1. The Nature of Belonging
... the need for acceptance as a response to the dichotomous nature of belonging. The human desire to form an authentic (or genuine) connection with people and place when alienated due to pressures of an unacquainted setting is reflected in Spirited Away with further allusions to the migrant experience. This animated bildungsroman (coming of age story, a story of where the character grows up) follows a ... Migrant Hostel, demonstrated through the high modality description of the polish friends as "always shook hands too violently formal addresses I never got used to" and furthers this cultu...
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