Eat Me- Agbi Flashcards
1
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Agabi’s MAP
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- Power imbalance: shift indicated through change in pronouns
2
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Themes
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- Gender
- Power and Conflict
- Transgressions and Taboos
- Societal Expectations
3
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Form and Structure- Dramatic monologue
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- sympathy for persona
- personal, destructive nature of patriarchy and consumerism
4
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F/S- 10 tercets with ABA rhyme
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-‘B’: sense of claustrophobia
- half-rhyme: uncertain identity
5
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F/S- lack of regular rhyme
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chaos of relationship
5
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F/S- enjambment, caesura, end-stops
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- claustrophobic/ suffocating atmosphere
- sentences, like her, become trapped
6
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‘cake.. fast food.. olive oil’
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- development of food: care replaced with force and abuse
- assonance forces reader to also open move
7
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‘beached whale on a king-sized bed/ craving a wave. I was a tidal wave of flesh’
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- state of entrapment
- internal rhyme: claustrophobia
- water energy: irony, weightless in h2o, water allows her to regain power
- volta: realises power
7
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‘did/ what I was told’
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- lack of power, obedience, submission
- patronised, infantilised
8
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‘too fat to leave, too fat to.. too fat to.. too fat to be called chubby, cuddly, big-built’
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- repetition: fast pace
- trapped in stereotype
- euphemisms: societal expectations
9
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‘There was nothing else in the house to eat’
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- ultimate moment of freedom
- still trapped, no longer knows how to fend for herself
