10 Markers

Question 1

Possible for Powerful Emotions (try and give 10)

Answer 1

• “Wobbling photo of grief”
  -“It will blind you with tears like a lover.”
  -“Bawling, home, home.”
• “A hundred agonies in black and white.”
• “In his dark room he is finally alone.”
• “a half-formed ghost.”
• “What I miss most, even now, is his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch.”
• “My dream milk burned in my breasts.”
• “Once a bowl of apple stopped me dead.”
• “Near petrified.”
• “I am homesick.”
• “I say her phrases to myself in my head, or under the shallows of my breath.”
• “The laugh of a bell swung by a running child.”
• “This was better than home.”
• “Mrs Tilscher loved you.”
• “You kicked him.”
• “Appauled.”

Question 2

Possible quotes for contrast.

Answer 2

• “Possesive and faithful.”
• “Fierce kiss.”
• “Rural England.” AND “Fields which don’t explode.”
• “Ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel.” AND “Running children in a nightmare heat.”
• “Separate beds.” AND “unwrapping each other rapidly.”
• “Too blue swapped for a cool grey.”
• “Homesick, free.”
• “I am happy and sad.”
• “This was better than home.” AND “Ran through the gates, impatient to be grown.”
• “Your accent wrong” AND “My voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest.”
• “Big boys eating worms and shouting words you don’t understand.”

Question 3

Possible quotes for Loss

Answer 3

• “It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief.”
• “Blind you with tears like a lover.”
• “I want our own country, I said.”
• “The city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn’t live anymore.”
• “See your brother swallow a slug, feel only a shelf of shame.”
• “Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and right place?”
• “Your accent wrong.”
• “I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake.”
• “He remembers the cries of that man’s wife.”
• “The blood stained into foreign dust.”
• “A hundred agonies in black and white.”
• “The readers eyeballs prick with tears.”
• “So he had to move out.”
• “I miss most, even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch.”
• “My dream milk burned in my breasts.”
• “I am homesick, free, in love with the way my mother speaks.”
• “Too blue swapped for a cool grey.”
• “I am happy and sad.”
• “You kicked him but stared at your parents, appauled, when you got back home.”