Originally

• Metaphor - childhood compared to major uprooting - change and transitions outside their control - moving from comfortable to uncertain


  "All childhood is an emigration"
• Simile - finally adapting to new home, shows how easy it is to lose her accent 


  "I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake"
• Short sentence - reveals she has mixed feelings about her true origins

  Word choice - struggles to define her identity 


  "Originally? And I hesitate"