Title metaphor: Swallow the air in terms of swallowing life; expressed through the loss of ability to breathe in the emotion of death and the allegorical freeing of life by exposing and cutting the stingray. mother’s We are going to investigate why May needed to depart her old life and discover her personal and cultural identity. These questions will help us answer, why did she need to depart her old life? Audience discover- we discover racism from her perspective (she represents indigenous people) – Rape scene illness - the string ray or turtle ‘found’ mother’s mental Abusive relationship Her Aunty – Loss of parental figure/ loss of identity Expressions relating to the natural environment and how it is shared with the reader are sensory and effective; provides the pleasures and freshness of childhood discoveries yet turns them into sophisticated allegories to express the painful understandings of suicide and ideas about freedom from pain. Personal: explicit use of verb to describe realisation of health issues; found the ‘found’ mother’s mental stingray correlatives –
Title metaphor: Swallow the air in terms of swallowing life; expressed through the loss of ability to breathe in the emotion of mother’s death and the allegorical freeing of life by exposing and cutting the stingray. We are going to investigate why May needed to depart her old life and discover her personal and cultural identity. These questions will help us answer, why did she need to depart her old life? Audience discover- we discover racism from her perspective (she represents indigenous people) – Rape scene ‘found’ mother’s mental illness - the string ray or turtle Abusive relationship – Her Aunty Loss of parental figure/ loss of identity Expressions relating to the natural environment and how it is shared with the reader are sensory and effective; provides the pleasures and freshness of childhood discoveries yet turns them into sophisticated allegories to express the painful understandings of suicide and ideas about freedom from pain. Personal: explicit use of verb ‘found’ to describe realisation of mother’s mental health issues; found the stingray – correlatives
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