Keeping Orchids Flashcards
1
Q
Themes?
A
•Adoption
•Family Relationships
•Mother/daughter relationship
2
Q
About?
A
About Jackie Kay(the writer) meeting her biological mother for the first time and the hardship of this experience.
3
Q
Stanzas?
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15 stanzas
2 lines within each stanza
4
Q
Importance of the Orchids?
(3) Gift from her Mother.
A
Symbolic to the potential of the relationship.
The fragility of kay as a child being left.
The mothers guarded/secretive personality.
5
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Links to?
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