MAD and BYWM Flashcards
1
Q
How can we tell the writer needs his mothers help
A
“Mother…required a second pair of hands”
2
Q
Give another quote that shows the mother helping the writer
A
“Anchor. Kite”
3
Q
What shows the writer moving away from is mother
A
“Climb the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something has to give”
4
Q
What shows a complex structure of time
A
“I’m ten years away from the corner you laugh on”
“I’m not here yet”
5
Q
“Im not here yet”
A
Again complex structure of time
7
Q
What is tbe second verse about
A
The writer talks about her mothers life
8
Q
“The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?”
A
Rhetorical question asking if her mother had a better life without her born yet
