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Flashcards in Whilst Leila Sleeps - Key Quotes Deck (13)
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1
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“I am moving in the dead of night”

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Speakers Experience - moving/dead suggest attempt at hiding, doing something to be undetected.

2
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“My fingers tie knots like fish nets”

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Similie - suggest belongings are varied - gathering them up - foreshadowing being caught worried revealing anxiety.

3
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“I want to be in my mother’s house”

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scared adult sounds child like, state of stress has reduced her to a child seeking security from childhood.

4
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“Boxes;/ I can’t see out of the back window”

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Metaphor - no turning back can’t see what’s coming.

5
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“Leila is a bundle in her car seat”

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child is young/baby - wrapped up in that moment could be seen as another item in the car to her pursuers.

6
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“My headlights are paranoid eyes”

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Metaphor (personification) - eyes- speaker looking around, scared of being caught.

7
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“Now there is nothing left/ but to go with the men in plain suits”

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nobody to stop them they can do what they want. NOTHING LEFT saw those documents as her identity and they were important, now she has no identity.

8
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“My voice is a house with the roof/ blown off”

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Metaphor - Trying to put a brave face on and trying to keep her daughter calm - not working - possibly reminds her of past experiences.

9
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“What do i tell my daughter”

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There is no doubt in her mind she knows the outcome. She has no words.

10
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“There is a need to worry”

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reinforces how she is aware of the danger she is in.

11
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“a slow light rails the fast car”

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There is always visibility and it is inevitable that she will get caught up with it.

12
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“I whisper/ her cradle song and she holds on”

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half rhyme - hopes to comfort her daughter and hopes that whatever ordeal that they are going through they’ll get through it.

13
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Main Themes?

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  • Mother/ Child Relationship
  • Displacement
  • Identity / Loss if identity