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Post eating worms and shouting words you don't understand. wor Repetition of 'home' reflects the childish habit of crying but also emphasise their want/desire to gohome but is out of their control Personification shedding its skin like a snake, my voice Themes • Identity & belonging Childhood, growingup Isolation or alienation - Change List Elongated, drawn out phrasing/long esentences show slow ord choice dialect, way of living Spligter acceptance Symbolism-crying to adapting a skelf of shame. I remember my tongue Scot lang. She feels attached to her Scottish roots don't belong -wants to go backlinks to the ·She still Big boys shows hasn't she find them youth ng her adjusted & threatening- showi where they said we not start •confronted by language that's Mien to her. `Sheik-small bit- Shes starting to adjust betrayed her culture in the classroom sounding just like the rest. 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Others are sudden. Themes: - Identity & belonging Childhood, growing up - Isolation or alienation - Change Word choice-Loss /Imagery/symbolism All childhood is an emigration. Some are slow, Sibilance leaving you standing, resigned, up an avenue similaire- she is finally adopting to new home-how easy it was to lose her accent. Simile parent's worry about them. settling in. not is some you story. Personification reflects her own desire to run home symbolises her uncertainty. as they head to the unknown asap, highlights the long distance travelled. word choice emphasises herinnocence-linea child seeks comfort emp leading to unimagined pebble-dashed estates, big red has connotations. of anger- how she felt about being forced to leave redroom = car -moving from safety & comfort of home Your accent wrong. 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