H is for hawk

GAP

G- Autobiographical account

A-intresed audience-grief

P- inform, delbing into death and grief -entertain, 2. Educate

Tones

Tone 1: matter of fact(establishes a sense of normality even though it is not)

Tone 2: electricity/religious. Deeply affected.

Tone 3: grief, powerless

Tone 1

Quote 1

'We'll check the ring numbers(...) wrong bird'

In media res- opening dialogue-strange situation, coupled with lack of key context, builds tension and curiosity.

Quote 2

'Ring number',' yellow paper','boxes'

Boring makes it seem normal

Quote 3

' he reached inside and amidst a whirring, chaotic clatter of wings and feet and talons and a high pitched twittering(...) and fury'

The polysyndetic listing-positions her as out-of-control almost child like. Perhaps a reversion of her innocence of youth before her dad died.

Quote 4

'Illuminated bestiary','A broken marionette'

Layered images as she is overwhelmed by fairytale beauty as is a fiction, a creature from myth.

Tone 2

Quote 1

'Frail bluish eggshell','humid Perspex box'

Mirrored syntactic parallelism highlights cruelty of capture + captivity of such a marvellous wild creature.

Quote 2

' whole world had fallen'

Hyperbole metaphor evoking natural beauty + her admiration for its predatory abilities.

Quote 3

Tone 3

Quote 1

'Melodrama','madwoman','attack','unbearable','madness','crazy'

Semantic field of madness- emotional fatigue

Quote 2

'This isn't my hawk',' but this isn't my hawk'

Repetition- desperation - establishes a sense that she lacks control/agency- builds a deeper connection between her and both birds: 1. Young and dependent, 2. Older and never loved.

Quote 3

'White-faced','wind-wrecked'

Compound adj. self deprecating description-reflective that perhaps she knows he demeanour, request, and the plan itself was done so out of impulse and grief.