Belonging – the Simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick and Ort – the Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Anderson

To start is to fit in, or to be justifiedly placed in a specified position or surroundings. The head of belong is a dynamic and an essential aspect of human biography which can come through, due to the connections behave with the concepts of identity, place, relationships, acceptance and understanding to oneself and opposite people. These aspects of belonging are demonstrated through the free verse novel, The honest Gift by Steven Herrick, and the fairy tale of The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson.In the very early stages of The simple gift, Herrick displays sixteen year old, baton Lucketts, sense experience of alienation by using his first person roughage to highlight social issues such as hostility within his family, leading it to break down, and his emotion of loneliness and worthlessness of identity. This is conveyed in the poem big lands Road, where billys internal conflict is shown through his un-satisf execute of his professional community in which he liv ed in and was a part of, go forth him disappointed and as well as a sense of embarrassment towards his identity.He states this whole the way with the words, My Street. My Suburb. , showing terms of ownership of the place in which his identity presently belongs too, but does not like, giving us a sense of in closure and dis musical arrangement. This continues as he describes his street, as he throws rocks on the pileus of each deadbeat no-hoper shithole lonely downtrodden ho substance abexercising in Long lands Road, Nowheresville. The use of colloquialism of wands vulgar language, further demonstrates wands displacement, dislike and disappointment towards long lands road, symbolising a decaying and depressing environment. tipy past ends up taking control of himself and moving turn out of home. Billy then finds himself on a freight train, in search of a new place to go to, to try and gather a olfactory property of belonging. After travelling two kilometres down the track, he finds himself freeze cold. The harshness of the cold on the train indicates billys insecurity about belonging and this indicates that Billy desires to feel warm and needed instead of cold and isolated. He then encounters the train driver, Ernie. Ernie sees billy and has a confabulation with him.He tells him to make a cuppa if you destiny, and heres few sandwiches, too oftentimes salad for my liking Keep warm Ive got a train to drive. This making Billy feeling accepted and belonging, and creation make feel at home by Ernie and a sense of warmth. Herrick has use juxtaposition to demonstrate how Billy has gone from being cold, to feeling a sense of warmth that he is instantaneously being comforted with Ernie to the townspeople of Bendarat. Herrick also creates a contrast between billys dada and Ernie, There are men like Ernie and there are another(prenominal) men, men like my dad. emphasizing Billys like for Ernies character, as Ernie makes Billy feel like he belongs. In t he chapter of Locks and Keys quondam(a) Bill gives the keys to the old home to Billy and Caitlin. This scene symbolises aging Bill giving over the simple gift to Billy. It also gives Billy the feeling of being accepted by mature Bill and belonging. He also learns not only to understand himself but to also understand Old Bill and Caitlin. Billy also understands how to identify his identity and sense of placement by realising I can decide what I really want to do here in Bendarat.In the last chapter, Denouements have been made, and let out ends have been tied up, where the relationships between Caitlin and Old bill are now stronger and reconnected. The relationship is symbolised through the motif of Old Bill and Bill overlap the Weet-Bix for breakfast. The words and I looked up into the sky, the deep blue sky that Old Bill and I shared, demonstrate that belonging can go far, and the relationship between Old bill and Billy can advance together stronger, as well as the identities of both characters are enabled to evolve further, to enrich the self-worth, self-esteem and self-growth of the individuals.Similarly, In The Ugly Duckling, when the last duckling was hatched, the other ducks took a look at him and stereotyped and judged the duckling, It is very large and not at all like the others. I wonder if it really is a joker. The duckling was left out of society, with the comparable sense of loneliness and displacement, because it was not the same as the rest of society. The mother duckling then took her ducklings down to the moat, to prove that the queasy duckling was a normal duckling. Despite all the judgment of the others, the mother took self-esteem of her son, see how nicely he uses his legs, and how straight he holds himself. The mother then tried to let in her son into the community, Ill lead you out into the mankind and introduce you to the duck yard. But there too, the duckling got mocked and taunted, what and misfortunate looking fellow, Hes t oo big and strange, lowering the ducklings self-esteem and self-worthiness. And once more the mother stuck up for her son, let him alone, He isnt doing any harm. The unattractive duckling that, looked so ugly was pecked and pushed about and made fun of. Anderson has created a sense of sympathy from the audience from using emotive anguage and alliteration. It got so bad, that the ugly duckling got trail and buffeted by everyone including his brothers, sisters and even his own mother. He was nipped, pecked, and kicked by the girl who fed him. So he ran away and flew over the fence. The use of action verbs create the scene of the duckling being a defenceless creature being forced to flee, as a result of the social rejection on all fronts. Similarly to Billy, as he left home as he was abused by his drunken father as well.After ladder through a great hunt, the ugly duckling had encountered a flock of birds that appeared out of the reeds. The duckling had never seen birds so beautif ul. They were dazzling white with long graceful necks. They were twines. They expressed a very strange cry as they unfurled their magnificent locomote to fly from this cold land, away to warmer countries and to open waters The use of bucolic language used by the composer to describe the swans triggers us to upgrade an insight of how much love the ugly duckling has for the creatures.Like the change in temperature Billy experiences on the train, the magnificent birds fly from the cold land that the ugly duckling is stuck on as it experiences unacceptance by others and not being able to belong in society, as the swans move into a more accepted, belonging environment together. He then had to go through the hardships and wretchedness of the cruel winter, to make it into the beautiful springtime. He swept through the air much strongly than before. He flew over the water and re encountered the splendid swans. bowing his head, thinking he would be attacked and killed, seeing his mirrore d self. And was no endless the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, grey bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan The composer has shown us that after all the hardships the ugly duckling had endured that, he finally imbed where he belonged. It was a place of acceptance amongst the other swans. After a life-time time of torcher and alienation he could be happy, because he belonged where he was loved.Belonging is not a set list that must include a connection to people, places, objects and to the wider world, but everyones idea of belonging is dissimilar but it involves a deeper emotional sense of fulfilment and connection made with yourself, the relationships you have, and with the wider world, but this is different for each person depending on their needs and life experiences, thus forming the foundation of an individuals self-image, self-worthiness, self-esteem and self-growth.