'The Sense of Belonging - Novel and Film'

'A ace of be stack emerge from lodges make with wad, regularises and communities. A smell out of be is of import to a felicitous life. The desire for an soulfulness to belong is meaning(a) and this relationship to people and places help turn in one a reason of individualism and a trench connection. When people own this strong connection, either to a place or a person, their sense of belonging is strengthened. However, this sense of belonging trick qualifying over time. The official texts The chinaware strike by Allan Baille and dick Skrzyneckis poems St Patricks College and Feliks Skrzynecki address several(prenominal) aspects of belonging and non belonging. These aspects are go on explored in the cerebrate text Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton.\nThe novel The mainland chinaware Coin explores the concept of how a sense of belonging can emerge from a connection to place. The main(prenominal) character Leah, an Australian born Chinese living in Chatswood, u nwillingly accompanies her sense Joan to visit mainland chinaware to solve the whodunit of a coin. For Leah, tour mainland China was non an appealing option; she was only dismissal for her father who had passed away. by internal monologue, I am round to be interchange into slavery Leahs lack of heathen understanding of her pay offs propertyland is revealed. The word slavery suggest that her visual modality of China is a place of rigor and cruelty; she has non seen or experience this foreign rural and therefore has no strong connection to the place. This resentment in having to travel to China is further enhance by the denude hostess ah, youre coming home. Leahs cold repartee Ive neer been in China before shows that Leah does not associate China as home; Chatswood Sydney is her home, her only home. Leahs disconnection to China is further fortify as she sees the funny sights before her in Guangzhou. Leah describes China as a prompt porridge This metaphor conv eys how unpleasan... '