Blessing

Blessing

Meaning or Purpose
1. To emphasise the how starved of resources these people are by showing what their reaction is to be able to access such a simple neccessity to life
Language
1. story-telling narrative
2. alliteration to draw attention
  1. 'small splash'
    1. shows how treasured the smallest amount is
3. punctuation to increase pace and a frantic tone or lack of to slow it down
  1. 'with pots,brass,copper,aluminium, plastic buckets, frantic hands'
Imagery
1. religious imagery
  1. 'voice of a kindly god'
  2. 'Blessing' - the title itself
2. 'the skin cracks like a pod'
  1. blunt, shocking the reader, cutting right to the point
Structure
1. freeverse
2. cyclical structure
3. erratic rhyme
4. varied sentence length
  1. short for the absence and long for the flow of water
Themes
1. desperation
2. poverty
3. divinity

Resource summary

	Created by Jasmin Dewar over 4 years ago