The Human Quest to Belong is Characterized by Both Belonging and Alienation

be involves triumphing everywhere failure to fail. This is seen in Peter Skrzyneckis anthology Immigrant Chronicle. The poem St Patricks College explores the per discussionas struggle to catch up with alienation in his search for be. The poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores the per give-and-takea witnessing his fathers triumph to conk. The picture book The confused thing by Shaun convert explores the things initial failure to belong, which is then overcome. St Patricks College explores the personas failure to belong into the school company.The imagery our dame watched/ with outstretched arms gives the persona hope that he will belong in this school. This gives an early sensory faculty of triumph in his quest to belong. This is then inverted when the statues face is seen to be overshadowed by clouds. This use of whacky fallacy gives early warning that the school will not be a place where he belongs, but a place were he will fail to belong and become out casted. The prosopopo eia h octetteens this feeling of extrusion by having a personal bond developd between the two, which is then broken by the clouds.This gives a further feeling of isolation from the school. The persona then tells of his exclusion from the school when he reminisces on his bus trips. caught the 414 bus/ like a foreign tourist/ uncertain of my destination, in this boundary the simile is coupled with the use of tautology. The simile of the persona creation a foreign tourist gives him a lack of permanence in society, that he is a nomad with no sense of place. This is then contrasted with the repetition of eight years which shows how in this m he should have found a sense of belonging.The persona referring to himself as a tourist, also shows how he is out casted from society and not accepted. This also gives a feeling of exclusion faced by the persona. The tautology of foreign tourist is used to increase the feeling of exclusion. At the send away of the personas schooling he reflect s on his time at the school and the effort that his p arents had gone though to exit him with it. He still feels that it had not been a worthwhile sacrifice, but hopes that after school he could o something to make it worthwhile for them. that the darkness around me /wasnt for the best/ onwards I let my light shine. This line uses the imagery of darkness surrounding the persona to show his regret and alienation that he faced from his schooling. He then repeats his mothers line of for the best but this time cover her how she had been wrong. This puts a negative tone on the line. Hope is then gained for the persona when he states, before I let my light shine, which indicates that in the future he will triumph and belong into society.Feliks Skrzynecki explores the personas failure to belong in society, and his father triumph over belonging. The father is seen to have kept up only with the Joneses/ of his own minds making, the alliteration of minds making helps add emphasis to he li ne. This reinforces the feeling of his belonging in is own mind due to the added emphasis now placed on mind. The extract also utilises the cliche of keeping up with the Joneses as a metaphor for people conforming to societies expectations in a search for belonging. Feliks however, chooses to belong only within his own mind, and not conform to society.This shows how he has a sense of belonging within his own mind. Feliks is seen to have loved his tend like an only babe. This quote utilises the simile to portray the message of his belonging within the garden. Comparing the garden to an only nipper turns Feliks instincts to love and protect onto the garden. This is then reinforced later in the stanza when he is seen to walk around the garden from sunrise to sleep. The quote also utilises the utmost modality word love which gives added depth to simply how strong the connection between the two are.A father and son share a unique bond, employ in this line, where father and son bel ong together, this is now placed on the father and garden. This also acts to create a sense of jealousy between the son and the father, as the father cares for the garden not his son. This shows how the son has failed to belong with the father. like a dumb prophet/ watched me pegging my tents/ further and further south of Hadrians beleaguer, this quote uses the extended metaphor of Hadrians Wall as his old culture. The persona is seen to be lamentable away from his old culture as he attempts to embrace the Australian Culture.The paradox of the father being a dumb prophet indicted not him being stupid, but silent as he watches his son move further away from him and their Polish heritage. By using the word tents, the persona describes himself as discompose and impermanent, this gives the impression that he still belongs nowhere. The repetition of further and further indicate that the father and son are growing apart and will never return to their previous feelings of belonging. The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan explores the journey of the thing as it attempts to find a place of belonging.Initially, it is seen to be alienated from the rest of society by a high angle press stud of it at the marge. This shot allows for the whole scene to be viewed and for greater contrast to be made. The thing is seen I the middle of the beach, however it stands out from the rest of the beach goers. Its bright red colour is in contrast to the rest of the gray-haired people and grey city. The high angle shot is able to show the hundreds of people who all belong together in grey clothing, while also showing the insignificance of the thing as it sits alone.The thing is then later seen walking through the streets. All of the people surrounding it are the same height and wearing the same black suits, showing how they all belong to this conformist society. The thing however is seen at least three times as tall as the people, and in bright red, completely opposing the people of the city. This flat angle shot shows how the thing is still alienated from society. In the final pages of the book the thing triumphs over its quest to belong when it finds its new home.The low angle shot of the area shows the size and excitement of the place. It shows for the first time in the book colours, which give the thing a sense of belonging, as it now no longer stands out. The toss away is seen to be blue and sunny, giving the place a feeling of happiness. The thing is seen to finally have triumphed over its quest for belonging. Belonging involves triumphing over failure to belong. This is seen in Skryzyneckis anthology Immigrant Chronicle and Shaun Tans The Lost Thing.