Final Individual Oral

Literary Text: "Originally" by Carol Ann Duffy

Non-Literary Text: "Immigration Birds" by Banksy

Global Issue: The impact of bicultural upbringing on a person's identity

It can cause an identity crisis among individuals, where they do not know if they should keep their old culture or adapt their new one. Coupled with racial backlash, something felt by many while trying to blend in a crowd where someone different is easily singled out, it causes an emotional dilemma, leading to a sense of shame, which leaves an individual emotionally torn.

• Impact of bicultural upbringing on a person’s identity, identity crisis, unknown - keep old or adapt new; racial backlash - emotional dilemma = emotionally torn

• Sibilance - transformation, “musical” quality, snake-like with ‘s’ sound, “Shedding its skin like a snake” change with distress. “Swallowed a skelf of shame” brothers’ change, who are relaxed.

• Rhetorical device “Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place?”- reader thinks - gain and loss, direct question to think over her situation of gain and loss of culture.

• Symbolism - speaker’s uncertainty, “blind toy”, uncertain future, anxiety, symbolism helps readers relate better to the story and speaker even they have not directly experienced situation - relating to deeper symbolic meaning of the details.

• Woman Seated in the Underground: “Now they are singing. Underneath the lantern by the barrack gate. But waiting for whom? Did I? I have no wedding ring, no handbag, nothing.” - Symbolises identity crisis caused by change in time and place.

• Foreign: “And in the delicatessen, from time to time, the coins in your palm will not translate. Inarticulate, because this is not home, you point at fruit.” Racial backlash- toll on their mental health- emotionally drained and torn.

• Juxtaposition- futility, sense of ridicule in discrimination, birds mimicking human xenophobia, juxtaposed against complex human discrimination, harmful to those who wish to settle somewhere new, may start questioning identity and sense of belonging.

• Symbolism: Viewers reflect on themselves and actions - Sense of comedy, helps viewers relate better to the art, even not directly experienced the situation.

• Satire - critique of some form of human behaviour- persuading audience to condemn it, encourage social change using irony humorously, point out problems with the behaviour being critiqued, ability to offend and make audience laugh at same time.

• Migrant Child in Venice (migrants’ voice, identity lost when left their homes), Girl Painting Over Swastik (refugees trying to find home, build identity when they lost theirs).