my grandmothers houses

• themes

  family relationships

  old age
• The three houses


  -first house is a tenement and is the childs favourite

  -second house is a modern high rise

  -third is a cleaning house where she works
• sideboard solid as a coffin


  -coffin represents the idea of death for the grandma
• my mother moans


  emphasises how disgruntled the mother is
• God grabs me in Glasgow with gran


  -links god gran and glasgow

  -shows the impact this had on her proving they have a close bond

  -nostalgia
• her bedroom is my favourite 


  -connotations of special and important

  -gran is important to the writer and vice versa