Essay on Belonging - Rainbow's End and the Year My Voice Broke
Essay
‘A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made to people and places’.
A common human characteristic is the yearning to feel a sense of belonging through connections and different forms of relationships made in life. A sense of belonging or not belonging can emerge from feeling connected to people and places, whether they have been freely cast there or not. An individual will only feel a true sense of belonging through the understanding of those connections, which are created by experiences and can only come within.
Rainbow’s End, a play written by Jane Harrison, is about the search for identity and belonging, hope and love, as three fiercely, optimistic, Koori women strive to be accepted in a white community and fight for an equal chance in conservative rural Australia. The Year My Voice Broke, directed by John Duigan, is a coming-of-age drama based around the experiences of an awkward, prepubescent boy, Danny, who painfully watches his childhood sweetheart, Frey, blossom into womanhood as she falls for a local rugby hero, Trevor, and how their lives are permanently changed over the course of a year. Both texts follow the lives of three main characters that live on the fringes of isolated towns and endure difficult circumstances while making and breaking established relationships. However, through the many difficulties they choose to better themselves and make the best of what they had to eventually break through the mould.
‘A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made to people and places’.
A common human characteristic is the yearning to feel a sense of belonging through connections and different forms of relationships made in life. A sense of belonging or not belonging can emerge from feeling connected to people and places, whether they have been freely cast there or not. An individual will only feel a true sense of belonging through the understanding of those connections, which are created by experiences and can only come within.
Rainbow’s End, a play written by Jane Harrison, is about the search for identity and belonging, hope and love, as three fiercely, optimistic, Koori women strive to be accepted in a white community and fight for an equal chance in conservative rural Australia. The Year My Voice Broke, directed by John Duigan, is a coming-of-age drama based around the experiences of an awkward, prepubescent boy, Danny, who painfully watches his childhood sweetheart, Frey, blossom into womanhood as she falls for a local rugby hero, Trevor, and how their lives are permanently changed over the course of a year. Both texts follow the lives of three main characters that live on the fringes of isolated towns and endure difficult circumstances while making and breaking established relationships. However, through the many difficulties they choose to better themselves and make the best of what they had to eventually break through the mould.