Belonging Different Aspects

sanguine Langfords Autobiography extract shows us different aspects of belong than Wintons story. Explain this. There are a substantial amount of aspects that correlate and contrast with the theme of be in various texts. Although our sense of belong is vital for our survival and existence, everyone has their own come along to belong and define it in their own way. The extract why we didnt plunge by Ruby Langford explores belonging from the eyes of an aborigine adult female and how she is affected by the society that surrounds her.Tim Wintons short story The body of waters Edge and this extract share similarities and differences in language techniques, barely more importantly, they contrast in how they approach belonging and what it is to fall in a strong sense of belonging. Ruby Langfords extract begins with her moving to leafy vegetable valley, a place widely populated with white people. Amongst this white dwelling there is a designated house made just for aboriginal resi dence. They were obligate to live there due to the government policy of integration/assimilation, they belonged there.Belonging basinnot be ordered, or directed by government policy it arises from deep communion of values. The title of the extract why we didnt assimilate confirms this. Ruby mat up very isolated from her friends and culture. All her neighbors were white. She felt alienated by the rules of living in a housing commission house curiously the rule about guests the rule was useless in our culture. Ruby ignored these rules as in order to belong we fulfill ourselves not pretend to be mortal else. The girl from the waters distinctness (in order to fulfill herself) swam into the dark ocean.Just as ruby ignored these rules, the help in waters edge rejects her commence because her return and the (government in the extract) are trying to make them something they are not. They rebel in order to fall out a stronger sense of belonging. The clear contrast between the two texts can be seen through their perceptions of the idea of belonging to a family. The waters edge is all about losing these family connections while the extract suggests that family bonds will hardly strengthen belonging. This is seen through how two authors describe family through language used.The booster from waters edge just wished her mother would put the bottles remote. The qualifier just indicates an impatience with and intolerance of her mother. This is supported with her judgment that her mother was either sick or irrational. This juxtaposes with when the kids asked why I was stridentwe hugged each other the strong sense of family is clearly seen in the extract. The unfledged girl in Wintons short story challenges conventional belonging to her mother and becomes attached to nature and believes that only the strong survive.Another thing to honour is that Wintons story is built on anonymity while a lot of names are used in the extract their belonging is based on famil y while the girl thinks she can make it on her own. The mother and the booster dont even make conversation throughout the text, but the kids in the extract talk and interact with their mother to further exaggerate that belonging strengthens with strong connections with family. The tones used to illustrate belonging in both texts are different in terms of how their authors view belonging and what it takes to stool a strong sense of belonging.In Langfords extract, she uses early mortal narration and speaks to the reader as a friend my number one glimpse of the house left me with a lump in my pharynx. Her congresswoman is passive, conversational and resilient we notice that there is depth in her character and her ability to create a place of belonging in a predominantly white area. She has a very authentic phonate I was dying to see another black face psyche to pass the time of day and yarn with, she uses ordinary idioms and this narrative voice keeps us very close to her view point.This contrasts with Wintons use of third person narration and focalized narration to describe the girls point of view. The protagonists judgment that her mother was either sick or stupid is an example of focalized narration, this allows Winton to keep us emotionally distant from the reader to that extent allow us to understand her frustration. Winton described the girls emotions other than because by rejecting her mother (her family) she could be edging the point of alienation in the fluid continuum of belonging.Both The Waters Edge and Why we didnt assimilate creatively explore senses of belonging. Through exploration and interpretation of the text, I have discovered a vast array of representations of belonging. Through contrasting both texts I have discovered the different aspects that belonging can have and how in some cases it can be complex. Wintons text explores how someone can belong to something more than family and Langfords extract shows the strength that comes from belonging to a family. By considering these aspects of belonging we are enlightened.