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‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ and‘Search for my Tongue’ both show people thinking about their roots - How does each poet convey her thoughts and feelings?
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'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' and 'Search for my Tongue' both show people thinking about their roots. How does each poet convey her thoughts and feelings? Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan is about a girl who was brought up in England, however, was born in Pakistan. Her father is Pakistani and her mother is English. She feels torn between her two cultures. This poem explores the dilemma of a divided culture. Search for my Tongue is about a girl who has moved from her native country and now lives in a foreign land where she has to speak English in her everyday life. She thought she had forgotten Gujarati, her mother tongue but then the Gujerati comes out every time she thinks she had forgotten it. She speaks for many people who fear loosing there culture and mother tongue. There are quite a few similarities between the two...
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