting event with multitudes of people cheering in unison and Aron on his own at home. This juxtaposition demonstrates Arons decision not to belong. Through bodily exhaustion Aron hallucinates. He sees his family on a couch, only a couple of metres away, close by him. His anger and subsequent resistance to conform and belong quickly melts away at the joyous sight of his family, (whom he has not seen in many years as a result of his choice to not belong to the family unit). From this one may gather that the director wishes to emphasize the remedying qualities of belonging. Arons struggle to belong is shown through his girlfriend leaving him. Arons indifference, apathy and lack of interest and communication causes her to ask Is that what you want? This highlights their lack of belonging to each other as there is a clear lack of *weird word I cannot read*. As he reminisces on the careless decisions he has made he recognises the value of relationship in retrospect. Underwater shot of Aron with his amputated arm (that was lost as a result of his choice not to belong) swimming towards his whole family on the other side of the pool. Climatic resolution is a metaphor of the journey of an individual moving towards wanting to belong. Highlights dangers of not belonging. Juxtaposition of Arons arm against the bare rock. This juxtaposition and visual appeal represents Arons not belonging to this environment. This juxtaposition and visual appeal represents the one thing that stops him from returning to and belonging with his family. You think Im an ignorant savage The distance between the two generates by racial difference shows lack of belonging to each other. You think the only people who are people/ Are the people who look and think like you The racial reference highlights the lack of belonging that they have to each other.

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Understanding nourished belonging... a lack of understanding prevents it Come roll in all the riches all around you/ And for once, never wonder what they're worth Shows that valuing money over belonging is negative- for once How high does the sycamore grow?/ If you cut it down, then you'll never know The use of rhetorical question makes the audience inquisitive and explorative, but is cut off at the roots for lack of understanding, hence lack of belonging.