The emigree

• ’my memory of it is sunlight clear“
• what is the impact of the narrator leaving their country as a child?


  they‘re not completely reliable, they have a positive view on their country
• how many times is ‘sunlight’ repeated and what is the impact of this?


  four times, represents the narrators love and positive view on their city
• ‘I comb its hair and love it’s shining eyes‘
• what’s the impact of the quote ‘I comb its hair and love it’s shining eyes‘?


  she loves her city and it will always be her baby, never growing old
• what is the impact of the quote ‘they accuse me of absence‘?


  she isn’t participating in society and is stuck in the past
• what is the impact of the narrator referring to the rest of society as ‘they’?


  she feels she does not belong, they are foreign to her. she believes that the only place she belongs is in her country
• what Carol Rumens a migrant herself?


  no
• ‘my city hides behind me‘
• ‘they mutter death‘
• ‘the bright filled paperweight‘
• what does the quote ‘bright filled paperweight‘ connote?


  she is full of positive memories, unmovable in her belief about home