Identity Flashcards
1
Q
The Emigree: QUOTES
A
“Cannot break my original view, the bright, filled paperweight”
“I am branded with the impression of sunlight”
“That child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, it opens and spills a grammar”
“I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight.”
“My city comes to me in it’s own white plane. It lies in front of me docile as paper”
“I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”
2
Q
The Emigree: KEY THEME
A
War and conflict leads to a loss in identity.
3
Q
Checking out me history: QUOTES
A
“Blind me to me own identity”
“I carving out me own identity”
“Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me”
“Bandage up me eye with me own history”
4
Q
Checking out me history: KEY THEME
A
Power of man and abuse of power led them to lose their identity and who they are.
