“The Arrival” Annaylisis

The Arrival, illustrated by Shaun Tan, presents the visual fib of a migrants experience as he leaves his infrastructure and family to create a better life for them in an unseen country, mirroring a migrants life upon migrating to a 1990s New York City, masking his experience of poverty, home sickness, language difficulties, separation from family and loss of social status.The blueprint of the book was to represent what many immigrants experienced and reflect their memories of travelling to exotic countries, and for Shaun Tan to depict his experience of growing up in integrity of the most isolated cities in the world, as he discovered a sense of separation, an unclear conception of identity and questioned what it means to be Australian. The target audience is immigrants who can relate to this book, although there is no item audience as it can relate to everyone for the book questions every mean solar day experiences.The concept of belonging is explored within this text with th e commit of language features. It uses flashbacks delineate in a dark sepia tone, suggesting the past and pain of the injury of these stories. The sharing of these experiences bonds the arrival to the people within this new environment, creating a pasture where he feels he can belong. Symbolism is employed, such as the foreigner creature and the white origami bird who befriend the father. They are representatives of how belonging is about(predicate) people and relationships and not the locations for these are unstable.This acts as a reminder of where he comes from and inspires him to continue through difficult times. The visual angles create emotion, tension and a sense of individual opinion on belonging among a triad person narrative. It uses visual metaphors such as the dragons cut through that, as a faceless threat, slithers through the old town, providing the push for budge and the creation of a new place to belong. There is an absence of write descriptions, which allow s individual interpretation and as a result, the belonging experiences of one family becomes a reflection of many.The text has affected my response by having no words, whence allowing me to create meaning for myself. I was positioned in the characters shoes with the absence of writing, and hence made my own interpretations. It showed me how it felt to not belong visually with the use of images of different cities around the world. The texts develop my understanding of belonging because it showed me migration is an inessential naval division of human history. The visual text allowed me to understand what feeling and emotions are felt when you are taken away from your family and then moving to another country.