Ali smith and warsan shire Flashcards
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who wrote the go-between?
Ali Smith
What is the go-between about?
One immigrants experience emigrating to Europe. The story alternates between past and present. It says that the past is a foreign country, the present is the new country. Nobody leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
What can we learn from their injuries in go-between?
The injuries tell stories about what they have gone trugh.How far they have gone-movement
How do the story go-between handle memory and tense and time?
The go-beteween alternates between past and present time. Past is a foreign country the story says, the present is the new country. There are bits and pieces of the person in europe, bits they have lost as they fled.
How do the detainee’s tale handle memory and tense and time?
The memory is preserverred in their bodies.
But it is as if everything is still happening.
who wrote the poem “Home?”
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Warsan Shire
What is the poem Home about?
