BREATH, EYES, MEMORY

By: Edwidge Danticat

Themes Narrative
Techniques
Love and Family Relationships Symbolism (daffodil s, sheets, the
colours-red, green and yellow,
mother’s day card,cassette, picture
frame, Erzulie, the canefield, food,
balloon, hibiscus)

Generational trauma (cancer in the family) Motif (dreams/nightmares,

Si el cancer,doubling)

Women in w Storytelling (ginen people, marasas, the

woman bleeding uncontrollably,
Grandma Ife talking about her three
children, story about a bird)

Traditions Bildungsroman

Guilt Irony

Memory and the Past Setting (Haiti and US)

Identity, Allusion - Historical Allusion

Growth and Maturity Foreshadowing

Freedom

Expectation vs Reality Point of View - first person

Politics Proverb

Rebellion and Submission Backstory

Mother Daughter Relationship First person POV

Female Sexuality Flashback

Crime and Violence Diction

Friendship Allegory
Culture Imagery

Places Contrast

Poverty

Death

Male—Female Relationships

Education

Migration

Language

Religion

Dreams and aspirations

Childhood Experiences

Discrimination

Masculinity

Doubling and Insanity

Places

Insanity

Oppression
 To Kill a Mockingbird
By: Harper Lee

THEMES NARRATIVE
TECHNIQUES
Moral Development Symbolism (Camellia Flower, fire, mud
snowman, (cemented) knothole, Atticus’
pocket watch, mockingbird, aluminium
knife, rabid dog, ball of grey twine,
tarnished medal, the fire, Mayella’s red
geraniums, soap carvings, the pennies, the
chewing gum, the blanket placed around
scout, maycomb jail, light and dark, the gun
used by atticus to kill the rabid dog,

Love and family Relationships Setting

Childhood Experiences Bildungsroman

Racism Foreshadowing

Women in Society Point of View- First Person

Appearance vs Reality Flashback

Hypocrisy Motif (the superstition of Boo Radley and

scout, jem and dill playing out the life of
boo radley)

Innocence Flash Forward

Courage Backstory - of the Finch

Growth and Maturity Allegory - Boo Radley, Atticus, Aunt

Alexandra, Tom Robinson, Dolphus
Raymond, Mrs. Dubose

The Coexistence of Good vs Evil Allusion - the Great Depression

Superstition Contrast

Education Diction - the southern language based on the

speech of the children.
Poverty Irony

Prejudice - Racial, social, class, gender and

religious

Justice and Injustice

Revenge

Power and authority

Friendship

Religion

Crime and Violence

Culture

Gender

Conflict

Responsibility