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Jenkins - Coggle Diagram
Effects
Jenkins
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Tone
Sad and accepting
- Speaker owns up to the fact they wasn't there for their parents when they needed them
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Themes
Illness
How illness can control ones life
- Mother used to do the 'chopping and slicing' but now she has to have someone to 'cook for her'
Family
Deterioration and growing old, regret
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Structure and Technique
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At the end there is a regular rhyme scheme indicating the acceptance of the speaker regaining control of his life
Alliteration - 'R' - 'Knuckles reddened, rough' - symbol of tough mother yet lacks credit of all her positives
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Important Quotes
'I'd Disdain' - Shows that the speaker didn't want to be part of his parents rituals - He hated the way they lived - shows the division in their relationship
'of course I left' - Feeling of guilt at how is abandonment was just something his mother had got used to
'little bag of her effects' - Items were once used for him to feel like he knew his mother, now that they are not on her he realises the distance. This is the effect of death.
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