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Mod C: The Craft of Writing - Coggle Diagram
Mod C: The Craft of Writing
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice (Nam Le)
Techniques
Oscillates between the past and the present; different perspectives to write from
Finding authentic voice
Olfactory imagery
"The month old crusted mound of dishes. The smell was awful"
Metaphor
"Threw some magazines over the roughest spots"
Metaphor for hiding truth
Simile
"Like the striking of a giant type writer hammer
Destructive imagery
Theme
Regret and guilt
Fatherly relationship
Authenticity and truth
Challenging trauma, giving life to words
Spotty-Handed Villainesses (Margaret Atwood)
Technqiues
Simile, imagery
‘But female bad characters can also act as keys to doors we need to open, and as mirrors in which we can see more than just a pretty face.’
Expression through writing
Feeling trapped in her own mind
Feeling relieved in writing out her feelings as an escape
Recovery from surgery
Meaning/moral
Appreciate those you have, those who don't want to be in your life don't deserve to be
Squeezes mothers hand, acknowledging she's there and coming to terms with not needing her father in her life
I change my focus from the apathetic window to the unappreciated beam of love, lighting my life, keeping me from being scared and alone and in the dark
You don't need anyone else to be saved, you save yourself
People can surprise you
People don't change
Smell of hospital
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Fake, plastic, latex
Disgustingly squeaky clean and sanitised to overwhelm the smell of death and tears
Relationship with father
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Mother is here with me and yet I still find myself waiting for him, staring out a window he'll never walk past
"And yet I wait, foolishly hopeless
The feeling of safety and warmth from an embrace she'll never know
The ghostly scent of flowers she'll never receive
Oscillate with memories
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His absence corrupts memories with his shadow looming over
Whilst I was preoccupied searching and scanning for his figure, I missed her proud beaming smile
Bring back at the end, mum supporting after all negative let downs with father "It's ok darling, I'm here" etc
Call "dad where are you, you said you'd be here"