Morning/Afternoon. fellow pupils. As all of you have had the unfortunate undertaking to analyze belonging as portion of the hsc. and many of you are sitting here districting my address out but belonging to people and topographic point is one of the chief grounds why we want to belong. In Orson Scott Card’s novel Enders Game it is a major battle for immature Ender Wiggin and he feels like he will ne’er belong. Belonging is non welcomed but is still portrayed deeply in Sean Penn’s movie Into the Wild with Chris McCandless ne’er to the full understanding the construct of belonging. These texts demonstrate belonging both otherwise and likewise to Steven Herrick’s free-verse novel The Simple Gift.
The human sort has ever looked for people to belong to as it is one the most basic inherent aptitudes for us worlds to look for. Sean Penn had the challenge to show the life of Chris McCandless. At the age 22 from an flush background Chris felt like he did non belong in the life he was populating and unlike most people his age he got and left his life behind him and “risked… a unrelentingly alone path” . Penn uses narrative to explicate how Chris had the ability to belong to a male parent like adult male ( Ron ) but alternatively Chris continued to walk down the alone way.
Through the flashbacks in scenes on Chris’s life with Rainey and Jan Burres. who practically begged Chris to remain with them and hold the opportunity to belong but still he didn’t take that opportunity. Sean Penn is able to exemplify that Chris’s apprehension of belonging was vague. But still Chris couldn’t find the ability to belong to other people and took his whole life-time to understand that “Happiness is merely existent when shared. ” In The Simple Gift Billy a similar individual to Chris but unlike Chris. Billy had the ability to belong to people and was able to settle down because of his sense of belonging.
Orson Scott Card’s supporter Andrew Wiggin besides known as ‘Ender’ was born into a post-modern society and he is referred to as genetically perfect and intellectually smarter and the age of 8 he was asked to go forth place and travel to develop to go the best military leader. The work forces in charge have one occupation and it “is to bring forth the best soldiers in the World” . Through the utilizations of sarcasm of making a kid soldier Mazor Rackham ( adult male in charge ) assumed that there would no effects to Ender’s life. from making a child military leader. therefore this caused Ender to ne’er belong to anyone. Graff ( the adult male who trained Ender ) “wanted to assist Ender” but would instead make a better soldier. Through the contradiction of Graff desiring to assist Ender but Graff being determined to make a better soldier. which forced Ender into isolation and had no 1 to belong excessively. Orson Scott Card is able to portray the effects of deficiency of belonging on Ender and demo how it affects people. Alike to the Simple Gift and Into the Wild both supporters ne’er felt belonging with their parents. Even both characters may non hold faced such a rough deficiency of belonging compared to Ender but both Billy and Chris still new the toll it can take on person.
Most people want to belong to a topographic point which causes people to seek for belonging and the ability to name a topographic point place. Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game try’s to show. how Ender struggled to belong to topographic points but believed that Battle School was “the merely topographic point in the existence where he belonged. ” Card uses exaggeration to assist the audience understand that the kid Ender had made an fond regard and belonged to put and believe it as place. When Ender got forced to travel on from the lone topographic point Ender liked “He hated it. He wanted to travel back place. back to the Battle School. ” Through short condemning Card is able to exemplify that when ender arrives back to his original place he did non belong. The audience is able to understand the despair for immature Ender to acquire back to his place and belong. Similar to Ender’s Game. The Simple Gift Billy did non now what to make when he knew that he might hold to go forth his freshly founded place.
In Sean Penn’s movie Into the Wild belonging is non portion of Chris’s vocabulary. Chris as a immature adult male had lived in more topographic points than most people can conceive of. Chris’s deficiency of belonging to these topographic points causes him to maintain traveling from topographic point to put even though he had the opportunity to belong. Through tight clip of the movie shows Chris invariably traveling about and show to the audience that Chris does non understand belonging and missed the felicity he was looking for. At the terminal of Chris’s life he is able to find what the true significance of felicity is and that he had the opportunity to belong. Through the close up of Chris’s last breath facial looks shows unhappiness that Chris had topographic points to belong excessively but in his dyeing breath he knew that he had missed his opportunity.
Through this the audience is able to understand that Chris knew that he had the opportunity to belong to many topographic points. Even though both Ender’s Game and The Simple Gift had topographic points to belong both Ender at his house and Billy at Nowheres Vile. cognize how it felt non to belong to a topographic point. Suiting into a topographic point or being able to belong to a group of people is a important portion of the normal person’s life. Sean Penn was able to direct Into the Wild and is able to portray Chris and his really different apprehension of belonging. Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game was able to exemplify the effects of what small belonging can make people. Through these texts and The Simple Gift all three composers were able to show similar and otherwise the effects of belonging to people and topographic point.
