The Simple Gift and the Concept of Belonging

Belonging Essay plan 1. Simple render Relationships and dictates interconnect to provide an individual with a strong wiz of belong * Relationships and the concept of Belonging sometime(a) measure and billystick * Genuine relationships fasten individuals in identity, worth and connection * Relationships enrich an individuals sense of belong * baton and old Bills relationship helps get down about a positive change in both of them * Their bandage brings positive change to the grief-stricken old Bill and provides Billy with a chance for a fresh start and a future in Bendarat.Old Bill provides Billy with advice, guidance and a home. * Billy helps old Bill limit his drinking and smoking addictions and provides him with breakfast in the mornings * Billy utter to not walk gone the pub, old Bill finds himself walking last(prenominal) Jessies old school the next day instead of going past the pub * Hands/shaking/as I walked back to town,/ alert not to go past a pub * Herrick uses e njambment to straines how serious this change is for Old Bill and his desire to keep moving send rather than continuing to be overwhelmed by his grief Places and the concept of belonging * Throughout the free verse poems of the Simple Gift, there are a series of places that either enrich or destroy an individuals sense of belonging Longlands Road * Longlands Road does not inspire Billys sense of belonging.Billy lived with his alcoholic and abusive father in Longlands route His father created an environment that did not support the feeling of belonging by giving Billy hard backhanders * Billys action of throwing rocks upon the roofs of the houses in longlands Road shows the strong negative attitude he has towards his street and altogether that it represents * I throw one rock on the roof/of from each one deadbeat no hoper/ *hithole downtrodden house in Longlands road, Nowheresville * Herrick uses descriptive language to emphasis the feeling of alienation that such a place arouse s for BillyCarriage 1864 * Billy sets up home in an abandoned freight train carriage, it becomes an important place of belonging and security for Billy * As this carriage is shared with Billys friends Old Bill and Caitlin, it creates a positive emotion towards the carriage. * Without the telephoner of Old Bill the carriage would have been very dull and solitary(a) * It was like a little cave, a warm, safe little cave.Billys cave, Herrick uses this simile to describe the carriage. * Through the relationship with Old Bill, Billy quickly feels a sense of place and comfort inner it by labelling it my motel Bendarat. * Billy further demonstrates his sense of belonging to the carriage when he gives Caitlin a business card with the carriage as his address. This is a emblematical gesture, which shows Caitlin that he feels this is home for now. 2. Pursuit of Happiness