Para 4 Flashcards

(5 cards)

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The narrator (quesion) at the end of the text

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she gets home, and her uncle finds out about the snowsuit and doesn’t believe she wasn’t at fault

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“Feeling the black shadow creeping up the underside of the world like a flood tide”

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•similie-Just as a flood tide would be powerful,destructive, and fast-moving, so this suggests the narrators emotional reaction to her uncle not believing her
•illustrates her devastated she felt
her uncles inability to defend and protect her was the final incident, which forced her to face the harsh reality of life,leaving her feeling deafeated and alone

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The narrator is again portrayed (question) at the end

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harsh realities
innocence is fully gone as the war as begun

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“That was the year the war bgan,and the real world,and the difference”

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repetition ‘and’ to convey the heaviness the narrator carries with the war and the fact that no one believed her
‘real world was a mere vision separate from her superman dreams. Now, her dreams are invaded and replaced with the real world

We see the narrator in her new but old world,without Superman,flying dreams, and the sense of security. Now she is alone and changed

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“That was the year the war bgan,and the real world,and the difference”

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repetition ‘and’ to convey the heaviness the narrator carries with the war and the fact that no one believed her
‘real world was a mere vision separate from her superman dreams. Now, her dreams are invaded and replaced with the real world

We see the narrator in her new but old world,without Superman,flying dreams, and the sense of security. Now she is alone and changed

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