“the Potential of Individuals to Challenge a Group Is Influenced by Their Own Sense of Belonging to Their Community and the World Around Them
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“The potential of individuals to challenge a group is influenced by their own sense of belonging to their community and the world around them”
How have the texts you have studies demonstrated the truth of this statement?
When one analyses the poems of Peter skyrzynecki, the graphic novel The arrival by Shaun tan and the motion picture Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese one come to realises that the potential of individuals to challenge a group is in fact influenced by their own sense of belonging to their community and the world around them. As the poem called “Feliks skyrzynecki” and “postcard” by Peter skyrzynecki, in addition to the texts “the arrival” and “Goodfellas” unequivocally are perfect examples into the naked truth of this fact.
As the contexts of these texts differ greatly and seem to come from different dimensions as they are set in very different times, worlds and places full of their own unique traditions, rituals and customs. However these texts are intrinsically linked from their core in relation to the universal theme and need for belonging respectively faced and felt by the protagonists of the aforementioned texts. As the states of their spirits ultimately rely on their experience of unity and harmony of the relationships they have throughout their lives in the different texts.
To begin the poem titled “Feliks skyrzynecki” discusses the way that belonging rises from being attached to places and people and that people as individuals can choose to belong and the concept of belonging to an individual can be changed or modified over time. As the protagonist is conveyed to be strongly attached to his home as at the beginning of the poem, the simile and hyperbole evident in the lines “loving his garden like an only child...sweeping its path ten times around the world. Effectively conveys the perception the composer has of his father’s “paternal-connection” and the dedication he has towards the garden.
In a similar manner sense of belonging...
How have the texts you have studies demonstrated the truth of this statement?
When one analyses the poems of Peter skyrzynecki, the graphic novel The arrival by Shaun tan and the motion picture Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese one come to realises that the potential of individuals to challenge a group is in fact influenced by their own sense of belonging to their community and the world around them. As the poem called “Feliks skyrzynecki” and “postcard” by Peter skyrzynecki, in addition to the texts “the arrival” and “Goodfellas” unequivocally are perfect examples into the naked truth of this fact.
As the contexts of these texts differ greatly and seem to come from different dimensions as they are set in very different times, worlds and places full of their own unique traditions, rituals and customs. However these texts are intrinsically linked from their core in relation to the universal theme and need for belonging respectively faced and felt by the protagonists of the aforementioned texts. As the states of their spirits ultimately rely on their experience of unity and harmony of the relationships they have throughout their lives in the different texts.
To begin the poem titled “Feliks skyrzynecki” discusses the way that belonging rises from being attached to places and people and that people as individuals can choose to belong and the concept of belonging to an individual can be changed or modified over time. As the protagonist is conveyed to be strongly attached to his home as at the beginning of the poem, the simile and hyperbole evident in the lines “loving his garden like an only child...sweeping its path ten times around the world. Effectively conveys the perception the composer has of his father’s “paternal-connection” and the dedication he has towards the garden.
In a similar manner sense of belonging...