Seven Stages of Grieving
Scene 7:
Monologue: I went to a funeral, involves grieving and sadness
Sound: the heavy wailing,
….: curiosity
Symbolism: 5 cats: loneliness
Object: newspaper: pages of death notices, trying to find connection to her family
Dialogue or direct address: I never knew my family
Pathos: deep empathy
Scene 9:
Symbolism: the letters=Western culture being forced upon the indigenous people.
Taking dress off= trying to escape the western
Z= it marked her as a scar showing that the western people have stripped her from her culture and identity
Juxtaposition=care free: showing she is lost, helpless and confused. She cant escape them.
Assertive=I'll always be strong= she is determined that she will never be influenced by the westernised people.
Repetition= black skin girl, I'll always be strong= emphasis that her culture will never leave her she will never change her culture
Scene 10:
Motif=first sentence: time passing by
They= the white people
Juxtaposition= "they demanded respect": superiority
Metaphor= seat= represents the elders, ancestors
Things that made no sense=
Gave them my ear= listening to them: idiom
Imagery= stanza 3 line 3,4,5
And washed his face in my blood= they are happy they capture the aboriginal people, they were laughing at them. feet= representing the land being stolen
Paradox=stole my children away to a safe place
Wrench= emotive language
Forced to feed another tongue= metaphor
Silenced by a single wave of a stick= representing pain, suffering, dying
Told not to speak….= repetition, negation= not, not, not
To wonder is to think, to wander is to walk= pun
Restriction to walk and think =lost of identity and culture
You came from the land u go back to the land after you
Monologue: I went to a funeral, involves grieving and sadness
Sound: the heavy wailing,
….: curiosity
Symbolism: 5 cats: loneliness
Object: newspaper: pages of death notices, trying to find connection to her family
Dialogue or direct address: I never knew my family
Pathos: deep empathy
Scene 9:
Symbolism: the letters=Western culture being forced upon the indigenous people.
Taking dress off= trying to escape the western
Z= it marked her as a scar showing that the western people have stripped her from her culture and identity
Juxtaposition=care free: showing she is lost, helpless and confused. She cant escape them.
Assertive=I'll always be strong= she is determined that she will never be influenced by the westernised people.
Repetition= black skin girl, I'll always be strong= emphasis that her culture will never leave her she will never change her culture
Scene 10:
Motif=first sentence: time passing by
They= the white people
Juxtaposition= "they demanded respect": superiority
Metaphor= seat= represents the elders, ancestors
Things that made no sense=
Gave them my ear= listening to them: idiom
Imagery= stanza 3 line 3,4,5
And washed his face in my blood= they are happy they capture the aboriginal people, they were laughing at them. feet= representing the land being stolen
Paradox=stole my children away to a safe place
Wrench= emotive language
Forced to feed another tongue= metaphor
Silenced by a single wave of a stick= representing pain, suffering, dying
Told not to speak….= repetition, negation= not, not, not
To wonder is to think, to wander is to walk= pun
Restriction to walk and think =lost of identity and culture
You came from the land u go back to the land after you