Originally Flashcards
Loss
“I want our own country, I said”
“The street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn’t live anymore”
“bawling, Home Home”
“Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place?”
“I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake”
Change
“Your accent wrong”
“I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake my voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest”
“Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place?”
“feeling only a skelf of shame”
Imagery
“My parents’ anxiety stirred like a lose tooth”
“My tongue shedding its skin like a snake”
“All childhood is an emigration”
“skelf of shame”
Character
“Originally? And I hesitate”
“Your accent wrong”
“Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right space?”
“I stared at the eyes of a blind toy holding its paw”
Contrast
“Your accent wrong” vs “your voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest”
“bawling” vs “singing”
Powerful Emotions
“bawling”
