During the first sentence of the belonging article, I think it relates back to Cyrano especially.When Alan says,”We need others who accept us, who embrace us, who include us.”shows why Cyrano does things like fighting one hundred men and messing up a play.Also in the very next sentence when Alan says,”
There is great security that comes from knowing you belong and powerful insecurities arise from not knowing it.” describes why Cyrano gets easily offended and assumes everyone is always looking or has something bad to say about his nose.You could see this the most by his fear of telling Roxanne how he really feels and Cyrano really suffers from this insecurity.
The quote that says “ if you try to save your life you’ll lose it”, shows why Cyrano doesn’t have many friends.He has been teased and backstabbed his whole life so tends to push others away.Because of those tragic events about him being teased about his nose if you aren’t a close friend of Cyrano he tends to lack respect for you.

“It’s a bit ironic that the need to belong accompanied by the insecurity of feeling

you don’t belong results in behaviors aimed at finding a place to belong that actually serve to perpetuate the experience of not belonging.” This quote explains why Cyrano takes absurd measures like really through the enemy twice everyday to deliver just to fit.He does outrageous stuff,so the people’s attention will no longer be on his nose but merely on his actions.
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