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Home – Catherine Cole Key Ideas 1. Hope - For his daughter arriving - Safety and family 2. Belonging - To a place - Synonyms: fitting in - Antonyms: disconnected, alienated 3. Cultural connection/identity 4. Solace - Emotional, spiritual, sense of self - Synonyms: comfort, restoration Experience Symbolism “They’ll fill their garden with grapes and figs and plums.” - Productive plants “Ahmed’s gate is hanging on one hinge, like a child’s milk tooth held on by a filament of skin.” - Simile - Moving from an infant to a child, non-permanence - Trauma – past is broken, lives with the emotion but with hope of something better to come. Colour palette “Drawn at first by the bright flowers, red silk carnations mostly, some silk roses.” - Hope, life and love “Sleekly silver… blending with the grey stones sprinkled between the sleepers.” - Bland city life *strong comparison between the place Ahmed likes and dislikes

Hope - “Drawn at first by the bright flowers, red silk carnations mostly, some silk roses.” New beginnings - “Ahmed’s gate is hanging on one hinge, like a child’s milk tooth held on by a filament of skin.” Solace - “They’ll fill their garden with grapes and figs and plums.”...