Belonging Essay
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Belonging Essay
The concept of belonging denotes a sense of connection and affinity with one’s surroundings, fostered through enduring relationships and comfort zones. With the absence of such sentiments, ‘belonging’ is replaced by alienation and isolated emotions, accompanied by an emotional detachment from one’s surroundings. “St Patrick’s college” written by Peter Skrzynecki explores many aspects of not belonging through the world of education at a school he did not fit into, his mothers want to give him the best, caused this negative impact on Peter. “The stolen generation” sung and written by Archie Roach, explores the trauma young Aboriginal people experienced throughout the time of the stolen generation and the memories in which Archie has remembered from his forceful removal from his family and land. Throughout “Felicks Skrzynecki” written by Peter Skrzynecki who’s whole life felt he had belonged through his sense of connection with this polish culture, he never once felt that he needed to belong to the society he lived in and always strongly followed his heritage. As shown in Felick’s Skrzynecki, the father and son are comprehending of one other’s experiences. Michael Leunig’s drawing ‘A WRY Comment’ gives an example of how one follows society’s expectations, and questions whether or not they belong to this society.
Peter Skrzynecki throughout his schooling life experienced negative aspects of belonging, he did not fit in and although he had been there for a while he still felt unwelcome. “Our lady watched with out stretched arms” although when entering the school to this statue, he never received the warmth from it, and remained. His mother only wanted what was best for her son; “impressed by the uniforms of her employees son’s” Peter tried to fit into this new and different society, because he didn’t want to let his mother down considering the amount of money she was paying for him to go to this particular school. Peter felt like a “foreign tourist”...
The concept of belonging denotes a sense of connection and affinity with one’s surroundings, fostered through enduring relationships and comfort zones. With the absence of such sentiments, ‘belonging’ is replaced by alienation and isolated emotions, accompanied by an emotional detachment from one’s surroundings. “St Patrick’s college” written by Peter Skrzynecki explores many aspects of not belonging through the world of education at a school he did not fit into, his mothers want to give him the best, caused this negative impact on Peter. “The stolen generation” sung and written by Archie Roach, explores the trauma young Aboriginal people experienced throughout the time of the stolen generation and the memories in which Archie has remembered from his forceful removal from his family and land. Throughout “Felicks Skrzynecki” written by Peter Skrzynecki who’s whole life felt he had belonged through his sense of connection with this polish culture, he never once felt that he needed to belong to the society he lived in and always strongly followed his heritage. As shown in Felick’s Skrzynecki, the father and son are comprehending of one other’s experiences. Michael Leunig’s drawing ‘A WRY Comment’ gives an example of how one follows society’s expectations, and questions whether or not they belong to this society.
Peter Skrzynecki throughout his schooling life experienced negative aspects of belonging, he did not fit in and although he had been there for a while he still felt unwelcome. “Our lady watched with out stretched arms” although when entering the school to this statue, he never received the warmth from it, and remained. His mother only wanted what was best for her son; “impressed by the uniforms of her employees son’s” Peter tried to fit into this new and different society, because he didn’t want to let his mother down considering the amount of money she was paying for him to go to this particular school. Peter felt like a “foreign tourist”...