The Deliverer Flashcards
Analyse ‘crippled or dark or girls’
-syndeton/tricolon dehumanises the children and reduces them down to their labels. Iterestingly ‘being a girl’ is. alsos grouped as a form of disability or otherness
‘covered’ ‘stuffed’ abandoned’
minimalist verbs reflects a sense of horror in the casual manner in which mothers are taking their children’s lives.
‘one of them was dug up by a dog’
plosive alliteration emphasises the sense of horror in the casual manner the mothers are taking their children’s lives.
‘one of them was dug up by a dog’
plosive alliteration emphasises the sense of horror around the mother’s actions. The younger girls are also seen as secondary or almost inferior to animals.
‘was bone or wood, something to chew.’
Minimalist language to empasise the casual way in which the children are disegarded and thrown out.
‘This is the one my mother will bring.’
pronoun use presents the speaker as detatched and lacking identity.
‘her mother tried to bury her.’
Minimalist language representing the brutality of her mothers actions
‘This girl grows up on video tapes’
Metaphor for jer sense of detatchment from her trauma but as she grows up she revisits memories from her troubled youth.
‘Outside village boundaries’
suggests that the mothers actions are not accepted by wider society. The mothers attempt to hide their grusome actions.
‘where mothers go to squeeze out life,’
Pun representing how the mothers both give and take away life, not fulfilling their maternal duties.
‘Trudge home to lie down for their men again’
Single lined stanza used to humanise the mother and put blame onto the patriarchy. The blunt reality is revealed that thr women lack the agency to end the cycle of brutality.
