Sense Of Belonging In Tate Taylor's Film 'The Help'
Belonging is achieved by many paths.
Belonging is a fundamental desire inherent within humans. However, there are various ways to attain a sense of belonging as it can be gained through the forging of relationships to people and places or through the understanding and sharing of similar cultural and religious identities. In Tate Taylor‘s film “The Help”, Peter Skrzynecki’s poem “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “Migrant Hostel”, regardless of whether people attempt to discover belonging under the biased American social context in 1963 or under immigration boom in Post War Australia, the paths lead toward belonging are significantly explored through the actions undertaken by the characters either to maintain one’s belonging or to establish a new sense of belonging.
Undoubtedly, a powerful sense of belonging can be attained through a person’s …show more content…
In “Migrant Hostel”, the poet as one of the migrants detained in the migrant hostel describes themselves as “We lived like birds of passage”, the repetitive first person collective pronoun “we” in the poem highlights that the migrants united themselves as a group based their shared understanding of each other’s migratory experiences, and the migratory bird imagery acts as a motif through out the poem conveying their common understanding toward the alienation and segregation they confronted against the mainstream society. More importantly, these understanding and connection of emotions enable their strong belonging to each other. In addition, the way for migrants to obtain a sense of belonging is when the “nationalities sought each other out instinctively”, the use of personification suggests that people with similar cultural identity automatically seeks each other for belonging in the detainment centre where is detached from the Australian community and incapable to forge
Belonging is a fundamental desire inherent within humans. However, there are various ways to attain a sense of belonging as it can be gained through the forging of relationships to people and places or through the understanding and sharing of similar cultural and religious identities. In Tate Taylor‘s film “The Help”, Peter Skrzynecki’s poem “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “Migrant Hostel”, regardless of whether people attempt to discover belonging under the biased American social context in 1963 or under immigration boom in Post War Australia, the paths lead toward belonging are significantly explored through the actions undertaken by the characters either to maintain one’s belonging or to establish a new sense of belonging.
Undoubtedly, a powerful sense of belonging can be attained through a person’s …show more content…
In “Migrant Hostel”, the poet as one of the migrants detained in the migrant hostel describes themselves as “We lived like birds of passage”, the repetitive first person collective pronoun “we” in the poem highlights that the migrants united themselves as a group based their shared understanding of each other’s migratory experiences, and the migratory bird imagery acts as a motif through out the poem conveying their common understanding toward the alienation and segregation they confronted against the mainstream society. More importantly, these understanding and connection of emotions enable their strong belonging to each other. In addition, the way for migrants to obtain a sense of belonging is when the “nationalities sought each other out instinctively”, the use of personification suggests that people with similar cultural identity automatically seeks each other for belonging in the detainment centre where is detached from the Australian community and incapable to forge