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On pages 220 – 221 the modality changes from the inclusive “we” to a more frequent use of I, also “Beth and I” is repeated showing the exclusiveness and the focus is now solely on Dave himself yet still cannot put himself before others this possibly shows his maturity and the parental figure that he has become even at the time of the autobiography that does not include Toph, Beth or anyone apart from Dave and his friends. Much like the actual death of their mother, Eggers uses the punctuation in his answer to slow the reader, the Asyndetic listing creates a sense of the last moments of the mother “just breathing, gurgling, the candles, her hot skin” the use of punctuation before and in this slows the reading and creates emphasis on this. “ saying something” “ breathing, gurgling” suggests that these were just sounds no longer their mother speaking and similar to how Toph had firstly been introduced as just a voice showing that he wasn’t necessarily important but in this chapter in puts the focus back onto Dave.  The lexical choice of “waiting” and “watching” show the manipulation of time as the connotations are usually something slow or even tedious but here it is used to show the slow passing of time similar to the “nosebleed”.

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In this section of the book Eggers is describing his childhood living at home and in particular he is talking about his fathers aggressive behaviour towards him 'well, he broke it in, broke off the lock and the doorknob, half a hinge and everything' this shows how his father would often become aggressive and Eggers would try his best to hide and get away from him until he is able to calm down so they can come out of hiding from their rooms. Eggers then talks highly of him mum and mentions how she would protect them from their dad 'when my mum heard the sound of the door breaking, she came running and so he only had a few seconds before she was in the room and he was in trouble' this maybe why Eggers had always felt closer to his mum as she would be the one to protect him from his fathers behaviour and rage when he was younger. However, Eggers talks about how his mother would also hit him but it was for something that they had done wrong and not just because she felt like it or because she was drunk like the father.

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Eggers talks about his dad and how he drinks a lot of alcohol. We get the impression that Eggers and his family don't like his father drinking. It says 'all while we were all flushed with pride and hope, believing that he had quit' which shows us that they believed in him and thought he would stop the drinking.

Eggers tells us that his father drank a lot more alcohol than he should've. It says 'he used a tall glass' and then after this on page 229, Eggers says 'what goes in the tall glass? A soft drink of course!' and this shows us that his father was drinking from the tall glass rather than a small glass. This shows Eggers worry towards his father and the amount he was drinking.

We get the impression that Eggers mother was also concerned about how much Eggers father was drinking. It says 'I imagine at some point our exhausted mother just came to terms with him - this many drinks a night and no more, blah blah'. This shows us that Eggers wants his mother to care for her husband and wants her to try and stop him from drinking excessively. The phrase 'blah blah' shows that his father has been told many times before about his drinking but he doesn't listen because he has been told too many times from Eggers mother. This also shows us that Eggers cares about his fathers health as well.

We get the impression of freedom in this section of the book because up until this chapter, we aren't told a huge deal about his life and everything is left unfinished and not very clear. Reading most of the chapters of the book leading up to this chapter we are constantly debating whether or not what we are being told is the truth or a lie but however, in chapter 6, Eggers lets out everything about his father that we didn't get a sense of before and everything suddenly becomes very serious and truthful. All the way through the book up until chapter 6, we get the impression that Eggers likes to keep himself private but when he blurts out everything about his father, we see a different side to him which shows him becoming free of speech and expressing himself to the world about a very difficult subject.

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in this bit it is finally explained to us what happened in the time between chapter 1 and 2 after the parent's death and what the siblings did. We find out that both parents had their bodies donated to medical science and the people who took their bodies promised to cremate them and send Dave and Beth the ashes but it has been two years and they have got nothing back. This makes Dave feel as though he completely lost all memory and trace of his parents because they don't have anything to remember them by like a gravestone or their ashes. he says that he was busy finishing college while Beth was the person  organising everything for their move to California, which is very different to all the other chapters when Dave's the one organising e

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On these two pages Eggers talks about his childhood and in particular his father. He recalls how his father would punish him usually by hitting and shouting at him. He describes his fathers aggressive nature and the fear he felt of him at the time. He also describes how him and his siblings would run away usually to the park or they would look them self in the bathroom to allow their father to calm down.  He says 'and so, while in my room, while staring at the door, hyperventilating, I looked around for ideas' this shows how nervous and frightened he was of his father.
Eggers also suggests in this section that he didn't see much of his father during his childhood, he says 'we only saw our father, an avid golfer, a few daylight hours each week' this could indicate that he resented his father because the only time he was at home he would spend it punishing them in an aggressive manner.
This is the first time we have heard in detail about Eggers childhood relationship with his father and it is almost as if Eggers finally feels as he is able and confortable to talk about it.

