Romulus My Father Belonging

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Belonging was another issue raised in both texts, The Glass Menagerie and Romulus My Father. In the Glass Menagerie, loss of belonging was represented by the character of Laura and Tom (the narrator). Both characters have conflicting attitudes towards their belonging to the family and their life whilst. The issue was represented within the play through the action of the characters that most of the time acted as a motif. The motif of Tom’s desertion of his family or Laura’s rejection by Jim, and Amanda’s obsessive reliving of her bygone youth, both, suggested a major theme of abandonment. Tom deserting his family wanting to escape from his family, his job and current life which endorses his loss of belonging to his family and his life or, perhaps, …show more content…

Raimonds’ choice of selections and diction played a major role in representing his sense of belonging to Australia. He indicates to the audience the discrimination of the Australian people whereby his father was called “Jack” and “Balts” and that Raimond uses as a narrator such as “the New Australian” shows that being a migrant undermines one’s identity, what that means, is that people lose their names to the environment. However, Romulus had a better acceptance in this society as he was allowed and able to groom “…a deep love of central Victoria…a love for its landscape and its people”. He describes his father’s dislike of the Australian landscape and contrasts it to how much he fell in love with it, he felt belonged to Australia. However, Raimonds also expressed his sense of belonging to his birth country and his original culture due to his use of the syllable ka-rac-ter http://readingaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Romulus-My-Father-Gaita-article_mETAphor_1_2009.pdf. However, Raimonds had also experienced some discrimination that could have suggested his lack of belonging to the Australian society. For example, through the anecdote of Raimonds burning a snake, the newspaper had published the story using negatively connotative terms such as “ridiculed”, “the new Australian” and “folly”. These connotative terms implied a strong sense of discrimination against Raimonds which indicates his rejection or unacceptance of the Australian society, thus, making him not belonging to the

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