Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Feliks Skrzynecki
- Not belonging
- different perceptions of their belonging
in Australia and the necessity (Father & Peter)
- Identity
- disparity between his father's strong sense
of cultural identity and his confusion about his
own identity
- Belonging
- shaped by personal, cultural,
historical & social contexts
- father's sense of belonging with his friends and his garden
come from his cultural (Polish), personal and historical
context (forced labour)
- Peter's contrasting sense of alienation comes from his
cultural context (son of migrants who has never been to
Poland at this stage), personal context (experience of
education).
- connections with places, ppl,
groups, communities, macro
- father's strong sense of belonging comes from his
connections with his friends (people), garden (place) and
his cultural heritage
- Relationships
- relationships with his friends and garden
give him a sense of belonging.
- Peter explores his relationship with his father
- Understanding
- attempt to come to an understanding of his father and
to come to terms with his own shifting identity
- • Individual ability to enrich/
challenge a group
- Feliks both enriches and challenges Peter's
notions of his own identity and stability.
- Attitudes to
belong
- Feliks does not change his fixed sense of
belonging, while Peter's attitude modifies over time,
pitching his tents "further and further south of
Hadrian's wall."
- • Assumption is that his experiences have shaped him to be
a stoic, honourable man.- represented in a favourable light.