h is for hawk

Question 1

context

Answer 1

• father just dies
• bird help her with grief

Question 2

‘dont want you going home with the wrong bird’

Answer 2

foreshadowing bc she almost does
he means wrong specific bird
she means wrong depending on her emotional connection with the birds

Question 3

short sentences - another…concentration..causetion.’

Answer 3

• shes very focused
• very instense
• must get the right bird
• ver important to her
  -builds up the anticipation and suspense
• attention to detail

Question 4

onomatopoeia and repetition of thump

Answer 4

• tension
• everything happening very slowly - build up of tension
• power and strngeth of the hawk

Question 5

‘the air turned syrupy , slow, flecked with dust’

Answer 5

• metaphor
• growing power of bird
• atmosphere around the box is changing as the bird is being released
• upmost p[ower
• BUILD OF TENSION
• raises q abt what the bird is going to be like

Question 6

long syndetic list once the bird has been released

Answer 6

• overwhelming
• shift from anticipation to awe
• sensory language - sound and movement
• tricolon - huge bird - different parts of bird
• repetition of enormous - she in awe
• pathetic fallacy - shange in mood - connection - sunlight = beauty and strength and power

Question 7

‘primaries cutting the air, her feathers raised like scattered quills from a frecktful porpentine’

Answer 7

• cutting - violence - fear - strength / power
• simile - fighting back - agression

Question 8

my heart jumps sideways

Answer 8

metaphor
- element of fear
- jumping - exited

Question 9

section after line 20

Answer 9

• majesty - powerful, dignity, power
• she is a conjuring trick - mysterious/powerful/magical/not possible
• fallen angel - god-like power/ dark sinister??- tied up
• semantic field of light
• griffon - eagle and lion - power and fear
• reflects all the mixed emotions chaotic shes feeling internally
• short sentences - disjointed thoughts and head space

Question 10

‘like a turkey in a butchershop’

Answer 10

• vulnerability
• tied down
• restricted
• human control\
• she has empathy for the hawk

Question 11

describing the man as ‘perfectly calm’

Answer 11

• contrasts with her chaos of thoughts
• father figure
• nurturing
• SKILL
• care and controlling

Question 12

i love this man - said by narrator

Answer 12

• she sees him as a father figure to the hawk
• could reflect her relationship with her father
• she can help this bird-like her father helped her when she was young and vulnerable and scared

Question 13

short sentences after she finds out it wasn’t her hawk

Answer 13

• disjointed - difficult to process
• thought process - internal narrative
• disappointment
• mirros the beginning - you want the wrong bird

Question 14

new hawk - ‘she was smokier and darker and much much bigger….”

Answer 14

• semantic field of darkness - contrasts with light on previous hawk
• wailed - contrasts with sounds of previous hawk

Question 15

ellipsis …..

Answer 15

• confusion
• concern
• try to get out of it