Cottages Moment Flashcards
Kathy’s narration is clear throughout the moment showing that she isn’t partaking in this change in behaviour and she’s just watching Ruth change herself. Shows Ruth always wanting to be ahead and star of the show
‘I began to notice’ (Kathy)
Simile, symbolic of their life being like a show (hailsham isn’t a real school, they aren’t real humans, and everything has been planned out for them), Ruth is the director and has to tell Tommy what to say and when
“Like they were in a play and he’d forgotten his lines’
Makes the audience sympathise with the characters as they will never know what a ‘normal’ family is like or how a mother + father would act. The closest they know to a ‘normal’ family is what they see on TV.
‘Like a mother and father might do in a normal family’
