It is through these two that Tyler, married until his death to an Iranian-born psychiatrist, quietly explores the notions of belonging and alienation that raise this novel above the merely entertaining.
Importantly, this notion of belonging underscores that it is something which must be subjectively experienced; it cannot be determined from one's objective status.
The administration argued: The notion of 'chaplaincy' belongs to Christian chaplains, but also to psychologists.
The sense of community draws influence from connectivity, social values and trust (Kilpatrick et al. 2003) and creates a notion of belonging (culminating into mutual benefit) and responsibility towards the community (Jacobs 1961).
In wrenching scenes, occasionally playing out under rare but torrential summer rains, some of the Syrians here spoke of the pain of flight in a region where land — as well as the attachment to it — stands as one of the most visceral notions of belonging.
Yet narratives, according to Prosser, are central to the accounts of transsexuals and such narratives involve the notion of home and belonging (1995, 488).
