H is for Hawk
- Created by: crazybanana24
- Created on: 03-06-18 13:27
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- H is for Hawk
- Hawk is personified throughout
- this shows the companionship she needed after the death of her father
- 'Don't want you to go home with the wrong bird'
- ironic and also foreshadowing
- 'carefully tied string'
- juxtaposes fierce hawks
- 'and' repetition in second paragraph
- adds to chaos and pace
- 'wild eyes the colour of sun'
- metaphor shows that the hawk is a wild animal
- 'alien brain'
- she has no understanding of the hawk
- 'Oh.'
- anti-climax. Disappointment shown in one word paragraph
- 'This isn't my hawk... But this isn't my hawk'
- repetition shows stream of consciousness and panic
- 'sound like a thing in pain'
- nothing beautiful, no wonderment from Helen
- 'some madness from a distant country'
- reinforces that this is not her hawk: lacks intimacy
- list of metaphors in second paragraph describing hawk show how she elevates the hawk above humanity and is in wonderment.
- Hawk is personified throughout
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