Social Identity
Family –
Your family is the most influential people that are in your life. Unconscious beliefs formed by our family where our early identity is formed by our family of origin. Child’s first sense of being a part of something or a understanding of how the family structure functions, how people respond to each other and the dealing with conflict. This is also the place where you can learn the essential features of life and human connection as unity, loyalty responsibility and identity. This can also show you the dynamics of how family structures can be different or similar to others, leading to children to feel as much as an outsider as their family origin does not match the nuclear family they see in school. This shows each family has unique social family groups. Shaun Tells Chuan - Yao Ling in a Conversation with illustrator Shaun Tan about his childhood how often the books refer back to him growing up as a child and "childlike way of looking at the world." Whilst also having this reference to the world his understands now with "adult concerns such as politics and marriage." He explains how each story is simple they happen to ordinary places it just might be from a abnormal character. "I'm not entirely sure what each combination of image and text means entirely. As usual, I'll leave it to each reader to make up his or her own mind." - Shuan Tan (Ling. 2008. Pp 47) "Nothing actually belongs here or more to the point, the question of belonging is kept open, like a back-alley exit." (Tan. 2001. Pp 9) The impact that our family has on our life is present through out everything that we do, whether this be work, ways that we talk, or how we handle a situations, the same traits that our parents portray or emotions that we interpret through out our own subconscious. Social / Political – Literature is that representation of society, the implications, the stereotypes and our understanding. "Every text is a construction, is a series of decisions designed to craft the text into a certain shape. The intial decisions to write about certain people, place and circumstances" (Mayor- Cox, 2015). Social engineering elements such as the plot, setting, characters and themes and devices socially engineer our understanding of our own and others identity. "We like to look at things from unusual angles, attempt to seek some child-like revelation in the ordinary, and bring our imagination to the task of questioning every day experience. Why are things the way they are? How might they be different? What matters are ideas, feelings and the pictures and words that build them. How can they be playful and subvert our usual expectations? What are the ways that something can be represented to most effectively invite us to think and ask questions about the world we live in?" (Tan. 2001. Pp 5) In a world where nothing is certain we don't have the luxury of being stable, we are dominated by politics and society standards that not everyone is going to be satisfied, where the rich praise the rich and turn a blind eye to the less fortunate, we struggle with the satisfaction of being content in what we have. |
The Lost Thing
I found the short film of The Lost Thing online, this is a clear depiction of society conception and ignorance to others and their need for help, rather just turn a blind eye to the problems of society.