Step 1: Identify Blossom Beeby’s views about her relationship with her adopted family.
Step 2: Describe Beeby’s attitude and tone. Who or what is
she criticising and why? Referring to at least three quotes, explain their
purpose and their link to her ideas.
Step 3: Learn four new expressions (words and phrases). Write these phrases in your own sentence.
- Received scant care instructions: barely sufficient
- Allow to integrate; adding and combining things together
- My parents heeded the tag; to pay close and careful attention
- I internalised my Asian face; to incorporate; to suppress an emotion or to establish information values or attitudes;
- There were tranquil countryside landscapes; peaceful, quiet
- I was repulsed by the brown wrinkleness – horrified by
- A shrivelled up old Asian woman – wrinkled
- Pushed to a crevice in the back of my mind: narrow fissure or crack
- She was beautiful; she gave me a glimmer of hope
- Every ethnicity in between: of or related to a human group, having racial or religious characters in common.
Step 4: What narrative devices are evident? eg. The mirror as a symbol of reflection and insight which shows her confusion with regards to her identity; “Made in Korea” label: image, metaphor; analogy that compares a child with a toy or with a garment; real life examples about the fashion magazines.
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