Saroo’s search for family roots. As Pixar Studios stated, “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” In Lion by Saroo Brierley, he may have gotten lost but he was never forgotten by his biological family. Twenty-five years ago, Saroo, a five-year-old boy, was lost and separated from his family in India. He is now living in Australia with his adoptive parents. At thirty years old he made one of the biggest decisions of his life, finding his hometown, Khandwa, in India. Saroo's journey to find his biological family is significant in many ways; one highlight is for his own personal identity and closure, for Saroo the search was a deeply personal quest for understanding his origins and identity. An additional factor, Saroo is eager and …show more content…
Raised by his adoptive parents in Australia, Saroo feels like there is something missing, he believes it is the wanting to reconnect with his origins in India. His search was a deeply personal quest but also an emotional and psychological one, as he is trying to find his old memories and the fragmented pieces of his past. The search symbolizes his need to understand his heritage and the circumstances that led to his separation from his family. This journey shows that understanding his past is essential for his personal development and identity, demonstrating that the search for where he came from is a fundamental aspect of his life experiences. The search highlights Saroos resilience and dissemination. It shows his physical and mental strength. In the face of uncertainty. It also shows the power of technology. Saroo uses Google Earth to retrace his way back to his hometown. The journey impacts Saroo's sense of self. He was born in India with an Indian heritage, bringing all he knew with him to Australia. This leads to a more integrated identity. The search brings emotional closure. It answers Saroos questions he had been holding on to for almost 25 years. Knowing where we come from is very important to understanding who we are. Saroo's reunion with his biological family provides him with a sense of
Family is one of the most important things in people's lives. No matter how much love or hate one feels about them, their genes are still yours. There will always be a part of them that can influence and reside in you. The father in "Wordsmith" and Sam Sing in "The Gold Mountain Coat" are prime examples of how different families can be. The father is loving whereas Sam Sing is apathetic.
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.
In the opening scenes, as the two protagonists say goodbye to their family, they throw their phones out of the window with triumphant music being accompanied by. This suggests that they are finally escaping their everyday life where it is heavily consumed by the technology that surrounds them. A bird’s angle through a long shot of the protagonists by the shore has been used to create a sense of futility, thus highlighting that there is no time limit constraining them. A series of videos of them building their house out of debris highlights their creative inventions. Their creativity is portrayed with their idea of using plastic water bottles as insulation, thus symbolizing that discovering something for the first time can broaden one’s understanding. This highlights the impact of discoveries to being able to escape from the norm and allowing the human mind to explore without limitation within a limited environment and thus grow through which has been exemplified through the manipulation of photos and camera
He takes the children on a journey, cleverly integrating Indigenous culture into the experience by telling stories that relate to the food the boys are served. With crocodile pizza and honey milkshakes, he tells the stories of the young boy who went hunting in the wrong waterhole and the discovery of the stinging bees, followed by spiritual dances.
There is no definition of who your family is. In Lilo and Stitch, we learn that your family is not always your mom and your dad. For many reasons, someone besides your birth parents can raise you. For example, Nani, Lilo's Sister, takes care and raises Lilo. This is a hard task, especially with Cobra Bubbles, a mean social worker, on your back. Mrs. Bubbles seems to think that Nani cannot take adequate care of Lilo. Although, Nani is trying as hard as she can. In the movie, she attempts to find a good job to support Lilo and her new pet Stitch. Everyone has seen the movie and everyone remembers when Stitch is almost taken, but he states his case. His case is that even he, an alien, has found a little broken (but still good) family within the human race. This movie does phenomenal at showing the world that family is not always immediate. If an older sister can raise her younger sister, and an alien can find a family on earth, then anyone can find their own definition of
Anh Do’s story starts and centres of one thing, family. In the book ‘The Happiest Refugee’ written by the successful Australian comedian Anh Do, his autobiography starts when Anh’s role model his father steered them out of a war, poverty and misfortune from the country of Vietnam in 1980 over the rough seas into his beloved home today, Australia. To what he has pushed through and become to this day, merely by having a ‘can do attitude’ and consistently showing bravery and exceptional resilience throughout every challenge he faces.
