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Checking Out Me History (Meaning (speaker expressing a desire to learn…
Checking Out Me History
Structure
Non standard english- read in a carribean accent. Represents the importance of the speaker embracing their identity
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italicised section- celebration of historical characters. Agard is playing with words in the same way you would do with musical notes. Therefore the text becomes like a musical score.
communicates admiration of the figures in an unconventional way. Another subtle attack on the education system
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Enjambment- creates the effect of continuation. Also suggests that the journeys of these heroes should not stop and it hsould be continued through the teaching of their successes.
Meaning
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themes- History, education and identity
teachings are flawed because real stories are replaced by fictional stories. You don't know who you are if you don't know your own history.
Imagery
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Touissant de thorn- a thorn is a problem Touissant de beacon- becaons of light and hope. Which is what he provided for slaves.
Nanny De Maroon- presents her as someone who hasd the foresight and hoped to dream. Reinforces exciting deeds and evokes a sense of pride. Fire has connotations of power and passion and struggle. River great flow her influence had
Mary Seacole- a star symbolising guidance and hope. 'Sunrise' beautiful offers this as comfort for the dying.
All compared to natural phenomena specifically light- which suggests that she gives people hope. and helps illuminate historical identity.
Language Devices
Lack of punctuation- suggest that hsitory should be a continuation of stories with key historic figures.
Juxtaposition- fiction vs real- reflects the inconsistencies in taught histories. Given more status that historic figures part of the speaker's history.
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Context
Agard was born in the Carribean and moved to the Uk in the late 1970s- he uses non-standard phonetic spelling to represent his own spelling.
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Toussant Louverture- was a former slave who rose to become the leader of the only successful slave revolt in modern history that created an independent state, the Haitian Revolution.
Nanny of the Maroons- the leader of a group of ex-slaves who fled slavery to create their own communities
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