The story that has been created has been inspired by a movie called Muriel’s wedding which was released in 1994. The main character of the story is Rangsei, a young Cambodian female and was adopted by an Australian family. The name ‘Rangsei’ was chosen due to the meaning of the name ‘she who questions’ and is a type of person who lacks in self-confidence. This name relates to the main character as Rangsei is a girl who is trying to find herself and where she belongs. She dwells on the past about how she used to live in the slums, she despises this kind of life which gave her the motive to look forward. Rangsei is seeking acceptance, however, she has low self-esteem but strongly values her ethnicity as a Cambodian. Rangsei views the Australians, as different people because she feels inferior. The main character strongly feels this way that she refers her adoptive parents as “the lady” and “the man”. She views the society that there are social classes and which leads her to believe why someone like them would adopt her. Rangsei sees herself as a low-rank citizen and cannot understand where she fits in her new home, for example, Rangsei says “Why would they want a street rat like me?”. Her independence from when she was a child has created a life of her not knowing what important family values are. …show more content…
What is similar between the movie and the novel is the theme.
For instance, themes that are similar is character development where Muriel and Rangsei have been treated as ‘different’ like outcasts in different ways, they both seek acceptance and lack of self-confidence to defend themselves. When comparing these two, family issues is also another theme that stands out. Muriel has a dysfunctional family, the father only has a job and lacks communication and respect. Whilst in the creative story, Rangsei shows the audience that something has happened in the past that made her dislike the family so much she would rather live with a different
family. The aim of the creative piece was to create an emotional response, this is achieved by using emotive language to make the audience feel a certain way about the characters that are portrayed in the story. Smilies have been used, for example; “People stared like a predator at its prey”, the symbolism was used often, for example; the stuffed toy is to symbolise the innocence of a child. The broken mirror in the clean room symbolises her in her past when she was a ‘broken’ child who didn’t have the best upbringing compared to the society around her who are privileged to have a life of wealth. Other language techniques have been used like rhetorical questions, slang and visual imagery. They are used for the purpose to captivate the reader. The short story also touched on issues that are seen today, such as bullying, ‘fitting in’ with society and poverty that is a common situation that Cambodians are facing. Stories need meaning and without the use of language techniques creative pieces would be dull, boring and won’t engage the reader into the story.
One example of the theme occurs when the author first introduces the story. “But the summer I was 9 years old, the town I had always loved morphed into a beautifully heartbreaking and complicated place.” (pg. 1). The author is saying that the year she turned nine, she found out something about her town that broke her heart and changed the way she saw it. This quote is important because it supports the theme. It shows that now she is older she has learned something about her town that made her wiser than when she was younger. She is now more informed because the new information changed her and caused her to begin to mature.
As we grow up one of the most important things we wish to discover is who we are as a person. Thus our understanding of our identity is vital in order to find our place in the world and is emphasised significantly in or modern culture. However trying to discover your sense of self can be a difficult time for any adolescence. Yet it can become even more complicated and stressful when you have to compete with drastically different cultural expectations. This is apparent in the children born to Asian Migrants in Australia; Author Alice Pung makes this abundantly clear in her memoir Unpolished Gem. This essay will explore how Pung has incorporated her struggle not only for own identity, but the strain of having to juggle the cultural expectations of her Asian family that she was raised with and the Australian culture she must live in, into her story.
Piaget believed that a child’s development is neither intrinsic (learning based on interest) or extrinsic (learning from an outside force, such as a parent). He believed that a child develops based on his or hers interactions in the environment (Mooney 2000). Piaget created four stages of cognitive development, some of which can be seen in the film “Cheaper by the Dozen”. A few examples of characters that display Piaget’s theory are the twins, who are in the preoperational stage and lack the concept of conservatism, and the mastermind, who is in the concrete operational stage and show's the concept of decentralism. These characters will have Piaget’s theory applied to them in the following paragraphs.
One theme is two-way relationships that both pull parents and children together whilst pulling them apart. This is illustrated when the mother describes an “old rope, Tightening about my life”. This represents a submerged rope (representing the invisible forces of attraction between the mother and daughter) attached to a boat in a harbour (representing the mother and daughter). It may seem like the boat and harbour are free, but when they try to go their own ways, the rope tightens and pulls them back together. This is not the only theme that reveals the complexities of the parent-child relationship. Another theme is how parents can be torn when their children grow up. The mother seems to be happy that her child is growing up and becoming independent but also seems to resist it. This can be seen from the description of traffic lights. The cars “taking turn” could represent the mother and daughter going on their own paths. The traffic lights alternate between letting and not letting cars through. The lights mirror the sporadic emotions of the mother. It is like they can’t decide to let the girl go on her own independent way in
Grace is a very sweet and sensitive girl. She made some mistakes herself, but because of her foster parents she got through the tough parts. In Far From the Tree written by Robin Benway, she created a character that had a child in highschool and Her little girl was adopted and has a better life than what Grace could have offered her. Once Grace got told she had a sister named Maya she bursted into joy. Her heart was beating out of her chest when she was emailing Maya to meet up. When Maya replied with an answer Grace was ecstatic, but at the same time she did not know what to think. The moment when she saw the answer was ¨yes¨ she ran downstairs to tell her parents. Her whole life was now different because she had a relief that she had someone
The novel Suttree is centered on Cornelius “Buddy” Suttree, a college educated man who has decided to forsake his former life and live in a houseboat on the Tennessee River outside of Knoxville, Tennessee in a fairly destitute area known as McAnally Flats in 1951. He leaves his wife and child, a son, giving up the comfortable life to live as a river rat of sorts. He seems to be searching for something, unbeknownst to him or the reader. Possibly the meaning of life, but more than likely it’s a way to deal with death that seems to follow Suttree around throughout the novel. He’s not one for social norms, coming off as being an anarchist. He runs from his responsibilities, rebels against authority, and refuses to be bound by social convention. His everyday life is a hodge podge of drunken adventures, be it brawls or waking up in the morning in the local lockup hungover and confused. He associates with the
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy of each other’s life” -Richard Bach. Far from the Tree by Robin Benway explores the meaning of family, and the impact that loved ones have on identity. The novel tells the story of three siblings who have three very different lives reunite after spending all of their lives separately. Grace, Maya and Joaquin grow dependant on one another, and unknowingly give and take values from each other that help them solve their own issues slowing being brought to light. With the help of his parents and siblings, Joaquin reveals a critical capacity for change as he leaves his old self behind and moves on to a better future with a loving family.
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