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Roberts opens the novel ruminating about choices, before revealing his epiphany about life came to him, “while [he] was chained to a wall and being tortured.”

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Robert portrays how through the ,"shackled, bloody helplessness," he became aware of his freedom to control the emotional turmoil, suggesting to readers that hatred is simply a matter of choice.

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When Roberts, "stood in airport queues," the first thing he noticed, "was the heat".

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Robert opens the narrative with an epiphany that tells the audience that life and freedom is about the choices we make, "i know about love and fate and the choices we make", he elaborates by explaining that choice is limited by our mind, "freedom is a universe of possibility".

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Roberts choice to incorporate metaphors within the rising action of the novel suggest why he is in Bombay, "Fate put me in the game there."

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When reflecting on his past life, Robert refers to himself as a "gunrunner, smuggler and a counterfeiter," however reveals through the use of personification that "luck ran with [him]," despite his previous transgressions.

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When Roberts get off the aeroplane his, "clothes clung to sudden sweat," indicating how hot and humid the Bombay area is.

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when Roberts 'walked along the umbilical corridor' he was both 'excited and delighted by it'

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Roberts describes the heat as, "[a] choking humidity."

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Roberts describes his epiphany by stating that "somehow, through the screaming in [his] mind...[he] was still free" showing that although he was physically "shackled, bloody and helpless" he still felt he was free mentally to make choices.

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the alliteration of 'the sweet, sweating smell'............

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The Ellipses + Double Hit from Different Sections ZAC

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The Ellipses + Double Hit from Different Sections ZAC

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"The heat... [and] the choking humidity," are ways Roberts describes Bombays environment.

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When explaining his journey to Bombay, Roberts employs metaphors, "Fate put me in the game" and explains that "luck dealt the cards" to construct an extended metaphor, enhancing the understanding of his disillusionment.

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Roberts displays his openness to a new life in India as he has 'come home' rather than feeling as if he 'couldn't recognise it'

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The Deluxe Standard- Monique and Matilda

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The Deluxe Standard- Monique and Matilda

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When Roberts' employs the metaphor "Luck dealt the cards", it illustrates his perspective on life, essentially how he viewed it as a game and thus fickle and trivial, an opinion that is brought abruptly to a conclusion later in the novel

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After recognizing 'the sweet, sweating, smell of hope', Roberts symbolises his changing perspective of Bombay through the utilization of the juxtaposition with 'the sour, stifled smell of greed'

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Robert's change of tone is portrayed as' the first thing i noticed about Bombay....was the smell of the different air'

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At the conclusion of the extract, Roberts uses an extended metaphor to represent or show his adaption to the environment, "the choking humidity... [made him an] amphibian," forcing him to breath, "water in air... [forcing him to] learn to live with it."

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Roberts describes the experience of 1970's prisoners as they were, "...chained to a wall and tortured," and how this, "...shackled, bloody helplessness, " lead to his epiphany that to love or hate is up to him.