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On page 212 Eggers states he already feels like he is in a fishbowl, he adds that he feels like he "is being watched at all times." When asked "by whom?" his response allows him now to express his feelings and focus on himself, which he hasn't done so far within the book. Eggers talks of his mothers eyes at first he says "I imagine it started off with my mom and the way she had of..." Eggers makes a change in his comment about his mother and talks of her actual eyes. "She had amazing eyes, these small sharp eyes... tearing into you" he states she never missed a thing no matter where she was, she could always see what was happening or what he was doing.

Eggers shares that he likes bathrooms, he states he likes bathrooms "because usually while inside, I can be almost sure... that no one is watching me" he shares that he takes "great comfort" in places people cannot see him. Eggers then lists all the private places he enjoys "windowless rooms, basements, small rooms." we get more of an insight into what Eggers is like and what he likes, how he enjoys privacy and hiding away from others, this links to his self-awareness/ self -absorbed mind. This is very ironic due to him wanting to be on MTV and writing this novel.

"Probably very rarely are they actually watching me but the point is... it could be at anytime... I know this." we get a sense of paranoia here. Eggers seems to believe everyone is watching him, at any time, any place and he knows it. He is very aware of his surroundings, this is supported when asked the follow up question "how do you know this?" he responds with "because I am always watching people." Eggers is no longer the prey being watched, he is the hunter. "When i watch people i too look through them," he claims he learned it from his mother, and when he watches someone for a moment, he knows everything about them "I  can tell from their clothes, their walks, their hair and hands". Eggers begins to be very negative and depressing when he states "I know how they've failed, how they will fail and how miserable they are" he has this opinion/view that people have already failed or will eventually fail, kind of this negative view on people's lives.

When asked "and people are doing this to you?" he responds with a "

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In these particular pages you get the sense of mounting pressure on both Dave and Beth. After the tragic loss of their parents they have that of significant responsibility to provide for their younger sibling Toph.  Eggers himself also seems to be regretful of not having a traditional sent off for his parents and we later acknowledge that his parents bodies have simply been donated to medical science. He seems to constantly refer to Beth in making that decision.

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On these pages, his relationship with his Father is mentioned in some amount of detail. However, there is only descriptions about his drinking and his lying, showing only a negative side to his Father, implying that he didn't have a close relationship with him, this is further shown when he says "in a lot of ways, we still hated him and feared him." This tells us that his Father may not have been a good one and was selfish, especially when it came to his addiction. However, we do see Dave has a certain respect for his Father, it says "It's a trick I have to respect being diabolical myself and all." This is interesting as it is clear that Dave see's he's Father in himself, showing that he must respect him or that he would be disrespecting himself. The use of the word "trick" also symbolizes that he was father was always putting on an act, further emphasizing that he never really knew he Father. Also, his use of direct address " can you imagine?" directly speaks to the reader and emphasizes the fact that this interview is fictional and that he wants to express his personal experiences to the reader. Also, when talking about his Fathers sly and secretive personality it says " A soft drink, of course." The use of italics is relevant here, as it shows him almost mocking himself for being fooled by his Father, even though he respects his cleverness, he feels stupid for falling for it. Dave also repeatedly uses the lexis "still" to show his Father weakness when drinking, and that he is predictable and won't change. Throughout these pages, is it clear that Dave is finally confessing his similarity to his Father, as he has been hiding his true emotions behind humor and sarcasm, as his Father would behind his alcoholism. This is interesting as the structure of these few pages differ from the first time his Father is mentioned, it was a lot shorter and less explained and detailed.  Whereas, in this part of the chapter it's almost as if he's being counselled and is opening up to the reader about his Rough childhood, that wasn't necessarily Idealistic, as it comes across from the book before this chapter.

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Eggers discusses his personal opinion of death and what he thinks of it. He then describes death but it all seems to have been the way his mother died. His mother’s death might have influenced his depressive and negative ideas of what death is. He believes in the idea that you can celebrate your own living. However he acknowledges that everyone has their own opinion of death by saying calling it ‘subjective’.
He then gives a description of his mother’s later time of illness and how he and Beth felt and thought about what was happening.  He still has a clinical perceptive on what happens and doesn’t really express and feeling behind what he saw. He however must have spent a lot of time thinking about it however as he had accepted it as an inevitability. ‘I expected her to go at any point, really.’

