Why People Need To Belong

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Do you have a need to belong? Do you want to be part of a certain group? Do members of this group except you? What are you willing to do to belong? People every day make the decision of changing themselves to belong. Many authors depict how the characters need to belong. Many things influence what you belong to. Your personality can let you belong or it can keep you out of the group. What you look like or what you like to do can influence what you belong to. Everyone has certain groups they belong to, like teams, clubs, or just a group of friends. Authors in all styles of writing have ways of capturing people’s need to belong to a society where stereotypes don’t define you, the boys group, and a good family along with influences such as being a go-getter, a tomboy, and a reluctant thief.
The need to belong really shows in the film Zootopia by Walt Disney Pictures. The main character Judy Hopps identifies as a go-getter who wants to belong to a community where she isn’t seen as a weak bunny. When Judy finally makes it to Zootopia as a cop, in the movie the chief gives Judy the job as parking duty while all the other cops get to be in charge of cases. Judy knows that the cases are for the
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nothing girls could compare with it. Boys welcomed me to baseball too... known as a boy’s arm…” (Dillard,1). The author’s description demonstrates how Annie is a tomboy who just wants to be with the boys. The author does this by explaining how she really only plays with the boys. She doesn't care and is not interested in what the girls are doing. The boys except her as a part of their group.She isn’t following the stereotypical girl at the time who just plays inside. She wants to be outside,running around, and getting

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