English – Non Fiction and Media Texts

                     

                                                 Knowing Pains

In Knowing Pains, Lipmann shows she adores her children. She starts by using the verb “love”. This suggests she is very fond and caring towards them. She describes how she gazes at them with awe, implying she is obsessed with them and worships them like idols. The word awe suggests she looks up to them, which is ironic as children usually look up to their parents. Next she says “rapturously grateful, which emphasises how deliriously happy her children make her feel. The metaphor ‘over the moon’ conveys her strong feelings about them.

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        She then goes on to say ‘my gratitude is touching.’ This emphasises her euphoric reactions to the things her children do that she loves. Following on from this phrase, she lists all of the things they do that she loves, for example “I watch them jealously through the windows”. This shows how she wishes she was in her childhood again; another example of this is “The sound of an electric guitar from an upstairs room is music to my ears”.  Here she is ironic because most mothers would tell their child to turn it down.

        Next she says “The ...

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