The Waiting Room

Question 1

theme of moment of ephiphany

Answer 1

‘Oh! of pain -Aunt Consuelo’s voice’
‘I, we-were falling’
‘ it was sliding beneath a big black wave another and another’

Question 2

fazing in and out of conscience

Answer 2

’ it was sliding beneath a big black wave another and another’

Question 3

theme of understandimg humanity and existence
-breasts-

Answer 3

’ those awful hanging breats held us all togther or made us all just one?’

Question 4

bishop becomes timit and she is is overwhjelmed with existental realisations that she is not the only ‘i’ - an autonoumous self-aware subject

Answer 4

‘I gave a sidelong glance -I couldnt look any higher- at shadow grey knees, trousers, and skirts

Question 5

sybolism + expalin

Answer 5

‘in the waiting room’ the waiting room is th thresshold of adulthood or the metaphorical vestibule of self-awarness

Question 6

double entendre + explaination

Answer 6

‘the war was on’ the war was on as the us joined the allies during WW1 1918, and the war she wages on herself, and the people around her,

Question 7

aurual imagery

Answer 7

‘oh! of pain - aunt Consuelo’s voice’

Question 8

questions + effect

Answer 8

‘why should i be my aunt or me, or anyone?’ the reption of pronouns shows a loss of individualty or a freighting fluidty of one, blurring the boundaries between the self, the family, and the whole univerise