originally Flashcards
we, our
personal pronouns used to emphases the connection the author felt with the place where she came from and reinforces her ownership with the place where she originally came from
red room
suggesting the colour of the seats on the train but also the anger she felt about the decision made about moving as she didn’t get to have a say in such a big change in her life
fell through
suggesting the lack of control she felt about moving as she felt like she’s been thrown out the place she has known as home and forced on a journey to somewhere new.
bawling
suggests sadness and anxiety her brother feels about moving but also reflecting her own as she is also uncertain about the changes
home home
repetition
emphasises the overwhelming sense of loss she’s feeling and separation she’s experience. makes it clear that they are upset about leaving the place where they have known as home
rushed back
word choice
suggests how badly the author wants to just d, she wishes she could just run back home as quickly as possible and run away from the move as the miles are rushing back behind her
the city…rooms
list
emphasises the large amount of places the author is leaving behind and how as she would misses them
also reinforces the sense of isolation and separation
blind
suggests the emotion felt by the author as she’s confused and lost about this new journey, she’s uncertain where this would lead her
holding its paw
suggests how the author is keeping her toy close and how she’s trying ti find a sense of comfort and control over holding tightly onto the doll to make her feel less anxious in this journey
all childhood is an emigration
emigration suggests the act of leaving a country which reinforces the idea of changes in the journey of growing up and everyone will have ton eventually leave their childhood
some are slow… others are sudden.
mixture of long and short sentences
suggets the idea that some changes can happen slowly but some could also be very abrupt and catches u off guard
your accent is wrong
short abrupt sentence
emphasises how quickly her way of speaking has been denied and viewed as wrong
suggesting there’s stilll a barrier more than just speaking the same language
unimagined
suggests the unfamiliar new environment around the author after she’s moved as she’s no longer in somewhere she is familar and comfortable in
somewhere she’s never even picture herself in before
words you dont understand, shouting
suggests how the author thinks the boys are being rude and find their behaviour embrasing
it stresses her that despite speaking the same language there’s still barrier in her to get used to the different accent and ways they speak
my parents anxiety stirred like a posse tooth
just as a loose teeth are something that you often fidget with that can’t be left alone so too her parents anxiety being in her way and getting her frustrated as she’s also experience discomforting the same time as them
the process of losing a teeth also suggest the sign of growing up
you forge…change
list
emphasises how fragile childhood memories are and how they can be so easily left behind in the process of growing up and trying to adapt and get used to he new environment
skelf of shame
just as a skelf is a wooden piece deepply stabbled in the layer of skin which is painfully hard to ignore and get rid of, so too the feeling she feels as her brother is turning into the ‘big boys’ who she once looked down as and how she feels left behind as her brother has already adapted and started confit in with the new environment
my tonuge shredding its skin like a snake
just as a snake shreds its skin to survive in different condition so too the author having to change the language that she has spoken for so long to fit in with the new environment
her accent has a strong link to her identity and her connection with where she originally came from and now its been replaced
river…place
list of things she has lost to emphasis her confusion if the changes were really for the best
rhertorical question also raises doubt over of she has really lost those things suggest we might never lose those things but merges our old identity to the new
originally?
raises doubt for her own identity and her connection from where she came frogs she has to ask herself again for an answer its no longer as simple as it is as she feels like she’s has lost her ownership with her home
and I hesitate
hesitation suggest that she no longer feels like its an easy question to just answer she still doubt herself if she is still a part of her home and if she is still qualified to be one
