hanajumy said:
How 'Immigrant Chronicle' by Peter S. deals with the concept belonging?
I have to write an entry for my assessment but I don't know what do I have to write for this (the question above) Hix...
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You may like to choose some specific poems because different poems from the book deal with different aspects of beloning. The prescribes texts from the
Immigrant Chronicle are:
- Post card
- Feliks Skrzynecki
- St Patrick's College
- Migrant Hostel
- Ancestors
- 10 Mary Street
- Folk Museum
If you want to represent the non-belonging aspect of the book, go with
Migrant Hostel. It's a poem about the detention camp that Skrzynecki family had to be stuck with for few years along with other immigrants from Europe. Throughout the poem, you will see how the immigrants from different countries sorted out each other (according to their nationality) and highly negative experience that they had to go through at the camp.
On the other hand, there is a strong sense of belonging from poems such as
10 Mary Street. It's a poem about the Skrzynecki's treasured residence. It's a poem that shows how Skrzynecki family felt secure, welcomed and familiar in that particular environment. To them, the house was a little Poland, basically a microcosmic representation of Poland.
If you want something that is mixed up, go with
Feliks Skrzynecki. It represents the sense of belonging that Feliks had with his fellow Polish immigrants and the nice garden that he created for himself. But on the other hand, it shows how Peter himself didn't belong to the Polish culture and slowly deviating from it to the discovery of new culture.
Basically all poems, regardless of the central message they might hold, talk about both the negative and positive aspects of belonging.