He talks quite morbidly about the time leading up to his mother’s inevitable death and the silent planning of how to deal with it. He goes as far to be hoping that she’d died sooner as he and Beth continued to watch her health worsen and this is one of the times where his open description of her illness isn’t cold and distant or told through the use of humour to take away that edge of seriousness that he was hiding from. We then discover that he actually seems to have a very negative response to the memories of watching her die and not the Humorous, clinical way of retelling events.
He cuts himself off to notice that his body language is reflecting his negative emotions of his mother’s death. He claims to see himself in the reflection ‘sneering involuntary’ but as this interview is a literary device this could actually be him writing about the self realisation he had in which he was acknowledging that he wasn’t ok with how she died; he hasn’t accepted it though as in the interview it comes across a more as a passing comment and not a major observation

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In this section of chapter 6, Eggers is talking about his thoughts and mind, and the way he deals/dealt with his parents death. He believes that although he tells people about his life, the intricate details of his parents death and illnesses, but he claims that, he hasn't really told anything. nobody really knows anything and he doesn't care if you know these things about him, as it does not solve anything or lessen his sadness. Eggers says that "i give you all the best things i have, and while these thing are things that i like, memories that i treasure, good or bad, like the pictures of my family on the walls, i can show them too you without diminishing them".

Eggers does not feel it is worthwhile to dwell on his pain, because doing so does not affect whether he feels it or not. He wants to use this book to show that, although he has dealt with a lot of grief and issues in his earlier life, this does not affect who he is now, or who he will go on to be. Eggers feels that by telling these stories, he is moving on. these stories are out their for people to see and read, but they do not know Eggers and he does not care for peoples opinion on them. Eggers uses the imagery of a snake shedding its skin, to relate it to himself. Eggers is the snake, and "the skin is no longer his... and everyone could look at it". This is how Eggers views his past and his life in general, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius is the skin, by writing it, he is shredding this old skin, and will form a new self, where his past experiences wont define or influence him.

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The start of this extract shows Dave explaining the ''deal'' that him and Beth had about taking care of Toph. The detail within this deal and how Dave says ''the point is that we would not use each other, to use obligation as an excuse to say no to things'' suggests a foreshadowing tone. The extract also portrays Dave's self obsession and ego as he outlines what not to do suggesting he thinks that he can achieve what others can't for example how him and Beth ''will not hold back or become bitter and years later blame him or each other right?''. The use of the interrogative contradicts his self obsession and ego with an undertone of doubt in his ability to keep a stable relationship within his family.
Dave's self obsession is further depicted in how he interrupts ''Laura''  when she says ''About the show...''  he explains how the show should revolve around him.  Starting with the discourse marker ''Right'' shows he feels he has authority or as evidenced by the following paragraph has had previous thoughts about this. His controlling nature comes through with the phrases ''i figured'', ''i have it all pictured'' and ''you see the potential''. There is also a repetition of the modal auxiliary ''would''  suggesting certainty which illustrates Dave's certainty  about him being on the show.
His self obsession is most evident through the his monologue explaining why his life is ''gorgeous''. He personifies his youth. Gorgeous is an adjective of quality associated with aesthetics this is emphasized by ''Laura'' asking ''who's gorgeous''. This suggests that Dave thinks his life is nice to look at and observe .

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When discussing his mother’s medical history and procedures he breaks down the barrier between the reader and the writer when he takes time to directly interact with the reader, opposed to simply recalling events. Carrying on what he’d started in the rules for enjoyment. ‘{I would use the medical terms here if I knew them}’ when saying this he’s disrupted himself where he’s again what he uses a self-aware and a pragmatic view towards his mother’s illness.
He shows a lack of faith and some frustration when recalling about her chemotherapy.  By saying ‘But of course’ it gives a tone of exasperation.

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in this section Eggers shows his mother in a weak state by repeating that she stays "on the couch" this could be representing that Eggers only remembers her to be too weak to move anywhere, but tries to remember an easier time when "she was up and about, walking and driving, running errands" this shows that he cares for his mother more as she has been the parental figure as their is no mention of his father in a positive manor within the first few pages "she could no longer sleep with my father's coughing" this suggests he is an annoyance that disturbs his mother.

