The New Boy Belonging

There is an excitement that continues to build as the boys speak to each other, in tense words filled with simple masculine competitiveness, trying to one-up each other. Nervousness is implied in the line "they clear their throats a lot". We know that something is going to take place, something significant and important in the lives of the mother and the boy.

In the 2009 novel Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey, an obvious theme of belonging emerges from the text. This story is set in a fictional small Australian town known as Corrigan, where many of its residents struggle to feel a connection with others and wish to move to the city, or any other place with more potential for success. While it is a key value that is demonstrated by Silvey throughout the text, it is clear that there are many disturbances within the community that prevent many from feeling a sense of belonging. Many of the Understanding each of Silvey’s characters personal idea on the concept of belonging is easy once it is determined who does not fit in. Each character represents a unique form of desire for human connection.

When the boy's parents had finally come to watch their sons do what they had been passionate about for the whole summer of 1972, Petey feels this immense amount of joy because of how he thinks the parents might know him a bit more. Petey feels as if his parents ignore him and do not pay attention to his daily personal desires because they themselves are too busy focusing on their jobs and their personal desires.

The film depicts the significance of belonging and not belonging; these feelings impact on an individual dramatically. Studying the concept of belonging helps the responder strengthen their own sense of belonging and connection with their surroundings. Learning about how others obtain a sense of acceptance makes it easier for the responder to find their own sense of belonging. The close up shots and mid-range shots of Lena’s room filled with photographs of Ireland conveys how she disowns her aboriginal identity and searches for belonging from the Irish side of her ethnicity. In her current hometown, she feels excluded and isolated from everyone else and strives to connect with her father in Ireland.

Steve James tells the story of the boy’s journey in the form of a documentary. The story is made up of many raw materials. James takes this raw material and shapes it into a story. He gives the material a structure which allows his message and the story to be told in a efficient and truthful way. When it comes to realistic films, the audience believes that the “implied author is virtually invisible” (Gianetti 331). This film does not follow this convention. There is a narration in the film that adds information that the viewer is missing in order to fully tell the story. An example of this narration is Arthur having to take summer school because of his grades. The actions would speak for themselves like any other film, but the director added this to steer the audience to his view. The director “fails to act according to tradition, convention, or our sense of history, we are forced to reassess our cognitive methods and our attitude toward the narrative” (Gianetti 336). The director breaks the method of realist films not having narration, which makes the audience change their assessment of the story. The director changes this method this to lead the viewer into his main focus of the story which is the struggles and successes of boys. Without the summer school narration, the audience may not have fully

Joseph hears the sibling’s argument and becomes very angry. “‘Not ashamed!’ Repeated my father. ‘Not ashamed of producing a mockery of your Maker- not afraid of trying to tempt your sister into criminal

Coarsen, Candice, and Elizabeth are each who I feel have taught Seth at least one positive and one negative aspect of life. The first person who had an effect/influence on Seth life was Coarsen. I do say that Corsen had a positive and a negative influence on Seth’s life. The negative influence that Coarsen had on Seth was his bullying in “initiation”.

Mikey's desire to fit in and avoid standing out reflects the universal experience of many young people who feel the need to conform to societal norms. Through Mikey's internal conflict, Reynolds prompts readers to question the importance of material possessions and the pressure to conform to external standards

In this play there is a wanting to belong that effects many characters. For instance Michael isn’t sure what he wants to be but he knows that he doesn’t belong on a farm. He wants to do something other than being a farmer. Carolyn at the start of the play wants to be taken seriously and succeed. This is shown when she ask her dad to stand somewhere else because she wants everyone to know that she raised the steer. Francesca Johnson wants to belong and has convince herself that she does for so many years. She has forgotten who she is. Robert Kincaid reminds her of the person she was long ago and has forgot. For the first time he wants to feel a since of belonging to someone and a home.

I heard Two Bit say hi Johnny kidd and i opened my eyes. I tried to grin “Hey ya’ll” i said to Two Bit and Ponyboy. Two Bit looked around “They treating you okay, kid?” “Don't talk” Two Bit said pulling up a chair” just listen.

There is switch to second person point of view and then a switch to third person when the son notices his father trying to get close to him he then brings up his father’s capabilities as the father is becoming too old for the job and his infirmity has led to his physical condition to decline. As his son is telling him that he will be demoted, the father replies with a tone that remained unphased and stolid about how he has done this for fifty four years and is still capable of his daily tasks. His son was still starting to show a hesitant tone as he set the paper down on the bed and his father has a resounding tone that was detached from life as his life was over. The father rejected aging and the deterioration of his physical being because once the father lost his place in society, he lost everything as he had nothing left. This shows us how difficult it is to lose your place once one

In the story, Seth was a flat character because even though the author gave a slight description about him and his background, I did not really feel a special connect to the character as you should always feel when reading a book! Seth is a traumatized teenage boy due to his past of being left at home alone with his four year old brother, Owen. Owen was kidnapped by an escaping convict at a prison and they never found him. As the story moves along in his sense of his afterlife, each time Seth goes to sleep all of his bad memories of being inside his old house in England regenerates in his brain. At this point I believe the author is trying to explain Seth as a person who is hurting but keeps his emotions all inside. Seth’s role in the story is to show more than this; more than the world we are living in right now. Seth’s way of showing his qualities of changing dramatically throughout the story and his thought of the afterlife gets his soul in a good

A sense of belonging is directly derived from one’s honest and truthful identity. Scott Westerfeld demonstrates the importance of one’s identity throughout the novel Uglies, allowing the reader to understand the importance of valuing one’s identity. Through Tally Youngblood’s character development, the theme of belonging and finding one’s identity is a constant and re-occurring theme. The main setting of the Smoke emphasizes individuality and the identity one claims by becoming a part of that society. Having the strong opinions that Tally Youngblood and Shay both have is the direct cause of their conflict, which indicates their individual perspectives of how one’s identity should be. The literary elements in Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies, clearly

Relationships and experiences shape an individual’s sense of belonging only to a certain extent as an individual’s sense of belonging is greatly influenced by their own beliefs and self-perception. This can be predominantly understood in Redfern Now: Stand Up (RN), directed by Rachel Perkins, and Going Home (GH) written by Archie Weller. Redfern Now demonstrates how protagonist, Joel Shields, though studying in an elite school like Clifton Grammar, he chooses to not belong and differentiate himself from the values of the school and assert his own beliefs. Similarly, Going Home explores how even though Billy Woodward, born an Aboriginal, perceives the entire Aboriginal society as “rowdy, brawling, drunk people” and therefore chooses to not belong.

Belonging comes from an understanding, or the knowledge that an external sense of being comes from an internal sense of connection and safety. This critical analysis will portray how the text “Stolen” by Jane Harrison relates to the concept of belonging. Stolen is a play that tells the stories of 5 Aboriginal children that were stolen away from their families and were forced to grow up in institutions, following the European way of life. The children were segregated from their communities and treated as inferiorly. Their worth was seen as minimal and only useful to Europeans as slaves. “Stolen” is an example of not belonging to the environment that one is living in. The children are stolen from their parents, their culture and traditions,