Jo List- Name journeys

Question 1

What is name journeys about?

Answer 1

It is about an indian person speaking about how they are finding it difficult living in the UK and she compare herself to to Rama and Cita the hindu gods

Question 2

What is significance of ‘my name a journey through rough and smooth

Answer 2

Show she feels disconnected form her home as no one can say her name. The word journey highlights the impact of migration on identity

Question 3

what is the significance of the quote ‘wilderness’

Answer 3

this shows her as an outsider that she is lonely- in a place where there is a nothing she can connect with’

Question 4

what is significance of ‘my name became a stumble’

Answer 4

This “stumble” reflects a wider issue of cultural misunderstanding and the challenges faced by individuals in new environments when their language and identity are not readily understood.

Question 5

what is signifcance of ‘void of history and memory’

Answer 5

it shows her identity and meories have been lost becase she is in a new strange place

Question 6

What theme would you use the name journeys poem?

Answer 6

identity, migration,prejudice, belonging