english mint mate

Question 1

effective setting

Answer 1

Panam Skyskraper, Empire state building. Hotel room 12th floor

Assisi,grazie- assisi

basking shark, stub an oar, basking shark

hospital smell, nurses walk lightly. visitng hour

brooklyn cop, plunge through into violence brooklyn cop

Question 2

unusual

Answer 2

“here and up and down and there” Visiting hour

“tiny twisted legs, back was higher than his head, hands on backwards.”

“built like a gorilla.” brooklyn cop (meant to protect not scare)

“i could not understand her.” (language barrier in a family) aunt julia

“skirting like a damged insect” “jumbo sized dentist drill” Threatining, hotel room 12th floor

Question 3

theme of isolation

Answer 3

“I could not answer her” Language barrier, unable to communicate. Aunt julia.

” I watched from here” “I lie in bed” Poet describes someone alone, unaccompanied. hotel room 12th floor

“He walked the sidewalk”
The cop is alone, unaccompanied walking”

“I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to.” Repeition, shows the poets desperately trying not to break down emotiannly because they are isolated.

“ruined temple” No one cares, begger is isolated and broken. “ Slumped like a half filled sack.” No posture, feeling sorry for himself.

Question 4

memorable experiences.

Answer 4

“blood glazed on sidewalks” graphic and sticks to readers mind.

“roomsized monstor” basking shark, shows the sheer size of it.

“twenty seconds” Very specific and particular in relasation and thinking. Basking shark.

“I could not answer her, I could not understand her.” Memorable as the lagage barrier affects the spaker badly.

“getting angry,getting angry.” The loss of his aunt has affected the speaker badly and is frustrated with the loss.

Question 5

human experience

Answer 5

“I will not feel, I will not / feel, until / I have to.”– Repetition and structure show how humans try to block emotion

"”It was they who had passed / the ruined temple outside”
– Critiques how humans can ignore suffering

"”I could not answer her — / I could not understand her.”
Language can seperate close family

"”no stockades can keep the midnight out” No matter how advanced humans are we are still vunerable

"”So who’s the monster?”
Comapres humans or nature on which are more dangerous.

“he might never get back to” Humans want to be in their warm loved home, scared to lose that.