When planning essays for an assessment (week 2 term 1) is it best to plan one for:
- place
- groups
- family/relationships
- Changing in belonging/choice in whether to belong (eg if characters choose to belong)
Any other possible questions there could be would be helpful to know, thanks!
I'm doing Romulus too!! I'm planning to write some broad essays on all of those topics but like jnney said, its best to write a super generalised one where its easy to combine a lot of those ideas into one and the thing with belonging is that there is a lot of interlinking and interrelationships.
Also, with Romulus, belonging to self is also a consideration because he was a very strong sense of morals which he doesn't deviate from and he and Hora have a strong sense of 'karacter'. There's some massive quote somewhere in Romulus too where Raimond lists a whole heap of things he owes to his father and Hora like "I know what a good workman is because of my father..." - something like that.
And with Christine, she quite obviously doesn't belong but its not by choice, its because of mental illness. You can also introduce belonging to self here, and argue that because of her mental illness, she had difficulty in establishing a true sense of self and so could not identify with people or identify the group/place/people to which she would comfortably belong.
Hope that helps a little
