The Castle
“Texts convey certain attitudes and beliefs that help define who we are and how we relate to the world around us”
Discuss the attitudes and beliefs that are highlighted in you prescribed text and two related texts of your own choosing.
The term global village refers to the idea that individual countries and communities are affected by the media, electronic communications and cheap air travel that their traditions and beliefs are challenged. These challenges may be positive or negative as it makes people to reassess their attitudes and beliefs. There have been numbers of areas of challenges and two of them are food and multi-culturalism. These challenges are explicitly presented in the film directed by Rob Stitch, The Castle, and a number of related materials.
One aspect of the global village which is effectively represented by Sitch in The Castle is the attitude towards the food from diverse cultures which exists in Australia. Kerrigan family is very contented with their rather bland and preservative diet which they share in their family home. Sitch represents this situation by repeatedly filming the dining of Kerrigan family. Sitch focuses on the food menus and they are just ordinary Australian food. This shows that Kerrigan family has yet not encountered many diverse food cultures such as Vietnamese and Thai which exists in Australia.
Dale, the narrator, comments in an enthusiastic tone that, “Dad thinks mum is the greatest cook on earth” so when she serves them a rather ordinary looking cake Daryl asks, “what do you call that, darl?’” Sal’s simple answer of “Sponge cake” sums up that this family have yet to really come to grips with the astronomical influence of the global village on Australian cuisine. He states glowingly just how he feels about Sal’s cooking when he says, “Why go out to a restaurant when this keeps coming up night after night”. Eating meals together is represented as an important family tradition.
Daryl’s attitude strongly
Discuss the attitudes and beliefs that are highlighted in you prescribed text and two related texts of your own choosing.
The term global village refers to the idea that individual countries and communities are affected by the media, electronic communications and cheap air travel that their traditions and beliefs are challenged. These challenges may be positive or negative as it makes people to reassess their attitudes and beliefs. There have been numbers of areas of challenges and two of them are food and multi-culturalism. These challenges are explicitly presented in the film directed by Rob Stitch, The Castle, and a number of related materials.
One aspect of the global village which is effectively represented by Sitch in The Castle is the attitude towards the food from diverse cultures which exists in Australia. Kerrigan family is very contented with their rather bland and preservative diet which they share in their family home. Sitch represents this situation by repeatedly filming the dining of Kerrigan family. Sitch focuses on the food menus and they are just ordinary Australian food. This shows that Kerrigan family has yet not encountered many diverse food cultures such as Vietnamese and Thai which exists in Australia.
Dale, the narrator, comments in an enthusiastic tone that, “Dad thinks mum is the greatest cook on earth” so when she serves them a rather ordinary looking cake Daryl asks, “what do you call that, darl?’” Sal’s simple answer of “Sponge cake” sums up that this family have yet to really come to grips with the astronomical influence of the global village on Australian cuisine. He states glowingly just how he feels about Sal’s cooking when he says, “Why go out to a restaurant when this keeps coming up night after night”. Eating meals together is represented as an important family tradition.
Daryl’s attitude strongly