Explain how Sealy memorably describes Clements’s home and family in this extract.
Sealy describes Clements’s family as being poor and unable to afford every day goods such as food etc. ‘the dovecots were taking their one substantial meal of the day.’ This shows that unlike other families the Dovecot’s only had one proper meal all day which consisted of a plate of rice that hardly nourishes a human being and shows how little they really had. Another reason to suggest the family’s mal nutrition was the description of Mrs Dovecot ‘a long thread of a woman whose bones want had been picked like an eagle.’ This reflects the intake of food by each of the family members in that they are so thin and malnourished.