my grandmothers houses

• cemetery

  old age is approaching she believes she will live and die in this flat
• whats the point in buying her anything

  mothers voice - highlights the fact that her grandmother dosent use evrything you get her
• tablecloths, napkins, perfume, bath salts

  list - emphasises that there is a wide variety of things she dosent care about but the writer associates her grandmother with those things
• the letter

  the shows the importance of the letter and how significant it is
• here is home

  alliteration - her family feels strongly about living there
• the sideboard solid as a coffin

  similie - grandmother expects to die in this flat
• high rise

  new thing, unfamiliar, alien
• from her window you see noisy kids playing hopscotch or home

  got more life and joy ,nosier, infusion of youth
• finally

  word choice - suggests that it has taken a while to like it
• but she still

  word choice of but - suggests grandmother is still set in her ways
• dragging, strange, trapped

  word choice - shows how the child dosent want to go to church
• flapping over me like missionaires

  similie - feels like people are forcing her into their religion. trapped and uncomfortable
• a couple of prayers, a hymn or two

  suggests she is carrying out a routine rather than doing so for her own religious views
• god grabs me in glasgow with gran

  suggests going to church isnt very common for her
• by the time i am seven we are almost the same height

  suggests the speakers perception of her grandmother changes with time
• rooms lead off like an octupus' arms

  similie - describes the house as big and long with lots of room
• the hall is huge

  suggests awe - not used to a house that big as she has never seen one that big before
• beautiful child, skin the colour cafe' au lait

  talking down to her, highlights the class difference

  patronising tone
• you just get back to your work

  patronising tone - she thinks she is better than them
• i see her like the hunchback of notre dame

  similie - shows isolation and hard work
• you see ambulances, screaming her way to the Royal Infirmary

  personification - suggests the grandmother no longer lives in a peaceful place