Redfern Now Stand Up Analysis

Television dramas use the way they are constructed and their production and reception contexts to affect meanings. “Stand Up” from the television series Redfern Now is an episode that features the protagonist Joel who had won an Indigenous scholarship to the prestigious Clifton Grammar. “Tara” from the television show Skippy is an episode where Sonny and Skippy befriend an Indigenous elder, who thinks that he is dying after seeing a helicopter and thinking that it is a death spirit. These two television shows both represent ideas about Aboriginal people, however, due to the different time periods, the Aboriginal people are represented different ways. The shows have a few similarities, but have more differences.

Eckermann’s Circles and Squares and Redfern Now: Stand Up both exhibit how Aborigines do not feel a proper sense of belonging in the white culture. Redfern Now’s protagonist, Joel, is punished when he refuses to sing the Australian anthem, as he ‘doesn’t feel right’ if he were to do so. A high angle shot is used by the director to show how little importance Joel has in the school community. This shows how his individuality is unaccepted, and how he is expected to conform to the school’s traditions. This shows how Joel does not feel a sense of belonging in a white community, which is similar for Circles and

The film depicts the significance of belonging and not belonging; these feelings impact on an individual dramatically. Studying the concept of belonging helps the responder strengthen their own sense of belonging and connection with their surroundings. Learning about how others obtain a sense of acceptance makes it easier for the responder to find their own sense of belonging. The close up shots and mid-range shots of Lena’s room filled with photographs of Ireland conveys how she disowns her aboriginal identity and searches for belonging from the Irish side of her ethnicity. In her current hometown, she feels excluded and isolated from everyone else and strives to connect with her father in Ireland.

Deadly Unna? (1998), is a book based on a true story that tells the tale of non-Indigenous boy Gary ‘Blacky’ Black and his friendship with Dumby Red. Set in Port Victoria in South Australia, Blacky’s evolving relationships with the Indigenous kids in the community inspires him to question the underlying racism that exists in society. In this essay, the author’s methods for conveying the theme of belonging to the reader will be evaluated. Subsequently, Gwynne’s generation of racial segregation in the community, followed by the contrasting types of racism demonstrated by the characters, will be analysed.

How each character’s relationship relates to native Australians grows for better or worse throughout the novel. The novel also shows how Grenville has incorporated each personal lifestyle and how it co-exists with the other. The novel incorporates past and modern views about each society and brings to attention controversial issues about Australia’s convict past and how Aborigines are being ostracized for their way of life and skin pigmentation.

Good Afternoon teachers and students, The following texts express how an individuals understanding of belonging can quickly be changed by the people and place around them. “Jasper Jones a novel written by Craig Silvey”, it is a short story of a boy named Charles Butkins and the events that occurred because he helped Jasper Jones mask the death of Laura Wishart. “Australia by Ania Walwicz”, is attacking the people of Australia in the form of a poem, because of their point of views and attitudes in life. She also hates Australia itself because the people are not welcoming, this is the main point of this poem.

Perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places. The connection to the land for Aboriginals is a very crucial part of their identity, although got many young Aboriginals it is very difficult for them to connect to their indigenous heritage, as well as feeling alienated from the rest of AUstralia. This results in a connection to an alternate part of their heritage resulting in the adoption of a utopian view of that culture. Aboriginals rarely feel a sense of complete belonging due to wide range of sub-cultures within the indigenous community and the seperate nature adopted by them. The tragic nature of indigenous communities is conveyed in the independent AUstralian film Beneath Clouds following two young

People’s perceptions of belonging can change over time, but this isn’t the case for all. When people experience moments of crisis in their lives they sometimes force a change within themselves and that is what helps them find an individual sense of belonging. This is highlighted in many texts and even composers life works. Texts that support this statement include Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle poems, of which I have chosen St Patricks College and Feliks Skrzynecki. Skrzynecki’s poetry expresses the difficulties he faces when change doesn’t occur throughout time, as time alone isn’t a factor and that your sense of belonging is something that comes from within, with or without anyone.

Open mindedness and effort to accept multiculturalism are keys for people to realise the consequences of the prejudistic way they lead their lives. A life that values the presence of normality and neglecting anything that are not considered the norm. Craig Silvey bring this idea into novel ‘Jasper Jones’ through the use of a historical ‘universally recognisable’ small town such as Corrigan set in Western Australia in 1960’s a representation of time when Australians lived in such strict social order that the law cannot be trusted. The use of setting, symbolism and first person narration by the author teach the reader about the reality of ‘White Australia’s’ segregation, how those have an affect on other culture residing in Australia at the time

When an individual’s sense of identity is corrupted through prejudicial attitudes they are left exposed and vulnerable allowing a sense of isolation and displacement in society. An individual’s ability to promote change within is largely influenced by the hardships they experience in their struggle to conform and the connectedness of identity that stems from acceptance. Tara June Winch’s novel Swallow the air, adapts the core concept that the perceptions and ideas of belonging are shaped within personal, cultural, historical and social contexts defining who we are resulting in a true understanding and

People have the longing to belong and to be accepted by a group or community. A sense of Belonging can emerge from the connections and acceptance we have with other people, communities and the larger world. These ideas of belonging are represented in texts which explore aspects of belonging and an individual’s potential to challenge or improve a community group. The film ‘Strictly Ballroom,’ directed by Baz Lurhman, the film ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ directed by Kate Woods and the exaggerated true story of an African American youth’s fight to belong in the song “dance with the devil” by immortal technique all represent ideas of belonging formed by life experiences.

Belonging and alienation is the process of being either excluded or accepted by the society in which you live. Belong is a human conception,mostly considered a fundamental human need and a source of survival, safety, protection and happiness. To belong is usually considered positive and essential for a successful existence:however a negative sense of belonging:found among the displaced, marginalised and uncared for can lead to many social, filial and personal problems that can be almost insurmountable for the individual. The short trop fest film “Be My Brother” by Genevieve Clay 2009, represents these ideas through the films central characters. The film deals with society and people with disabilities feeling displaced within society due to

Marjory Stoneman Douglas said it best with the simple but powerful statement, “You have to stand up for some things in this world”. Even though Douglas was fighting for preservation of the Everglades, Hazel Johnson applied this to her own struggle when she began to fight back about the environmental racism bestowed on herself as well as her community. She had been outright tricked, lured to a black neighborhood intended for WWII veterans with an abundance of arbor and flowers just to conceal the nasty truth that laid beneath. It took a page out of the concentration camps of the same war, tricking the vulnerable into accepting the situation only to reveal the horrible truth once it was too late. When her husband died of

The fact that Shaun Tan grew up in Perth, he said was one of the main reasons for making so many novels based on the concept of belonging, he describe Perth as being one of the most isolated cities in the world, sandwiched between a vast desert and a vaster ocean, and they lived in a “freshly minted northern suburb that was devoid of any clear cultural identity or history”.

Belonging comes from an understanding, or the knowledge that an external sense of being comes from an internal sense of connection and safety. This critical analysis will portray how the text “Stolen” by Jane Harrison relates to the concept of belonging. Stolen is a play that tells the stories of 5 Aboriginal children that were stolen away from their families and were forced to grow up in institutions, following the European way of life. The children were segregated from their communities and treated as inferiorly. Their worth was seen as minimal and only useful to Europeans as slaves. “Stolen” is an example of not belonging to the environment that one is living in. The children are stolen from their parents, their culture and traditions,