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The ambiguity of belonging
The ambiguity of belonging
The ambiguity of belonging
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crooked letter, crooked letter The ambiguity of belonging Larry & Silas
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THE AMBIGUITY OF belonging is not accepted by the white kids, althought it should not be too difficult for him at a time when skin color alone conveyed an automatic sense of privilege LARRY: he prefers reading -> his interests make him stand out when he wants to fit in because he is considered strange, nobody wants to risk exclusion from their peer group by getting too friendly with him after Cindy Walker's disappearance he is ostracized by the local population -> no customers at his repair shop -> he becomes more and more isolated from society - he comes to accept that he will always been an outsider. he cannot imagine ever being completely accepted for who he is SILAS I • the ambiguity lies in his family background only son of a black maid, now living in relative poverty in small town Mississippi. he is a new boy at the middle school -> he assimilates quickly t is accepted by his peers, helped by his baseball skills he doesn't know his father: he is secure in his place in society : - she has a responsible job, a loving girlfriend + is a figure of respect in the small town his discovery that Carl Off was his father, along with the realization that this makes Larry his half-brother forces him to re-assess his identity she is not the person he thought he was connection between Larry...
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+ Silas is ambiguous пе goes from disliking his new home to feeling as if he belonged there he is torn away from his old life + forced a completely different one to live Silas develops a sense of belonging to the place where his roots are