Julian Carter's Outlaw

The story is set in Australia and this gave me a sense of similarity and even fondness to the novel. I could feel the places, sounds and scenes of Australia. Living in Australia, it is interesting to see how Omed and other characters perceive our country.

The effect that captivity can have on someone is massive. Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author of A Place to Stand, describes his life and his choices that formed him into the man that he is today, through this memoir. Unfortunately, it took Baca years of struggle and hardships to get there, but thankfully, incarceration led him to the revelation that changed his life, writing poetry. Within his work, Baca expresses, “My writing became the receptacle for my sorrow. I wrote even when I didn’t want to, because I knew that, if I didn’t, my sorrow would come out in violence” ( Baca 234). During adolescence, he often found himself in seriously violent situations. Through his experience in prison, Baca was able to distract himself from all the terror

She was not happy in the state that she was in and not feeling safe where she was living. She sought out her family an friends to help her get through this. Wes quotes in the book ,” And finally, I want to show them that I wasn’t alone as I thought I was, and that maybe they are not alone either”(Moore 4).Over time she met a great husband and had loving children. Her kids got opportunities she always hoped they would. Without her hope that time would fix almost all problems, not of this would have

In this riveting autobiography, Kat Lavoie details her childhood filled with world travel and zany adventures. Born and raised in New Hampshire, Lavoie was no stranger to the feeling of wanderlust. Traveling to a total of seven countries before she reached the age of 18, Lavoie has earned the title of world traveler, along with her two older siblings. Through the jungles of Costa Rica to the streets of France and even further to the deserts of Namibia, it seems Lavoie has acandid and humorous tale for every place she has set foot.

On her short home visit she was able to see the different between her formal life and her new life. She was struggling to pay rent because her jobs didn’t pay her enough. In previous life she was only concern about writing and she did have to worry about rent money or finding a job.

A Place to Belong “Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least” -Jodi Picoult. Lonely, sad, depressed, alone and isolated, we all have felt that way before. The character’s condition might be the most depressing state we can be in, being away from your family, friends and home. In The Arrival the author showed us how colors can be a universal language , they may express the message quietly but they convey it strongly. Shaun Tan did not only want us to empathize with the characters, but he also wanted us to understand the character’s emotions through facial expression and colors.

The film pointed out a lot of subject matter that greatly affects our lives and these are as follows being a Good Samaritan, determination in reaching our goals and dreams, expression of once self, making decisions in the path we take, the different perception of different individuals to a certain subject, our judgement in the life of others, the impact of different exercises/evaluation concerning a person’s multiple intelligence to how he copes with life, and so much more. The Good Samaritan in the film was depicted by Leigh Anne. She portrayed that even in her elite kind of living, she still managed to offer a home for a young man who she had not known except for the fact that she was a friend of her son SJ, although she was a

However, Julian, like many O 'Connor characters, experiences a sudden realization that stems from his flaws. Toward the end of the story, his mother attempts to give a coin to the child of a belligerent black women, who, not coincidentally, has the exact same absurd hat that his mother was wearing at the beginning of the story. He finds this hilarious, thinking, “The vision of the two hats, identical, broke upon him with the radiance of a brilliant sunrise. His face was suddenly lit with joy. He could not believe that Fate had thrust upon his mother such a lesson,” (11). David Leigh, who wrote an essay concerning O’Connor’s short fiction, comments on this particular relationship. He explains, “Only after he experiences the suffering of his mother, who has a stroke at the end of her conflict with a

‘Home’ written by Larissa Behrendt is a fictional account that portrays the experiences the Aboriginals coped with in early Australian history. The novel follows the experiences of an aboriginal woman named Garibooli and shows the repercussions of her life and how it effects those around her. The novel explores a multitude of effects that a single event can have on an individual and the generations to follow. Some of these effects include, grief, loss and the sense of belonging. Belonging is personal and everyone deserves to belong and due to Garibooli and her children being of aboriginal descendant in a predominately white society, they have difficulty finding their sense of belonging.

It is significant however, that the narrator herself had absolutely no say in this matter. She was never asked if she thought that it would be of help to spend time in the country. She was never consulted about whether or not it could be her writing that is causing her emotional difficulties. Instead, the men who have power over her decided these things for her, locking her in a nursery and forbidding her to write. Whereas before she was figuratively locked into the role of wife and mother, she is now physically locked into the uppermost room of the summerhouse. Just as she has never been able to leave her prescribed social role, now she cannot leave her wallpapered prison. The narrator's imprisonment echoes all the way back to the female Gothic's classic beginnings in Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Instead of being locked away "in a foreign land... surrounded by vice and violence," the narrator is locked away by the man who should be closest to her and is surrounded by the oppressive patriarchal power structure of her time (Delamotte 206).

The loss of culture and identity crisis are two major factors affecting Janice’s life; furthermore, most of the indigenous children whom were adopted out during the Sixties Scoop will experience inner conflict due to a lack of sense of belonging because they cannot find acceptance within themselves and the world around them. For example, Janice tells Barb “Barb, think about it. I was born here, but I don’t feel at home here and Amelia Earhart does. She’s family and I’m not because the Children’s Aid Society took me away. Doesn’t all this seem a little weird to you?,”(Taylor, 82-83). This part can be described as ironic because even though Janice recognizes her roots, she feels Otter Lake is not her place to be. She never had the opportunity to

leaving behind, with its own culture and beliefs. This is the story of a young

First, Julian starts out by recognizing what he has done. The first quote that shows

A person’s basic human need to belong to people, places and circumstances can fuel many of their actions throughout their life. For some people a sense of belonging can be difficult to obtain. The struggle to belong is represented in many ways in the 1998 memoir, ‘Romulus, My Father’ by Raimond Gaita. Through Gaita’s employment of various writing techniques and his recollection of past events and adversities, the reader becomes aware of the many struggles of the characters, particularly to belong to the Australian culture and landscape. In the 2001 short story ‘Mate’,

Leigh Anne was the first to see the needs of Michael Oher and adjusted to that needs, and eventually by the goodness of her heart and sympathy of what Michael’s life was before she decided to convince her husband to adopt Michael. They sent him to Wingate Christian School for secondary education but he felt discriminated by his schoolmates and even his teachers. But because of Mrs. Tuohy’s kindness, courage and positive attitude, she never gave up on Michael. She treated him as her real son and made him join the School’s football team which they discovered that he has extraordinary athletic skills. Her encouragement and love for Michael made him realized that he can be a better person and learned the game of football and later became a star player and he was offered by different state colleges for college scholarship.