Short Stories

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In My Polish Teacher's Tie, what quotes show the tie?

"much too wide and much too bright"
"It was a flag from another country, a better country than the ones either of us lived in"

In Korea, how is the theme of family shown?

The father is willing to risk his son's life for money. Instead of getting angry the son feels closer to his father, as if this revelation has shown the son a new and deeper side to his father

In Korea, how is a framed narrative used?

At the start, they are on the river and the narrator is bringing in the line as his father rows but at the end, the narrator rows while his father lets out the line. This shows that, even though they're in the same place, things have changed
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In Korea, what quotes show family?

"what was little more than a boy"
"I'd never felt so close to him before"
"as if I too had to prepare myself to murder"

In Korea, what quotes show the framed narrative?

"he rowed ... hand over hand I drew in the line"
"I rowed as he let out the line"

In A Family Supper, how is the repetition of "you must be hungry" used?

It is repeated four times, suggesting that the father wants him to eat, this suggests that he did kill them

In A Family Supper, how is the repetition of the idea of darkness used?

The narrator talks about not seeing things because it's dark which could suggest that he's in the dark about his father's plan

In A Family Supper, how is the theme of honour used?

The narrator's father is supposed to be honourable and is proud of his samurai heritage which could suggest that he is willing to kill himself and his family just like his partner

In A Family Supper, what quotes show honour?

"pure samurai blood"
"A man of principle ... I respected him very much"

In A Family Supper, what quotes show family?

"Inevitably"
"you must be hungry"
"it's dark ... it was dark ... the dark ... into the darkness"

In Invisible Mass of the Back Row, what quotes show identity?

"hidden, disposed of, dispatched to the invisibility of the back row"
"The jailers are quick to realise that this battle is lost"
"wanting to be elsewhere / in fact Jamaica"
"Does the sun shine here?"
"I said all of this slowly, so that I would say it well"

In Invisible Mass of the Back Row, how is dialect used?

Sometimes the narrator will narrate using the dialect from Jamaica and sometimes she'll use proper English showing that she doesn't know who she's supposed to be. The final line is in the Jamaican dialect suggesting that she has chosen to embrace her Jamaican heritage

In The Darkness Out There, what quotes show Sandra as an innocent child?

Repeated use of "the girl"
"It was all right out here in the sunshine"
"witches and wolves and tigers"
"she would fall in love ... and ... and ... and"

In The Darkness Out There, what quotes show Sandra as no longer innocent?

"There were not, the girl realised, wolves witches or tigers"
"you glimpsed darkness, an inescapable darkness. The darkness was out there and it was a part of you and you would never be without it, ever"
"flowers sparkle and birds sing but everything is not as it seems"

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