Leaving home is difficult because you will miss the old lifestyle of being supported by others to being supported by yourself only.

Tyrant – Someone who abuses their power

“For it seems I never saw it in no November” This suggests that the country was only in the warn times, not the cold and negative times. Which can change your thoughts about something.

“My original view, the bright, filed paperweight” Cannot move paperweight just like you cannot change/move or alter her memory.

“But I am branded by an impression of sunlight” Word ‘Branded’ suggests that her memory is permanent, which is conjoined to the quote of the paperweight.

“Frontiers rise between us, close like waves” Word ‘waves’ links to borders. This is because it suggests that waves block people from swimming out to sea as it pushes you back, just like borders do from not allowing you to enter different countries.

“Child’s vocabulary” This means that there were some words that adults around her were saying which linked to the situation happening in the country they were in. But due to her age, she didn’t understand.

“Every coloured molecule” Word. ‘molecule​’ suggests that ever small detailed piece of information starts to link up together and makes more sense as she gets older and older. The phrase ‘every coloured’ suggests that she will soon know every perspective of the civil war.

“I comb it’s hair and love it’s shining eyes” The phrase ‘I comb it’s hair’ and ‘love it’s shining eyes’ suggests that the country she is in is like a doll and it is a positive place for her.

“My city hides behind me. They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight” This quote suggests that she was the only piece of evidence to suggests that there was positivity in her country. Now that she knows more about it, her shadow​ falls.