ENGLISH UNIT 3 AOS 1 QUOTES

L “It’s abut him knowing who you are, and you knowing who he is…you need to show him what you have become. you need to finish that story.”

“got your favourites.”

paternal love

I / B: “Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate.”

Metaphor / symbolism

the types of chocolate symbolize distinct qualities, such as skin colour, heritage, or personality.

Skin colour: father (white) and mother (black) son (blending of the two)

Heritage: white: sweetness, purity or refined personality, dark: richness, depth, complexity. Milk: both. this idea of hybridity or mixed identity.

Humour: playfulness, chocolate is a universal comfort.

I / B

“If God is with me, who can be against me?”

Antithesis / juxtaposition

strength and protection the speaker feels with God on their side, suggesting that any opposition is insignificant or powerless in comparison. This technique highlights the idea of divine support and the ultimate triumph of good over evil or adversity.

So, antithesis works alongside the rhetorical question to convey a strong message of confidence and faith.

I / B “I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”

paradox / juxtaposition

contradictory. it conveys the complex truth of feeling socially surrounded but still isolated or lonely. It connects to a world where physical proximity doesn’t always connect to emotional closeness.

I / B “I risked no longer being welcomed as nobody”

Nobody – inivisbility / insignificance, he had the choice but would be prefered to be welcomed then just irrelevant

I / B: I was a product of her search for belonging”

Human desire for connection and to have something that was yours. The outcome of patricia’s identity.

i / b white church”

“black church”

juxtaposition, the challenging of a system where you are categorized where you can go but trevor’s mum taught him “to think”

i / b

“we’re the same”

“we’re different”

Paradox / oxymoron

re direct opposites, so placing them together creates a contradiction. acknowledges both commonalities

o: if you don’t hit your woman you don’t love her”

paraod, hitting someone does not justify loving them, it is an acceptance of abuse.

A statement reflecting toxic masculinity and the misguided belief that violence equates to love. It illustrates harmful gender norms and emotional manipulation.

o: “climbing into strange men’s cars. disgusting woman.”

cycle of racism and stereotyps to specific races. hate fulled explicit reaction, with people sparking constant tension and anger, convincing people to blame each other.

o: black tax

trying to close the gap, intergenerational trauma and passing down to kids, the cycle of limited opportunities and normalised hardship

o: “perfect racism”

archetiticature, systematic oppression and power of labels, human spirit as a force to defy

o: immorality act 1927

anecdoatal legislation to show the forced segregaton impact on families but how love was more powerful than laws.

o: different notions of right and wrong

not necessarily what you believed you were but what the law categorised you to.

o: apartheid stole from us time

Personification: Apartheid is an abstract system, not a person. By saying it "stole," we give it a human action. This makes it feel like an active, malicious force that directly harmed people. It emphasizes that apartheid wasn't just a set of rules; it was something that actively took things away.lost opportunities, time spent starving,

L: “devil in his house.”

“a saint in the streets”

toxic relationship that manipulates what love is. this juxtaposition of who he percieved himself to be and who he actually was, the hidden trusth.

L: “affairs of the heart”

babiki

zaheera

maylene

maylene, was the coming of age bt also growing up.

zaheera was the matured to prioritise own options but still not asking her out becoming the textbook example of regret.

babiki is the idea of her and beauty disguising who she was.

L: “BEING. AMAN IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE, IT’S WHO YOU ARE.”

THIS SELF LOVE, AND LEARNING TO TRUST AND LOVE YOURSELF FIRST BEFORE YOU GO ON FOR SOMETHING ELSE.

L: “ look on the bright side.”

“would love [her] unconditionally in return.”

“this is my mothers life. this is her life.”

“very tom and jerry relationship.”

“being chose is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.”

she gave him tough love and protective love but ultimately her administering discipline and theirr relationship is the only thing he needs, respects and wants.

L : “cheese boys”

“first heartbreak”

“got on like a house on fire”

friendships and becoming friends with a classed group

l: motif (vehicles) the minibus and car garage

they ultimately lead to trevors first encounter of jail but also his worst memories.

a: “futility of violence, the cycle that just repeats.”

itself, the damage that’s inflicted on people that they in turn oinflict on others.

a: “he didn’t serve a single day in prison.”

“cobra, calm, perfectly still than explosive.”

misogynistic, patriarchal and violence with detatchement of abel who was the product of societal and politcal problems.

a: ocean of black

“how to hit a white child

“change the perception of my color

tool of the oppressors in south africa to disenfranchise black people through education, the damages / deniel of it. instilled love of books and learning for trevor

a: loopholes

law isn’t rational at all, its a lottery.

“crime is in your life on e way or another.

laws are repealed, stubborn and deffient because people needed a sense of control in a system wehre they lacked it.

a: “animal instincts”

“learned in a world where violence was always lurking”

ppersonification on violence, that it was like this creepy coming thing that you always had to be cautious of and this personifcation on animal instinnct sof people adapting to the predator like quality of the perpetrators on them.

s: “aspirational quality”

“black township”

“designed to be bombed:

soweto, tough environment.

metaphor on the structural quality of it.

s: “the house is shit. my mother found that house and bough it.”

“how she stuck a black family into highlands north.”

highlands north, white suburb, this sneaky and like trying to defy the law

s: “ secret” “thriving scene” “cosmpolitian” “liberal” “underground theatres’ “restaurants and nightclubs”

hillbrow

s “half coloured, half black.” “we never fit in at all..” “edge of civilisation”

eden park

“ the hood” “crimes cares…crime doesn’t discriminate” “none of it was legal” “wildest parties and worst crimes” “everything’s in motion.”

alexandra

o: Even if he never leaves the ghetto he will know the ghetto is not the world. If that is all I accomplish I have done enough.

anthithesis / paradox - the world and the ghetto a vast and confide space

Trevor, pray” And I’d pray. I loved doing it….I felt like I was helping people.

repitiotion and … elipsis to show him trialing off into thought (reflection or nostaligia)

she wanted me to be free to go anywhere, do anything, be anyone”

tricolon: create a sene of limitless and building to a climax.

Because of my color, they thought I was a colored person, but speaking the same languages meant that I belonged to their tribe

language.

apartheid stole from us: time.

apartheid effects. (overcoming advertisy)

• Honor me with your yes so that I can live peacefully”(pg 26)​

• She’d say to me “Don’t ever forget, He chose you” (pg 108)​

• When I beat you, I’m trying to save you. When they beat you, They’re trying to kill you. (pg 243)​

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mothers love