Family can help to build different character traits or it can help to better people. Family is also something that can be relied upon to help with different problems. Many times families and family members will teach a lesson that can be used later in life to help with varied situations. The people that are in the non-fiction literature all have one thing in common: they faced a problem, and were able to overcome it with the help of their family. With the help of family, people can better themselves and the people around them, by using the lessons their family has taught them.
Family is a reoccurring theme in the film and in each of the three stories. It affects the characters and the course of events throughout each different story- allowing for
The final paragraph of Watson’s chapter, he asks “where does the transnational end and the local being?” This opened my eyes to further examine my own environment to see what is specifically from my culture and what I have adopted from other nations. The majority of nations can be viewed as a melting pot. We are all a mixture of different aspects of cultures to create a growing and changing culture.
In “An Indian Father’s Plea”, the father writes “although you in Western society may argue that such a method serves to hinder motor-skill development and abstract reasoning, we believe it forces the child to first develop his intuitive faculties, rational intellect, symbolic thinking, and five senses” (An Indian Father’s Plea). This illustrates an argument in which his son, Wind Wolf, is a slow learner in another culture (teachers) since his culture belief teaches something different from the teachers’ culture. Another example is when Wind-Wolf feels isolated at school since other students at school doesn’t accept him for his culture and even when he tries to adapt. “He feels that he does not belong [there]… Instead of being proud of his, heritage, and culture, he feels ashamed” (An Indian Father’s Plea). Though isolation can be depressing, adapting to another culture can also be
The emplacement of cultural elements and themes may have restricted the speaker’s audience and lengthened the distance between the speaker and western audiences, but through the use of a first person narrative and universal ideologies a connection is still established. The use of a first person narrative may not be able to fully transcend the cultural barriers that exist in the story, but is able to shorten the distance between the speaker and the reader and create a sense of authenticity and truthfulness.
Unsuccessful intercultural encounters can sometimes result in tremendous consequences like losing business deals, breaking relationships or even destroying blood ties. In fact, for those who have watched the documentary “Daughter from Danang”, the idea of the last consequence would emerge vividly and hauntingly. The documentary, directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco, tells the reunion between a daughter and her long-lost birth mother. The reunion, which is expected to be an exhilarating experience, unfortunately becomes a painful one with heartbreaking moments. The failure of this reunion can be attributed to a number of reasons, but the most visible one is perhaps the issue of cultural differences. through the lens of intercultural communication,
He suffered much loss though during his journey. The first group Salva started walking with they left him behind. An old lady came up behind the group and said “Where are you going”(21). No one responded to the only lady, they left Salva alone with the old lady when he fell asleep they thought he was dead weight. She fed Salva and when a new group his tribe passed he started walking with them. In the new group he met a boy the same age, named Marial. They became very good friends until one day he woke up and found that Marial had been taken and eaten by a lion in the middle of the night. Although Salva was not able to find his parents, he did find his uncle that he had not seen in five years. His Uncle had a gun because he was in the army and now it was easier to kill animals to get food. His uncle knew about the wilderness and how to survive. While walking the rebels came and killed Salva’s Uncle right in front of him. Salva was fearful to be alone after his Uncle was killed, but knew his uncle would want him to be brave and continue on his journey. After some time, Salva begins to help others and becomes a leader of the group seeking a new
Have you ever stopped and thought about what everybody in the world has in common? Family is a very common thing. It could just be a group of people that you care about and love or it could just be a person. Family is always together and family never falls apart. Family is that one group that you love and worry about and it can be that one person. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton family is a very important thing. Family is the best blessing to have. The theme S.E Hinton talks about is family always sticks together.
One main reason why I chose Sociology as my major is because it’s very broad and there are many available careers that have peek an interest to me. A career that I have thought of pursuing is a Family Caseworker. The duty of a family caseworker is to provide social services and assistance to a family, child, or school to improve their social and psychological functioning’s. Family case workers job is also to advise families and a person so they can have some advice on how to cope with their issues. The requirements for this career is a bachelor’s degree on social work however studies either in sociology or psychology are relevant to this field. There are higher positions in this career which is supervisory but a master’s degree is usually required. I