Buying Winkles

Question 1

Poverty

Answer 1

“My mother would spare me six-pence”
“Where the bulb had blown out”
“I envied each soul in the hot interior”

Question 2

Direct speech - realism

Answer 2

“Hurry up now and don’t be talking to strange men”

Question 3

Childhood innocence - lack of danger sense

Answer 3

“Don’t be talking to strange men”
“I’d dash from the ghosts on the stairs”

Question 4

Sense of place

Answer 4

“Gardner street”
“Rose-bowl bar”

Question 5

Innocence + joy

Answer 5

“Even in rain I was happy”
“jump every crack in the pavement”

Question 6

Image of winkles

Answer 6

“The winkles would be wet and glisten blue like little night skies themselves”
“The sweetest extra winkle that brought the sea to me”

Question 7

Gender roles

Answer 7

I’d wave up to women at sills or those lingering in doorways and weave a glad path though men heading out for the night

Question 8

Regular occurance

Answer 8

“I’d ask her again to show me the right way”

Question 9

Returns from her heroes quest

Answer 9

“I’d bear the newspaper twist bulging fat with winkles proudly home, like torches”