Originally Flashcards
“which fell through the fields”
WORD CHOICE
“fell”
•loss of control/ no control in the move/ forcibly removed from a loving and safe home
“bawling”
WORD CHOICE
•extreme distress/ uncontrollable sadness/ hysterical
“home”
REPETITION
•longing to return home back to comfort + stability + safety
“miles rushed back to the city”
•everything is going too quick for the writer/ loss of control
“stared at the eyes of a blind toy”
•uncertain/ no idea what the future holds/ lack of understanding
“holding its paw”
•provides the writer with comfort and reassurance as its a toy from her old home
“all childhood is an emigration”
•speaker understands that change is inevitable
“some are slow…others are sudden”
•confusion + lack of control
“resigned”
•passive/ starting to accept/ transition into acceptance/ shes just there
“where no one you know stays”
•LONELY/ isolated
“corners which seem familiar”
•confusion/ unknowing as she doesn’t know where she is
“unimagined”
•fear of the unkown/ scared
“your accent wrong”
•felt excluded/ childish desire to fit in
“big boys”
•suggests feeling threatened/ scared because of hostility
“eating worms”
•felt horrified/ shocked/ sickened at their behaviour
“shouting words you dont understand”
•feels alienated/ excluded
“stirred like a loose tooth”
•constant sense of un comfort due to her parents anxiety rubbing off the speaker
“i want our country”
•longing to return home + to comfort
“But”
•change from exclusion to acceptance
“skelf of shame”
•skelf is a small thing that doesn’t bother you as much/ shift from previous revulsion to only slightly bothered
“shedding its skin like a snake”
•natural development/ now feels included where she previously felt alienated by her accent
“just like the rest”
•fits in/ contrast to previous exclusion/ easier to fit in
“do i only”
•asking herself important questions about identity/ change in perspective/ shows assimilation
“originally? And i hesitate”
•uncertainty about her origins/ contrasts her previous refusal to accept the move
