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FELIKS SKRZYNECKI: Places affect our sense of belonging through traditions and vogues. 1. Feliks Skrzynecki is a poem about the authors (Peter Skrzyneckis’) stepfather. The poem demonstrates the strong feeling of belonging Peter feels with his family. However it also expresses the detachment Peter feels from his cultural heritage. This is shown in the lines ‘Remnants of a language I inherited unknowingly’. The use of first person (‘I’) through out the poem is used to show the perception that Peter has of his father, and how he always compares himself to his father. In stanza 3 we get the sense that Peter does not feel as if he belongs with his father and his fathers’ friends, ‘That formal address I never got used to’. The entire poem†¦show more content†¦Boy: Places affect our sense of belonging through traditions and customs. Boy is set in 1984 in the small coastal town in New Zealand. It is the story of a child whose troubles of fitting in with his friends are doubled when his father returns home after seven years in jail. Boy’s father smokes, drinks excessively, swears, and steals, leading Boy to believe that he must copy his father and do these things to belong in society. Over time boy loses the trust of the rest of his family and friends. Taika Waititi uses 3It shows Boy in transition, realizing that his father is a bad influence, and then changing his perspective and actions. Our perception creates a place where we belong 2. Boy believes that his father is over seas for important business. On his fathers return home from jail, Boy never leaves his side in fear that he will once again leave without him. When Boys’ friends invite him out to play he rejects the offer and continues to follow his father. He see’s himself as a man. 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