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Relationships/belonging to people

Acceptance and understanding

Identity

Identity Belonging to Culture/Place

(Interchangeable in Swallow The Air)

- Technique (Didactic): Aunty leapt offthe porch and shuffled us inside, just as

Mum had earlier shuffled us out

- Explanation: Representation of theserelationships

- Technique (Contrast): Everythingthrough aunties tired eyes was bad

luck and Id have to be one of the

luckiest people around

- Explanation: the change in the auntiesidentity causes a disconnection betweenthe two, and therefore she feels she

does not belonging

- Technique (Symbolism): Saucepan- Explanation: it represents their

relationship and the shared experiences

both were involved in

- Technique (Metaphor): They smell offriendship

- Explanation: - Technique (Motif): When mum passed,

she gave the pots to me

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- Explanation: showsconnectedness/relationship from their

mutual understanding

- Technique (Irony): Id hear auntie cryall the timedont know when aunty is

gunna come home

- Explanation: shows detachment- Technique (Symbolism): The cycleway

was the only thing that bound us to the

estate properties

- Explanation: shows a physicalconnection but no emotional

connection, thus showing that theirdisparities allow them to not belong

- Technique (Metaphor): Billys dad ranaway, he was the right skin for Mum

too

- Explanation: relationships are formedby the synonymous culture that two

must share. Further shows the

detachment caused by white

colonization

- Technique (Symbolism): We didnt talkabout Mum or our ads or all the booze

and shit around us. We knew the world

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in the same way that we knew each

other, in the quietness we shared

- Explanation: the quietness symbolisestheir shared understanding

- Technique (Metaphor): A piece of me- Explanation: that she initially believes

she belongs to her father because of

their familial bond