Mrs Midas 10 Marker: Loss Flashcards
“Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first place and the right place?”
Duffy asks a question she is unable to answer. She is unsure of her true identity and believes she has lost her previous Scottish identity due to moving countries.
“My voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest”
Duffy loses her accent over time in the new country while trying to adapt and fit in.
“Lethal”
Relationships can bring death to individuality.
“Running children in a nightmare heat”
Photographer documents the loss of children due to deaths in war, such as in minefields.
“From the aeroplane he stares impassively”
He stares at the war zones he works in as if having lost power to be shocked or moved, due to witnessing this frequently as a part of his job.
“For as long as we are”
Blunt line implies that not all relationships last: the loss of a relationship can hurt.