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This extract is about Dave Eggers' mother and her illness, "they took my mothers stomach out about six months ago..." His use of tense; he speaks of this as if it was literally six months ago, this shows his memory of his mother and her illness is very raw, it is still there, clear. Eggers states "there wasn't a lot left to remove" this shows his mother has had her stomach removed gradually to get rid of the illness. "They tied the [something] to the [something], hoped that they had removed the offending portion" the use of the parentheses, shows he hasn't got the language to described explicitly what the medial terms are because he does not care for them, he is less interested in the scientific side of it and is more interested in the literary side. Eggers' mother goes onto chemotherapy and later finds out the doctors didn't remove all of the cancer and unfortunately it had grown and spread across her body. "It had grown, it had come back, it had laid eggs" the use of repetition triad, describes the cancer growing and Eggers' describes cancer as an alien "it was stuck to the side of the spaceship."

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In the extract Eggers describes the time when his mother was diagnosed with stomach cancer for a second time.  The way in which Eggers writes about the personal recount of this time in his life is very emotive, the declarative ‘people have indigestion; people take Tums’ sounds like a reassurance to himself; understandably he does not want his mother to have cancer and is trying to avoid the worst case scenario.  He goes on to personify his mother’s cancer, the adjectives ‘swarming, shimmering, wet and oily’ create an image of something alien, something that should not be in his mother’s body.  His description of the cancer as a ‘city’ with ‘environmentally careless citizenry and no zoning laws whatsoever’ turns it into something it is not, through this metaphor Eggers reinforces the idea of something alien, the intruders have colonised his mother’s body, made the city theirs with no thought about the destruction it will cause. Eggers disguises his feelings amongst the imperatives ‘Turn off. The fucking. Light’ and ‘Go. The. Fuck. Away’, though these words are from the ‘cancer’ it is likely that this is how he is feeling himself.  He is exploring his feelings within this text and hidden in these words are his anger and fear, just as the cancer ‘glared at the doctor’ he has similar feelings towards the cancer.

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The section starts off with Eggers and his mum watching TV show about athletes competing against each other. There is some humor in the section as he recalls that the professional athletes have names like "Firestar, Mercury and Zenith". The fighting could symbolism her fighting through the illness- Eggers has most likely created this (it is unlikely he'd remember exactly what he was watching) just to make a point about how he felt. He felt like the amateur fighter against the massive body builder with a flashy name he doesn't quite understand (the illness). This small humor of the idea of a body builder with a name like "Firestar" mildly lightens the mood of the scene as it is quite a depressing section of his life.

Eggers also holds his mum's nose in the section which shows his bond with her and also he feels that it is his duty to care for his mum. "I relieve her" shows that he feels a duty of protection and responsibility to help is mum. He also says, "We are having a nose bleed" and the use of we suggests he feels that him and his mum are both fighting through the illness together. This shows the strain he is feeling to keep his family together and to help his family to survive.

The fact that he point out how her eyes are drooping where they once used to be "sharp and intimidating". Shows how badly the illness has affected his mother as the eyes are arguably the most intimate part of the body. The illness has changed her view of the world and how she perceives it and has taken over her daily life.

The "sucking on my Popsicle" shows how childish Eggers still feels (popsicles are often associated with children) and  he doesn't feel like a responsible enough adult to be dealing with the stress of the illness and the responsibility that it requires.

"Toph's shoes continues to rumble" reminds us of Toph and his innocence and what will happen to the family after his mum passes away. The short sentence brings us back away fro the illness.

The autobiography is in the present tense, this is odd because often autobiographies are in the past tense.

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On page three Egger's begins to go into detail about how his Mother's stomach got taken out. He explains how he would use the 'technical terms if he knew' them, this could suggest that he does not want to link his mother with the medical terms or that he does not want to get involved in the detail of it. Eggers has used the word "hoped, that they had removed the offending portion". This use of word is chosen as,  'hoped' is doubtful so this is a use of negative lexis which foreshadows the scene.  Also the use of' offending and proportion' gives the idea of imagery and also 'offending' is a negative lexical choice also so this is adding tension.

On the top of page 4 Eggers then describes, "how it had laid eggs, was stowed away, was stuck to the side of the spaceship". It had laid eggs is giving the imagery of an animal and stowed away is an image of going away, so this suggests that it is like an animal on the run. The side of the spaceship could signify going on a journey and also the 'spaceship' gives the idea of on another planet.

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you understand Daves mum is seriously ill due to the fact that he describes 'my mom turns her head and turns it back to spit up green fluid into a plastic receptacle.'

his description is very direct and clear which means the reader gets clear imagery about what the atmosphere is like within the house as they all take care of her.

