Aunt Julia Flashcards
Very loud and very fast
Confident
Bold
Not shy
Adds to maccaigs confusion
I could not answer her
I could not understand her
Repetition
Feels helpless and frustrated
Regret
She wore men’s boots
Unexpected
Not very feminine
Purposeful and practical
When she wore any
Usually barefoot
Unusual
Macaig likes this quirkiness
Main themes of Aunt Julia
Lack of communication
Survival
Traditions
Stained with peat
Bare feet
Tough existence
Survival
Paddling with the treadle of the spinning wheel
Unusually long line to symbolise rhythm and time it took to spin
She was buckets and water flouncing into them
Metaphor to emphasise strength and how often he saw her carrying water as there wasn’t any running water there at the time
Flouncing - onomatopoeia gives impression of water moving or bouncing
Seagulls voice
Metaphor
Harsh
Incomprehensible
Loud
Strong foot
Symbol of her
Hardworking and powerful from manual labour
Crickets being friendly
Summer
Happy
Good memory
Winds pouring wetly
Remembering the weather
Stormy weather would cause gusts of wind and rain to blow in your face as you turned around the end of a house
Remembers his aunt like this sensation of walking round a corner into the wind and rain, this shows energy, that she was uncontainable and a shock to the system
Brown eggs
Lived off the land
Remembering chickens kept
Raw, natural
Black skirts
Not fancy
Remembers her like that
A keeper of three penny bits
Careful with her money
