TELLING TALES QUOTES

Chemistry fam relationships

'as if Grandfather was pulling us towards him on some invisible cord...to prove we were not beyond his reach'

'you're ruining our meal- do you want to take yours out to your shed'

'she made a hole in the bottom of the boat, not big enough to notice, so it would sink'

Chem identity/ belonging/power

'she looked trapped and helpless'

'a single electric light bulb hung from a beam in the roof'

Chem appearance vs reality

'then we'd take something that wasn't gold at all and cover it with this changed gold so it looked as if it was all gold- but it wasn't'

Chem overall changes

'Chemistry is the science of change...anything can change'

'even gold can change'

'people change too, don't they?'

My PTT identity/belonging/power

'Colleagues don't wear blue overalls and work for £3.89 an hour.'

'This person earned more money than him.'

My PTT appearance vs reality

'Taken it for granted I was a teacher [...] this person earned more money than him.'

'He stitched a nice smile on his face'

'a smile lit in his eyes and ran to his mouth'

My PTT overall change

'I wasn't going to waste time on the head. I wanted to talk about poetry.'

'Carla, you are Carla Carter.'

Korea fam relationships

'the river was dead silent'

'There was something calculating in his face; it made me watchful of him'

'i knew this silence was fixed forever '

Korea identity/belonging/power

'it'll be my own funeral' (barely any)

Korea appearance vs reality

'I was wary of the big words. They were not in his own voice'

Korea overall change

'it was my last summer with him on the river [...] to give of himself before it ended'

'we were the last to fish this freshwater for a living'

'worms crawling in too little clay'

'i knew my youth had ended'

A Fam Supper fam relationships

"You don't see how it is for some parents. Not only must they lose their children, they must lose them to things they don't understand."

'Our conversation since my arrival at the airport had been punctuated with long pauses'

A fam supper identity/power/belonging

'proud of the pure samurai blood'

'a man of principle and honour'

'hardly a skill I'm proud of... Kikuko, come and help'

'you'd be very welcome. That is, if you don't mind living with an old man'

A fam supper appearance vs reality

'a girls voice

'she did nothing but giggle nervously'

VS

'ive been dying for a smoke.'

- Infantilisation of the daughter- she performs the role of a child, inhibited by the presence of the father.

A fam supper overall change

'Business these days has become so different. Dealing with foreigners.'

'he took his whole family with him [...] father was just telling me how Wanatabe was a man of principle.'

IMOBR identity/belonging/power

'trapped words'

Hortense is 'hidden, disposed of, dispatched to the invisibility of the back row'

'impressed' repeated 3x contrasted with 'my impressive reading enrolled me in one five, the hottest, baddest stream in the first year'

'voices are raised, claiming, proclaiming, learning the new language in dis here England'

IMOBR overall change

'cultivate the culture of the back row'

'graduate' 'dominate'

'voices are raised, claiming, proclaiming, learning the new language in dis here England'

TDOT identity/belonging/power

'some people you only have to look at to know they're not up to much'

'you could get people all wrong, she realised with alarm'

'glimpsed darkness, an inescapable darkness...you would never be without it, ever'

'a world grown unreliable'

TDOT appearance vs reality

'you could get people all wrong, she realised with alarm'

'his black slicked-down hair and slitty eyes...his chin was explosive with acne'

VS

He had grown...his anger eclipsed his acne

TDOT overall change

'you could get people all wrong, she realised with alarm'

'his black slicked-down hair and slitty eyes...his chin was explosive with acne'

VS

'He had grown...his anger eclipsed his acne'

'a world grown unreliable'