'green fluid' is constantly repeated within this paragraph which is aimed to make the reader feel uncomfort and unease to the surrounding situation however he seems to be at ease with the fact he look afters his mother so much and knows what to expect.

he talks to his mother about the cup she has and responds back with 'its the cats meow' this shows there at terms and make a positive joke about the worse things that come along with the illness his mother has.

'let the fluid dribble down her face'this shows uncomfort and causes the reader to become disturbed

his sister seems more in the background

'the supply was running short'this is wear dave is discussing his mothers use of towels and the fact that they'd rather find clean ones then put them in the wash preserves the teenager that he is and represents him for his young age.

'not the same towel'this shows hes self aware and wants people to know he truly cared and look after-ed his mother to the best of his abilitypage 2

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The first section is about Eggers and his mother and how she is suffering from cancer and is unable to move from the couch in their family room. He says about how proud of herself she is when she manages to walk up the stairs now and again but he says that this hasn't been done for a couple of weeks now. We get an insight into how ill his mother is as she is unable to move and we also find out by the repetition of the word 'couch' how attached she is to it which then creates an image for the reader of what the illness is doing to her. We also find out what she was able to do before by Eggers using past tense saying 'there was a time, until a few months ago, when she was still up and about, walking and driving, running errands' and this is used to show us that she was stable at one point but now she has cancer, it is making her unstable and unable to do those things and I think that this shows the theme of change because we get a clear insight into his mothers past and present life and what she used to be able to do compared to what she cannot do anymore. We also find out that Eggers focus's on his mother a lot and this is shown as he describes her and her life in detail which gives us the impression that he cares about her and wants everybody to know how much of a tough time she is having.

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During this section on page 2, the son, Dave, is reflecting on the past when his mother was in better health 'In bare feet, still tanned brow' this shows how Dave remembers and examines every part of his mums body and the memories is very raw to him 'My mother is on the couch.' the use of the present tense shows how this is how he remembers her, always on the couch, being ill and having to look after her.

Dave describes how his mothers health has recently declined 'now she is on the couch, not moving from the couch, reclining on the couch' the repetition of the word 'couch' shows how his mother is very ill and cant do many things for herself and counts on her son for most of the tasks In her day to day life.

At the end, Dave says 'People know' this shows how people are aware of his mums illness but many people are afraid to say anything to them which makes us think that they are embarrassed by people knowing their business.

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Repetition of spitting ''green fluid'' to show it is a constant thing she is doing not a just every now and again. Green fluid is a synonym phrase for phlegm showing specific description and emphasis of the disgust. Avoiding the personal aspects of it being his mother he focuses on the receptacle as a way to give the reader information without stating it outright.  ''The plastic receptacle is new.'' sets up the extract to give some background on the ongoing problem that Eggars is going through not just with the ''fluid'' but with her illness.The use of a long embedded clause followed by the discourse marker ''finally'' shows the exhaust (the reader experiences this while trying to finish the sentence) that Eggars as gone through to stop a simple but constant problem.  The minor sentence near the beginning of this extract.

The theme of family responsibilities and relationships is presented well in this extract as Eggars has tried to find the most effective and easiest way for his mother to get rid of the ''green fluid''.

The detail in this section and the fact it is written in present tense although describing the past is aimed to immerse the reader as to have this much detail in a work of pure non-fiction is not common as it is difficult to remember.

Through this section he begins by calling her ''my mother'' suggesting a very personal and strong relationship, it then develops into ''our mother'' and later when describing the plastic receptacle ''his or her chin''. This development suggest that as time is going on she is becoming less familiar to him although they still have a strong relationship it is changing.

He finishes the extract by asking his mother ''This thing is handy, huh?'' he has previously stated that it was a great find so the tag question may actually be aimed for a different purpose - to check she is okay-. If he was to directly ask if she was okay he would be admitting that he knows she is not so this is possibly a way of staying in denial.

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In this section, Eggers is talking about the lack of movement of  his mother is doing, he is describing more the rooms she resides in and the things that she no longer does, rather than her condition.  Eggers keeps talking about the colour of the carpet or the colour of the walls yet he doesn’t talk about his mother, he only says that she barely moves and it suggests a sense of him distancing himself from the situation. The fact that he has repeated the fact she is on the “couch” implies that her existence is focused on this couch and she is revolved around this couch. The interesting detail of “tanned feet” implies that before she developed her cancer she was adventurous, she went travelling, she went on holiday or just the fact that she liked the sun but now she can barely move from this one single couch. Eggers also uses the present tense, as if she is still alive and as if he is talking at the time that he is describing, which is unusual for an autobiography. At the end of the paragraph he uses a short sentence of “people know” to allude to something that the audience have no idea about. We are left wondering as to what he is referring to and it is also in the present tense which again is unusual, it follows his idea of breaking the typical conventions of an autobiography but as a reader it immerses you into the writing as if it’s a piece of fiction.

