Harvie Krumpet Belonging Analysis

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Despite an individuals desire to belong to a group or community, this is not always possible. How do the texts you have studied represent the processes and results of belonging and/or not belonging.

The two text types have represented not belonging through many different techniques. There are many different techniques used for each text. The speech ‘I have a dream’ by Martin Luther King and Harvie Krumpet, a short film represent feelings of not belonging in many different ways. Different techniques are used to express that through the 2 text types. The processes of not belonging are represented differently in each text but have a similar result in the end.

The speech ‘I have a dream’ represent the processes of not belonging as Martin Luther
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Some techniques include having a close up of Harvie’s face whilst he was at school with his friend and had things being thrown at their faces. That represents the process of not belonging by Harvie being made fun of by his friends and not being treated the same as other people in his school. He feels like he doesn’t belong as he is sitting with only one other person and having a close of his face represents the result of how he feels. Another technique that is used in the Harvey Krumpet short film to represent the process of not belonging is the settings at the start of the film. The house is set in Poland in 1922. They have no neighbours and there are no other people around them anywhere. This shows that they don’t belong and don’t fit in with other people through the technique of setting Harvie Krumpet’s house alone to represent the processes and results of not belonging. That is how this text type has represented not belonging through techniques.

The two texts have represented the processes and results of not belonging through different techniques. The results of not belonging for each of the text types were similar. The speech ‘I have a dream’ by Martin Luther King jr and the short film Harvie Krumpet represent feelings of not belonging in different ways but with similar results and different techniques are used for each text type to portray the feeling of not

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