sandpiper Flashcards

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Setting_ Narrator

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London
urban
Food
Beef, Fish and Chips
Grocery store

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Main character -narrator

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European

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What stands out about this character

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Doesn’t fit in.
(Eg. If I tried to do the shopping the prices trebled)

(My foreignness which had been so charming, began to irritate him.)

Doesn’t try to fit in.

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What are the themes in this extract

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Loneliness
Clash of Cultures
Motherhood
Nature/the natural world

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Loneliness

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(Quotation)

“My only playmate is Lucy”

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Clash of Cultures

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(Quotation)

pg385 “ They call the wooden blinds ‘sheesh’ and tell me its the Persian word for glass.”

“So that which sits next to it is called by its name.”

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Motherhood

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(Quotation)

“My Lucy, Lucia, Limbah”

“I murmured as I kissed her and let go”

“I put my lips to her neck”

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Nature/natural wolrd

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(Quotation)

“The Sea unceasingly shifts and stirs and sends out fingers, paws, tongues to probe the see.

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key Devices

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Repetition
Metaphor
personification
vivid imagery

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Symbolism

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narrator is the sandpiper, always caught between

the two contrasting idea eg husband and daughter.

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