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In this section, we find out that the mother cannot move very well and that the disease has taken over her completely, she cannot walk or drive, she is completely bed ridden because the disease/illness has finally conquered her. There is a key theme of change in this section as Eggers has listed the key differences in the mother from months or weeks ago, he has added his own view and clear knowledge in this section. The whole section appears to be about the last physical movements his mother has before he becomes responsible for her. Eggers keeps describing things in the room yet he doesn’t talk about his mother, he only says that she barely moves and it suggests that he may be trying to distant himself from everything that is currently happening to the women who raised him.

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In this extract Dave and his mum are both watching TV game show that his mum describes as 'The fighting show thing." this is symbolic because his mum is currently fighting for her life against the cancer destroying her body. The extract also shows that his mum is having a nosebleed and it not till later that we find out that the nosebleed is the beginning of the end for his mum which Egger shows with: 'Her skin is hot.' showing that she may have a fever and that she is slowly starting to die. This extract is also the first time we hear Toph mentioned with: 'Toph's shoes continue to rumble.' showing that there is another person in the house other that him, his mother and his sister Beth and the rumbling is trying to show that everything is still going on as normal while his mother is having that nosebleed that could be fatal.

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"It could just be indigestion, of course, the burping and the pain, the leaning over the kitchen table at dinner; people have indigestion; people take Tums; Eggers tries to downplay and normalize his mother's illness. That in the end it could not be as serious. He is very hopeful, "people take tums", he acts as if it could all be over soon. " It's kind of cute, the IV bag." Eggers continues to normalizes the his mum's illness, playing it down. He calls the IV bag 'cute' suggesting, small, not serious, endearing even. He could be trying to accept it, that it is a part of how she functions, and see it in a better light.

He describes his mums cancer in a rather detached and childlike way, personifying it and bringing it to life. He describes the cancer as "a tiny city...each with an unruly sprawling, environmentally careless citizen." He describes her illness in a sense that it is polluting her from the inside out, and almost makes a comparison to human beings and their ways. This could suggest that he was not particularly fond of people in his time (he was part of generation X), and wanted change in the way people acted. He was not a conformist at all. The adjectives "swarming, shimmering, wet and oily" makes the illness seem like something foreign and alien, that should not be there.

In this section his underlying feelings come out, even though the anger is mainly coming from the cancer he has personified, "Turn off. The fucking. Light" and "Go. The. Fuck. Away." , he explores his emotions incognito, and shows his anger and fear on the subject.

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Section 2 is mostly about Egger's mothers illness and what it entails he talks about the 'green fluid' his mother constantly brings up and the complications that it causes. He also talks about the responsibility he and his sister shared caring for their mother as they both go out their way to find something to help with their mother's symptoms.

"its a molded plastic receptacle, cream-coloured, in the shape of a half moon" this is a very detailed description of something that is quite insignificant. This shows that he has a vast memory of his mother and can remember even the smallest details. It could also indicate that he will talk about anything to distract away form actually talking about the illness its self.

Egger is also very relaxed and not phased when he talks about his mothers medical symptoms which most people would cringe at, this shows that he is used to it and have accepted the illness to a certain extent. he says 'my mom turns her head to watch television and turns it back to spit up green fluid' this indicated that when this happens no heads are turned and it is a normal occurrence while 'watching TV'.

Another part that shows that Egger is relaxed about his mothers illness is when he says to his mother "That things handy, huh?" this could also show that he doesn't want to show that he is phased by anything to his mother so he may be putting on a front by acting relaxed about her bring up green fluid.

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"is it still bleeding?" I ask, sucking on my popsicle. This response from Eggers shows that they are all very used to these issues and are no longer phased by them, or tend not to show it at least. There is an acceptance to this illness from Eggers. You can sense no panic in his question, this is a regular occ

"we are having a nosebleed" In this quote, Eggers uses the inclusive pronoun 'we', which links to the theme of family responsibilities, it is not just the mother experiencing cancer and pain, but it is everyone.

Eggers goes into a detailed description of the body builders from the programme, going into detail about their appearance and then their names. He seems to avoid being as descriptive when it comes to his mothers illness and briefly mentions her experiencing a nose bleed. The details of his mother all tend to be quite negative. He has come to terms with the way she is now and doesn't bring in many emotions.