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Topic Statement 1

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The narrator presents herself as a bright and imaginative child during the opening of the story

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The airport was my Mecca, my Jerusalem

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Metaphor describes places of worship implying the narrator is a worshipper of flight. Explains part of her love for Superman

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believable as a landscape by Dalí

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Simile describes painting by DalÍ, who is renowned for creating incredibly lifelike images. Shows power of narrator’s imagination

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In the magic whirring of his cape I could hear the wings of a hundred seagulls, the motors of a thousand planes

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Hyperbole highlights the narrators obsession with Superman. It shows she admires his flight capability far more than birds and planes

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Topic Statement 2

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A contrast is effectively used to highlight the innocent and child-like environment of the narrator against the backdrop of a more unsettling environment in the wider world

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suprise captures and sudden rescues

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Like a television show. Use of sudden and suprise implies something not thought of yet the children must have planned such events. Shows they created their own fantasy world

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made us outlaws

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Connotations of wild west and excitement. Narrator uses this instead of outcasts, showing she was still buried in a fantasy world and blind to the outside worlds perceptions

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we would practice an air raid

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Shows the narrator’s innocence beginning to be challenged by the war going on in the outside world

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war was seeping in

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Unpleasant connotations of ‘seeping’ imply war is like an infection that is slowly spreading. Mirrors the narrators gradual loss of innocence throughout the story

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Topic Statement 3

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Paula Brown’s birthday party represents a turning point in the narrator’s understanding of the world and clearly reveals the story’s key themes

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nobody on our block really liked her

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Narrator’s bias indicates tension in her relationship with Paula Brown, foreshadowing the future conflict

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Our war games and the radio programmes were all made up but this was real, this really happened

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Fantasy vs Reality. Narrator exposed to harshness of reality. She begins to realise that things in her life aren’t what they seem

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I knelt over a toilet bowl and vomitted up the cake and ice cream

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Physical rejection of sweet things/tastes results in horrible taste in mouth. Foreshadows narrators rejection of her fantasies and saddening results

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No matter how hard I thought of Superman before I went to sleep, no crusading blue figure came

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Mental impact of movie. Narrator begins to realise that she must face some struggles on her own

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Topic Statement 4

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Climactic moment of the story is played out through the game of tag where the young narrator is used as a scapegoat

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Paula stopped in the middle of the game to eye me coldly

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Like a predator eyeing its prey. Idea of conflict (Narrator being targetted)

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Then, suddenly, her eyes fixed on me

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Paula selects the narrator as a scapegoat, climax of tension seen earlier

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strange joy flickering in the back of their eyes

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Implies deep down everyone takes pleasure in bullying and demeaning others

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Topic Statement 5

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The end of the story effectively promotes its key themes

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Why didn’t you tell me that you pushed Paula in the mud and spoiled her new snowsuit?

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Mum beleives David over her own daughter. Betrayal by David. Injustice

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Okay but we’ll pay for another snowsuit anyway just to make everybody happy, and ten years from now no one will know the difference

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Materialism vs Morality. Ironic statement, Nattator writing this 13 years in the future

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silver airplanes and the blue capes all dissolved and vanished

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Symbolic of narrators innocence disappearing

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wiped away like the crude drawings of a child in coloured chalk

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Narrator realises how flimsy (childish) her view of the world was

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Key Themes

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Injustice

Betrayal

Corruption

Innocence/Fantasy vs Reality