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Jamaican British  - My favourite line is 'you cannot love sugar and hate your sweetness' this is because in the poem Antrobus was saying was saying how he 'hate dem, all dem Jamaicans - I'm British' but he is Jamaican British. The line about sugar and sweetness  is trying to prove that you shouldn't be ashamed about who you are and that you are you.

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My favourite line from Sound Machine is: "I still channel him." It is a short line, but I really like it because it is saying that even though his Dad isn't around anymore, his Dad still speaks through him. I also really like the line "It is his grave that tells me the name his black body, even in death, could not move or mute." I really like this line because of the message it conveys. The word "mute" tells me that you have to live with your identity and embrace it. It also tells me that the grief and memories can't be stopped.

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'He would become Rasta and never tell a soul about that name that undid his blackness'
This line is very powerful in the sense that he (Antrobus' dad) didn't want anyone to know the name that made him not black. I think that he was possibly ashamed of this name. But Antrobus does not think anyone should be ashamed of their identity because it is who they are and they shouldn't change it. He did talk about it a bit in the poem, in that no one should be ashamed for who they are, and that he did have that English middle name but that shouldn't take away his blackness .

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Jamaican British
The poet feels confused, as in the poem he is just trying to figure out who he is and whether he is Jamaican, British or both.
The poet's attitude is confident, brave and willing.
The poem makes me feel annoyed that everybody comes with a label and that people (Antrobus's  classmates), are trying to change who he really is.

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My favourite thing about the poem Jamaican British, is the way Antrobus said 'I hate dem'
I like this because it uses Jamaican idiolect, making the reader feel empathy and emotion.

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Jamaican British- He talks about the conflict of being either Jamiacan or British. He talks about the pressure to choose what he accepts as his identity, for example he mentions that fellow pupils have made him choose, Jamaican or British, this was my favourite line. It represents the conflict between the two countries (seeing as the British enslaved the Jamaican) and this line seems like 'you're either with us or against us'. This may seem sad but I love how he just embraces and explores his identity despite the pressure society may put on him.

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You cannot love sugar and hate sweetness as he said "hate Jamaicans" that metaphor  applies as he is half Jamaican but claims he hates Jamaicans. I just think that this quote from his dad is so clever. You cannot love and hate the same thing. He had to accept he is Jamaican British.

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I have a few favourite things and one of my favourite things is, 'tells me the name his black body,  even in death, could not move or mute.' Even there and throughout the poem we have musical harmonies. I like it because it kind of says that you cannot turn down your heritage, you cannot mute it. It's your identity and his father was proud of being Jamaican.

Jamaican British

'In school I fought a boy in the lunch hall - Jamaican.
At home, told Dad I hate dem, all dem Jamaicans - I'm British.' Antrobus shows that he was seen as Jamaican when he was fighting but when he came home and said, he hates all 'dem' Jamaicans he's British. But when he was speaking he was using Jamaican idiolect. So it was kind of like he was comparing his heritages and at different times he was seen as different parts of his hertiage.

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Jamaican British - I think that the poet feels quite out of place when he talks about people always questioning if he is Jamaican or British. What the poet does is he says that he can be Jamaican and British. This poem made me feel sad because he feels really out of place and has to choose.

'Jamaican, British' and then at the end 'Jamaican British' I think that this is really powerful because he is accepting himself for who he is and not letting other people's opinions change that.

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I love the repetition, in this poem it really makes you question your heritage.                                                            The penultimate line of the poem says Jamaican British. There is no comma here implying a sense of resolution. If we compare this with the other line where there is a comma ' Jamaican, British?' here he creates a caesura, this structure is used to create a split between his two identities where he has to choose;                      Jamaican, British?

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The poet describes how hard it is to be from Britain and Jamaica. He says that at school he is more Jamaican but in Jamaica he is more British. It shows you how hard it is to be both.

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Aamnah Jamaican British.                      It makes me feel thankful that people accept me for me. 

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Aamnah Jamaican British.                      It makes me feel thankful that people accept me for me. 

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This is a sad poem about being scared to be yourself.
The poet might feel lost and confused with his identity. Whereas the poem also shows that we should be  ourselves to be the best person we all want to be. It also shows we should be grateful for who we are.

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My favourite line was "but the English boys made me choose: Jamaican, British?" I like this line because it sounds so powerful, you can tell he feels pressured to choose his identity by the boys who only have one,  and he feels as if he has to decide. But Antrobus doesn't want to choose, because he's proud of both his Jamaican and British heritage. In this poem, he talks about the privileges, disadvantages, and the conflict Antrobus went through because of his Jamaican heritage. I really liked the fact he put a range of point of views in the poem.

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I really like the message it conveys because I think it conveys a really good message. It says that people need to be proud of their identity and embrace it no matter what. It makes me feel proud of who I am and my identity, and it teaches me that I need to be proud of my identity and embrace it.

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Jamaican British- I think that the poet is trying too make us feel like race isn’t a thing you have to choose and you are born who you are. The poet might be feeling a bit sad and unsure as this was him and all those feelings rushing through his head about his race. The poet's attitude is that why should we have to choose what race he is and why can’t people accept he is half and half which makes a whole.

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My favourite line is, 'you cannot have sugar without sweetness.' This line strikes me because it is saying you can't have one thing without the other so be both Jamaican and British and that you should embrace both cultures and be proud to have a dual identity.