Just ask the young girl from ‘father and child’. Trapped in her childhood innocence, she believed death ‘clean and final’. Using highly narrative fast and confident language like “Daybreak; I rose; I crept out with my father’s gun…" we see her single mindedness. She is so sure that what she believes is true, she shoots a half-blind owl in defiance of her ‘old no-sayer’ father, and then sees death for what it really is. Complicated, messy, painful. The owl “dropped and dribbled”, tangled in its internal organs. This use graphic imagery and alliteration depict death as a

tragedy of prolonged pain. This shatters her belief and outlook of the world. She realizes her naivety as she cries in her father’s arms, ‘owl-blind in early sun’. But, 40 years later in “nightfall�

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