Belonging

Question 0

MIGRANT HOSTEL
how is exclusion shown?
3 examples

Answer 0

TITLE; immediately excludes the people within the hostel from society

First line: “no one kept count” shows no personal connection and sense of discord

HIGH MODALITY: ‘no’ is first word, ‘die’ is last word… Showing the negative experience of exclusion and isolation from society

Question 1

MIGRANT HOSTEL

how is inclusion shown?

Answer 1

Connections are established by people who have been cohesively isolated

Inclusive pronouns: we, us, each other

Extended metaphor:
“Birds of passage”
“Nationalities sought each other out instinctively like a homing pigeon”

Question 2

HOME
how is not belonging shown through disconnection?

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Answer 2

Salient feature is a cartoon image, showing that fantasy is dominant over reality. The dominance of fantasy further emphasises lack of connection to the surrounding world.

1st and 2nd third are the most dominant thirds of the image, of which are out of focus. Further suggesting a sense of disconnection.

Lack of gaze of the individuals

Question 3

HOME
how is the desire to belong shown?
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Answer 3

Salient image includes a cartoon figure with the word ‘home’ suggesting the importance of belonging to a place

The figure of the girl graphically submerged into the salient feature shows the willingness and desire to belong.

Question 4

ANCESTORS
how is isolation conveyed?
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Answer 4

Negative connotations of ‘bearded, faceless men’ convey a lack of intimacy

Rhetorical questions ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘why’ used consistently throughout the poem creates an immediate and sustained tone of uncertainty and apprehension.

Lack of personal collective nouns, ‘they’ is used instead

Question 5

HOME

How is isolation portrayed

Answer 5

Composition of the figures. Disconnected from motherly figure, contrasted to the conjoined stick figures within the cartoon

Question 6

HOME

How is an inadequate sense of identity shown

Answer 6

Lack of gaze of the figures

Child takes up lower, least dominate third of the image, becoming insignificant

Question 7

FELIKS

how is an individual sense of belonging shown in Feliks Skrzynecki?

Answer 7

FELIKS
Connection to his garden, his home
‘Swept it’s paths/ ten times around the world’

‘Loved his garden like an only child’

PETER
Does not feel the same sense of belonging
‘Happy as I have never been’ - irony
‘ …like a dumb prophet/watched me pegging my tents/ further and further south of Hadrian’s wall’
- metaphorically depicting the tension between father and son

Question 8

HOME

How is an individual sense of belonging shown

Answer 8

CHILD
immersed into drawing
Vector of her arm leads to the word home

MOTHER
facing away from salient drawing
Disconnected from child

Question 9

POSTCARD

Different perceptions of belonging

Answer 9

Parents
‘My mother … Her beloved Ukraine’
‘My father will be proud of your domes an towers’
HIGH MODALITY

Peter
“I/my parents” enjambement
‘Something like a park’ uncertainty, low modality

Question 10

SHAWSHANK

Character that shows not belonging

Answer 10

Brooks Hatlen

Question 11

SHAWSHANK

Character that shows belonging

Answer 11

Andy Dufresne

Question 12

DIRECTOR OF SHAWSHANK

Answer 12

Frank Darabont

Question 13

BROOKS

scene that shows not belonging

Answer 13

Steps out into the world, non-diegetic orchestral music accompanies Brooks line figure - sorrow

Question 14

REDS QUOTE ABOUT BROOKS

Answer 14

‘In here he was an important man… Out there he’s nothing’

Question 15

BROOKS

Quote - not belonging

Answer 15

‘Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the food way, so they’d send me home’

Question 16

ANDY DUFRESNE

Scene that shows belonging

Answer 16

Emerges from the refuse pipe, the image is symbolic of deliverance. Lightning is used for dramatic lighting accompanied by powerful orchestral music.
Takes off his clothes to cleanse himself of his past, affirming that he has been born into a world where he truly belongs.