Originially

Question 1

Originally? And I hesitate

Answer 1

Seems like an outsider as people can tell she’s not form area, find abrupt sentence reveals uncertainty scout identity and belonging

Question 2

Big boys eating slugs, shoring words you don’t understand

Answer 2

Threatening unsettling aggressive

Question 3

See your brother eating worms, feel only a skelf of shame

Answer 3

Now they fit in, shame suggests no longer threatened by behaviour, skelf shows how she still remembers her roots

Question 4

My tongue shedding its skin like a snake

Answer 4

Simile suggests idea of change again leaving behind old/starting new implies found voice, snake is a common symbol of betrayal suggests feels betrayed by body

Question 5

My brothers cried, one of them bawling

Answer 5

Word choice emphasises feeling of fear, sense of loss

Question 6

The Miles rushed…the vacant rooms where we didn’t live anymore

Answer 6

Personification adds in idea of things happening outwith control

Question 7

Your accent wrong

Answer 7

Connotations of loneliness vulnerability not belonging to

Question 8

I lost a river,culture…and the right place?

Answer 8

List emphasises what she has left behind/lost question creates uncertainty

Question 9

All childhood is an emmigration

Answer 9

Metaphor, ideas of childhood as a journey, idea of new experiences and change

Question 10

Stirred like a loose tooth

Answer 10

Simile, just as loose tooth is an annoyance so too are the parents worry for their children fitting in