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Good Morning Teachers and Students:

In this presentation, I will discuss about the concept of Belonging in and through 3 texts, one a TV show: Doctor Who: the Day of the Doctor, one a classic 1870s Guy de Maupassant short story Simon’s Papa, and one a Chinese song lyric Beijing Beijing. As you can see, the 3 texts I have chose are vastly different not only in their text types, but also in cultural and social contexts. During this speech, I will demonstrate how they explore aspects of belonging by using a variety of techniques to shape the focus of each text. After that, I will discuss the text that impacted me the most and justify my choice.

In the song Beijing Beijing, the Chinese rock musician Feng Wang talks about spiritual belonging with a focus on the place to be belonged to, which, as the title suggests, is Beijing. In the opening sentences of the lyric, Wang uses personification in “beyond the roaring of the engines and sounds of electronics, I seem to hear his candlewick heartbeat”. By personifying the city, he builds the image of Beijing as strong, unyielding yet fragile, as this is often the image of a grown, responsible man. He also uses juxtaposition in “here I laughed, here I cried, here I’ve lived, and here I’ll die. Here I prayed, here I doubted, here I sought, and here I’ve lost”. In this placing together of contrasting ideas, he repeats for several times the word “here”, emphasising on the place in which the struggles happen and memories belong. In the following line “Beijing, Beijing”, he further emphasises on the place by conveying his emotional attachment towards the city by repetition of the word.

Whereas Beijing is the place in which struggles took place for Feng Wang, the Doctor has struggled through much of his lifetimes trying to reach his home planet Gallifrey. The Day of the Doctor explores this slightly different aspect of belonging by focusing on the character. This involves a number of textual techniques, the most obvious one being putting three incarnations of the same role in the program. Monologue is used when the War Doctor informs of the Timelords and the Daleks of his painful decision to destroy Gallifrey in order to save the rest of the universe from the Time War. This technique places much of the attention on the Doctor and his decision to destroy home. Also, camerawork is used, notably in the last shot: a high angle long shot looking over 12 incarnations of the Doctor on a cloud facing Gallifrey. This implies the significance of the restoration of Gallifrey to the character, again emphasising on the role of the doctor, as the shot contains him(them?) rather than the planet.

Both texts I have discussed so far all have a physical location to be belonged to. However, in Guy de Maupassant’s Simon’s Papa, there is no place to be belonged to, only a family and a community to be not so proud of. In the beginning of the story, the children at Simon’s school rejected him from the group as he did not have a proper family. The author uses hyperbole to show the ignorance of the students masterfully: “the children were dumbfounded by this extraordinary, impossible, monstrous thing -- a boy who had not a papa”. At the end of the story, Simon belonged to a complete family, and the author uses direct speech to illustrate the change this belonging brought about powerfully, as Simon’s new papa told him: “ You will tell them, your schoolmates, that your papa is Philip Remy, the blacksmith, and that he will pull the ears of all who do you any harm.”

Out of these three texts, the one that impacted me the most was Simon’s Papa, not only because the main character has the same name as me, but also the facts the the story was emotionally moving and very thought-inspiring on subjects such as school communities, social protocols, and cultures. Maupassant also explores another aspect of belonging in the society, as he promotes social equality by making Simon’s mother, who gave birth to Simon without marrying, marry Philip at the end of the story.

To conclude, aspects of belonging have been explored in my three vastly different chosen texts through the using of textual techniques to place the focus on different components in the belonging relationship. Beijing Beijing emphasises the place to be belonged to, whereas the Day of the Doctor focuses on the character, and Simon’s Papa describes heavily the complications belonging or not belonging can bring about.