Tissue

Cards (7)

  • Who wrote Tissue?
    Imtiaz Dharker
  • Key themes of Tissue
    Identity, truth, isolation, community
  • 'turned into your skin'
    direct address, metaphor reinforces how important certain texts are to our identity and who we are even though they are disposable.
  • 'sun shines through their borderlines'
    Metaphor, the sun is a powerful, permanent force, whereas borders are just temporary marks on paper
  • 'living tissue, raise a structure/never meant to last'
    Explains how segregation was a social structure never meant to last and all discrimination will eventually fail as it is meaningless.
  • 'architect' 

    they design building possibly referring to how it doesn't matter how life or everything around you is build it matters how the architect (you) want it to be build.
  • 'paper thinned by age or touching'
    Metaphor - shows how important and used these texts are and thus their importance.