As time passes and we physically grow it is an unavoidable consequence of life to take part in experiences that modify our perceptions to some extent. Hannah Roberts short story Sky High illustrates this idea as similes and metaphors are interwoven within the author’s recount of her childhood and her adulthood experiences within her backyard. This is used to create a contrasting image between a child's view and an adults view. To the child the “trees are like spectators”; this metaphor/simile is implying that the child’s world is lively and animated .. the child, climbs on then swings on the clothesline. The clothesline serves as a metaphor, the ability to swing on it symbolising freedom of the child and the inability to swing on it, showing the responsibility of being an adult. The adult however views the world in a more cynical tone. There are ‘lines’ and ‘scars’ on the adults hand; these wrinkles reflect the experiences people inevitably face. Much like aging is an inevitable process of life, so is change.The metaphor in the last lines of the story express the composer’s change in perspective from childhood to adulthood. The inclination is still there, a small pilot light burning somewhere inside, but it is
In 10 Mary Street, the correlation between change and the constant condition of the migrant experience is also explored. The poet describes the childhood house, focussing on the ambivalent concept of home. It questions what and where, “home” is for the migrant whose perceptions of the present are also informed by the home of the past. Ironically the poem is about a more concrete perception of home. The family is on a journey of change, which seems to be the permanent condition of the migrant when settled for that repetitive length of time “ for nineteen years.” The changing perspective in this poem is revealed by stealth as the responder gradually comes to realise that despite the persona’s obvious pride and satisfaction in the routine surrounding and security of the family home there is a looming dispossession that will strike at the very fabric of this immigrant family. They have been uprooted from their country of origin and see that there is a similarity between that exile and the one in Australia that they know face as a result that their: “whole block/had been gazetted for industry.” The final irony of being a citizen of Australia is revealed. “Inheritors of a key/That'll open no house..” T
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