Letter to Daniel

My Dear Son
- emphasises feelings
- written from the heart
- personal and special
- protective
soft quiet
- tranquil setting
- peaceful
- stillness
we had wanted you and waited for you
- Repetition of "you" reinforces personal aspect
- pride and joy
- precious and more than they hoped for
- patience
turned me upside down and inside out
- outlook on life has changed - disorientated
- whole shift in thinking - new perspective
- his values are radially different
- happiness and joy reinforces universal theme of fatherhood
"glory and prizes and praises were sweeter than life"
- sees the value of life and how big his ego was
- Daniel means more to him now
- was a risktaker and reckless - selfish
- no longer can take chances
hurt and abused and killed
- Daniel's vulnerability is impressionable
- Children are innocent
- Daniel's birth has changed his perception
'Ten year old Andi Mikail.... how his voice cried out
- anecdote - horrific death
- real sense of pain and suffering
- choice of detail is important - emotive
Motherless, fatherless
- Repetition and balance - she has nothing
- Sentence structure - inverted emphasis to show she is alone
living and dying for the battle
- omniscient narrative stance
- destructive - beyond help
- desperation and sadness
"sound of hope and new beginnings"
- sense of hope and future and reconciliation
- New reason to celebrate
- Father would be proud of grandson

Author

Anonymous

220070

Card Set

Letter to Daniel

Description

higher english

Updated

2013-05-17T18:27:13Z