At the border, 1979 by Choman Hardi Analysis
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- At the border, 1979 by Choman Hardi
- Structure
- Narrative structure
- Tells the story of what happened on the crossing day
- Features...
- Personal pronouns
- My mother informed me: We are going home
- Detailed description
- The land under our feet continued divide by a thick iron chain
- Direct speech
- 'Look over here', she said to us
- makes memory more vivid and realistic
- We are going home
- (emphasized)
- Mother's relationship with home is very important
- Follows a linear beginning, middle and end pattern
- Informal, almost conversational feel
- As if she's talking to us
- Telling us about this significant day
- Personal pronouns
- Split into two parts
- Part 1 (lines 1-19)
- Language
- simpler
- More informal
- Child-like
- The guards told her off
- Tone
- Optimism
- Excitement
- Language
- Part 2 (lines 20-27)
- Tone
- Feeling of excitement wanes
- A sense of disappointment is suggested
- Language
- Child-like language is replaced with more mature, serious and poetic words
- The same chain of mountains encompasses all of us
- Child-like language is replaced with more mature, serious and poetic words
- Change in mood/ language
- Part 1 (lines 1-19)
- Language
- simpler
- More informal
- Child-like
- The guards told her off
- Tone
- Optimism
- Excitement
- Language
- Reflects the change in individual
- From optimistic childhood innocence
- To a more skeptical experienced adult
- From optimistic childhood innocence
- The autumn soil continued on the other side with the same colour, the same texture
- Part 1 (lines 1-19)
- Tone
- DIVISION
- Part 1 (lines 1-19)
- Narrative structure
- Language
- Key words emphasized by repetition
- Border
- DIVISION
- Chain
- REPRESSION
- Marking out of territory is decided by people
- The land is all the same
- The same chain of mountains encompasses all of us
- Repression is everywhere
- The land is all the same
- Repression is everywhere
- Marking out of territory is decided by people
- Poet is against chains
- REPRESSION
- Sides
- Different/ Divided
- Used to convey sense of separation
- Used to convey sense of separation
- Country/ home/ homeland
- Emphasize feeling of returning home
- My/our/us/we/ same
- Reinforce feeling of common identity within the group
- Border
- Key words emphasized by repetition
- Autobiographical
- Structure
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