CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY X LONDON

Question 1

similarities

Answer 1

first person narrator
challenges power of humans
change
restrictions

Question 2

how do they both use a first person narrator

Answer 2

C- ‘dem tell ME’

L- (sense of trust through personal pronouns)

Question 3

how do they both challenge the power of humans from high authorities

Answer 3

C- government through phonetic spelling ‘dem tell me’, emphasises separation speaker feels between british and himself, he is proud of his heritage
L- church for not helping poor ‘blackening church’, shows he is criticising church, which is supposedly a place of hope yet it ‘appals’ children

Question 4

DIFFERENCE of change

Answer 4

C-presents a hopeful tone and a desire for change by using black historical figures
L- cyclical structure, suffering is repetitive and nothing can change it due to result of human power

Question 5

how do they both show restrictions

Answer 5

C- ‘bandage me eye with me own history/ blind me to me own identity’, bandages = healing but here it’s used to prevent him from his history
L- ‘mind-forged manacles’ ‘ban’, manacles= type of chain, ‘ban’ is a restriction placed by law, so they are metaphorically imprisoned