pathway.
a bit of sassy snowflakes.


ღ Maltese/Aussie & a French last name.
ღ Keep it simple, or complicated. No halfway.
ღ Clay work, and sketching and painting ~
ღ Interior Designing- part of my creative flair
ღ Photography, I love the earth ♥
ღ Camping: In a tent. Screw wet weather.
ღ Cooking- I heart cinnamon & vanilla
ღ Chinese food or KFC ? Seafood-retchable
ღ Travel the world; laugh all you like.
[If you have to dream, might aswell dream big]


Some Analysis on The Tattooist, By Anne Vick
Friday, December 19

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The Tattooist, a short-story by Anne Vick

·        “He wore his history on his arms.” Metaphor shows lack of comfort around the inner city girls. This creates irony, the big tough guy feel intimidated by school girls.
·        “He’d watched…” this anaphora in the second paragraph shows his strange obsession with them, and how he’d gathered the evidence to stereotype  them at city school girls, automatically forming a barrier between himself and them.
·        “Liquid eyes set in flawless skin…” Hyperbole “kissed by the summers of southern Europe” personification. He epitomises their beauty and thus stereotype of perfect rich school girls. “Precision cut hair” sensory imagery
·        “they” distinctive pronoun separates himself from them, “ ‘We like your sketches,’ they said but he didn’t believe them.” Underscores the tattooist perspective of the girls simply being infatuated with their own looks.
·        “could hear the thirty pieces of silver clinking in their pockets.” Biblical allusion to Judas’ betrayal of Jesus shows the extent of his distrust and inability to try and make a connect with these girls/ accept them
·        “a man of hard won dignity… until he saw their design” ellipsis shows break in train of thought, his change of mind. Symbolic victims of world war 11 who were branded with an identification tag. Symbolic handshake shows mutal respect they now share.
·        “‘Lest we forget,’ he said and he let his hand relax into hers.” Gesture of acceptance “the sequence of blue numbers her was creating a blur.” Historical allusion to the holocaust survivors and brands of the concentration camps shows how connection made through similar experiences of understanding/knowledge led him to feel a sense of acceptance towards the girls. Change of perception on their identity gives them more substance in his mind, he considers them morally right.