English Literature
Comparison: home and exile
- 1.
Two original invented extracts. A: 'I carried the house key across the sea. Each new room became a corridor back to the door it could no longer open.' B: 'We built no door. At dusk the neighbours brought their chairs, and the empty square learned our names.' Explain what the key symbolises in A.
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Two original invented extracts. A: 'I carried the house key across the sea. Each new room became a corridor back to the door it could no longer open.' B: 'We built no door. At dusk the neighbours brought their chairs, and the empty square learned our names.' How does B's first-person plural affect its idea of home?
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Two original invented extracts. A: 'I carried the house key across the sea. Each new room became a corridor back to the door it could no longer open.' B: 'We built no door. At dusk the neighbours brought their chairs, and the empty square learned our names.' Compare the function of the door in A and B.
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Two original invented extracts. A: 'I carried the house key across the sea. Each new room became a corridor back to the door it could no longer open.' B: 'We built no door. At dusk the neighbours brought their chairs, and the empty square learned our names.' Compare how each extract figuratively transforms place.
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Two original invented extracts. A: 'I carried the house key across the sea. Each new room became a corridor back to the door it could no longer open.' B: 'We built no door. At dusk the neighbours brought their chairs, and the empty square learned our names.' Evaluate the claim that A is hopeless while B is wholly optimistic.
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Two original invented extracts. A: 'I carried the house key across the sea. Each new room became a corridor back to the door it could no longer open.' B: 'We built no door. At dusk the neighbours brought their chairs, and the empty square learned our names.' Which extract more strongly presents home as something people create rather than inherit? Construct a comparative judgement.
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