The Telegram Flashcards
Analysis of “strange missile”
Literally, a missile is a weapon created to destroy and harm people or buildings.
Metaphorically, the innocuous piece of yellow paper destroys lives and word choice of “strange” suggests confusion of reality.
“Strange plague” analysis and techniques
Word choice, metaphor; infectious disease
Suggests death and the ill news that it’s spreading and is effecting everyone. Links to the microcosm. “Strange” suggests villagers confusion about the war.
“ incomer…only been in (village) for about thirty years or so.” Analysis and technique?
Thin woman suggests- invasion and is suggested to be an outsider or an alien as she wasn’t born or grew up in the village. It’s ironic as word choice of “only” suggests the tight knit nature of the community
“Ambitious” analysis and technique
Tech- juxtaposition and word choice. Word choice is hopeful and thinking you’ll be able to do something. Suggests the thin woman was not liked as much as she is trying to better herself so the villagers and the fat woman has a negative attitude towards her. Suggests the mix of jealousy and contempt of rural life
“He’s went passed Bessie’s”
Technique- word choice
Analysis- the rural life of knowing the whole community. Suggests isolation and loneliness.
“Strange and unnatural” tea it
Technique- symbolism
Analysis - the yellow or any colour or life is not welcome and does stand out. (Further understanding) The close rural community of being narrow minded and judgemental is shown.
“Most of them were: they were large, fat and lazy” tea it
Technique- characterisation of thin woman.
Analysis- thin woman seeing herself different from the rest of the village since the villagers rejected her. (Further) the negativity suggests the big useless animals and the disdain she has for them.
Tea it “was vague and diffused except when she was thinking about herself”
Technique- characterisation of fat woman, word choice.
Analysis- Denotation- vague- brief, unclear. “Diffused” - spread and put about .
Connotation - suggests uncaring and unfocused about anyone else, shows a deeper self-centred attitude.
Quotations to go with the theme of the destructiveness of war
“A strange plague “
“O god save my son”
“Strange and unnatural”
“ for a terrible moment she realised she hoped that the elder would have turned in at Bessie’s house”
Quotes to go with interesting character (thin woman)? 8-).
Bird, son, outsider, strong
“More like a buzzard”
“Pecking away at something she had pecked at for many years”
“She was ambitious”
“Ten shillings a week”
“Incomer”
“Only been at the village for thirty years or so”
“She hadn’t cried for years”
“Wasn’t going to Cry or surrender or give herself away to anyone”
“ aquiline…More like a buzzard” technique and analysis
T- Simile and word choice.
Denotation tells us the thin woman looks skinny.
Connotation implies the spiteful nipping the woman does as they often peck at people and the opportunistic characterisation.
“She wasn’t going cry or surrender or give herself away” technique or analysis?
Technique- word choice, repetition or ‘or’, characterisation
Analysis - Denotation- the thin woman doesn’t make her self vulnerable.
Connotation- suggest the bold and self independent thin woman is stronger than the fat woman and had more self discipline and resilience. Repetition of ‘or’ emphasises what she is not going to do.
Period of time Quotes ? 8?!
“Reverberations from a war fought far away”
“Strange plague”
“Strange missile”
“Yellow telegram”
“It was a weapon”
“Left desolation just like any other weapon”
“She saw the years of discipline, she remembered how thin and under and pale and thin the woman had always looked” techniques?
Parallel structure of ‘she’.
Polysyndeton, characterisation
“She saw the years of discipline, she remembered how thin and under and pale the thin woman had always looked” analysis?
The sacrifice the thin woman has done for her son
The fat woman sees thin woman differently as she understands her sacrifices and torment she done.
