ORIGINALLY

• • "all childhood is an emigration"
  • metaphor- change and transitioning from the comfortable into the uncertain
• • "Your accent wrong."
  • short sentence creates a statement that she does not belong here, making her feel isolated from society
• • "I want our own country"
  • she doesn't fit in and hasn't adjusted into her new foreign home, linking back to the beginning
• • "skelf of shame"
  • she is ashamed about her origins, she believes she will never truly fit in
• • "I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake"
  • simile- she finally adapts to her new home, leaving behind her old identity as she develops a new one to fit in
• • "Originally? And I hesitate."
  • she cant define her identity and is hesitant to reveal her true origins as she didn't adapt as well as her brothers