"THE WRITER" EXPLANATION

TITLE

wHAT WE PREDICT

• We think "The Writer" is about the process of writing a story

PARAPHRASE

THE STORY IS ABOUT

• The speaker is talking about his daughter being in the process of writing
• The speaker is also a writer, and knows how hard it is to write a story.
• How you pour your heart into it
• He wants happiness and all things good for his daughter

CONNOTATION

Personification: "the whole house seems to be thinking"
Simile: "like a chain hauled over a gunwale" comparing the sound of typewriter keys

ATITTUDE

ATITTUDE

• Is stressful

SHIFT

THE SHIFT IS

• "I remember the dazed starling
• Which was trapped im that very room, two years ago;
• How we stole in, and lifted a sta

THEME

THE THEME

• Life is a journey filled with rough times and triumph

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