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title

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escape

life to death

passage through life - bible

rite of passage - something you have to go through - tradition

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‘once she is halfway up there, crouched in her bikini’

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in media res

female experience

in the liminal - uncertainty

exposure

foetus position

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‘family’s house’

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comfort

represents safety

not her own, implies that she does not feel as though she belongs there

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‘trembling, she knows that the one thing she must not do it to think of the narrow windowsill’

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fear

leave house but scared to

not sturdy - represents mental state?

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‘sharp drop of the stairwell’

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plunged into womanhood

unprepared

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‘she must keep her mind on the friend with whom she is half in love

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keep sanity and innocence

thinks she’s in love - strong teenage emotions

imperative - certainty

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‘blond gravel somewhere beneath her’

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friends have made that transition

she is still young

top of the hierarchy - hasn’t faced challenges yet

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‘open window’

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opportunity to still be a girl

all the opportunities in womanhood

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‘flimsy, hole punched, aluminium lever’

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unstable

going back to childhood is difficult

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‘length of her whole body, leaning into the warm flank of the house’

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judgement - body is the focus - half in

wants to go back in

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‘but first she steadies herself, still crouching’

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hiding

scared of adulthood

trying to dismiss fears - disjunction

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‘hot beneath her toes and fingertips’

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pressure of growing up

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‘tiny breasts’

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sexualised as you get older

things for people to comment on

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‘what can she know of the way the world admits us less and less the more we grow?’

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less freedom

can’t wear what we want

career discrimination

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‘for now, both girls seem lit, as if from within’

‘gold stud earrings in the first one’s ears’

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angelic - something elevated

not corrupted by adulthood

untouched

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’ the house exists only for them’

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don’t have to worry - safe space

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‘long, grey’

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elongated vowels

lifeless

symbol of adulthood

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‘far away from the mother who does not trust her with a key’

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not responsible enough

still a child , yet expected to act like an adult

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‘electroplating factory’

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spatial shift

childhood is fun

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‘flush faced secretary’

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fricative alliteration

stress/ menopause

assistant - women are irrelevant

most secretaries are female

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‘head full of the evening class’

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no time in the day

bored

wants a hobby

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‘trip of a lifetime’

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get away from boredom

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‘astrology column’

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trying to find a meaning in life

hopeful

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‘a girl - thirteen’

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unlucky number

scene from romeo and juliet

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‘standing in next to nothing in the driveway opposite, one hand flat against her stomach’

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judgemental society - influence

female weight

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‘shielding her eyes to gaze up at a pale calf’

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not grown

innocent

off sexualised body parts

young

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‘silver anklet’

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majestic

precious

innocence should be protected

world is a magical place

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‘dropping gracefully into the shade of the house’

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dropping into woman hood