sandpiper Flashcards
Setting_ Narrator
London
urban
Food Beef, Fish and Chips
Grocery store
Main character -narrator
European
What stands out about this character
Doesn’t fit in.
(Eg. If I tried to do the shopping the prices trebled)
(My foreignness which had been so charming, began to irritate him.)
Doesn’t try to fit in.
What are the themes in this extract
Loneliness
Clash of Cultures
Motherhood
Nature/the natural world
Loneliness
(Quotation)
“My only playmate is Lucy”
Clash of Cultures
(Quotation)
pg385 “ They call the wooden blinds ‘sheesh’ and tell me its the Persian word for glass.”
“So that which sits next to it is called by its name.”
Motherhood
(Quotation)
“My Lucy, Lucia, Limbah”
“I murmured as I kissed her and let go”
“I put my lips to her neck”
Nature/natural wolrd
(Quotation)
“The Sea unceasingly shifts and stirs and sends out fingers, paws, tongues to probe the see.
key Devices
Repetition
Metaphor
personification
vivid imagery
Symbolism
narrator is the sandpiper, always caught between
the two contrasting idea eg husband and daughter.
