English-I come from

Shepherd’s pie and sunday roast, jerk chicken and stuffed vine leaves

Shows the mixed heritage

I come from a home that some would call broken.

It shows that people didn’t accept him or his family/origins

I come from waving the white flag to loneliness

Metaphor- He’s found acceptance or peace with loneliness rather than fighting it

Rainbow flag and the Union Jack

Juxtaposition-contrasting identity

An ever-ready suitcase

An openness to new experiences or not being fully settled

Deep issues and shallow solutions

The feeling of being dismissed or misunderstood

Unanswered questions and unread books, unnoticed effort and undelivered apologies and thanks.

The list of un’s shows the incomplete or unfulfilled past

I come from…

I come from…

Anaphora, Its an assertion to his right to exist, even challenging others who try to put him down or categorise him

List(structure)

Shows that no part of him is more important they all make him perfectly/equally

Free verse(structure)

Shows freedom to express himself and what he likes/what has happened to him.