the character sketch photograph
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You want the reader to have a strong mental image of the person, to know how the person talks, to know the person's characteristic ways of doing things, to know something about the person's value system. Character sketches only give snapshots of people; therefore, you should not try to write a history of the person.
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The poet is probably in her late twenties or early thirties. She is sad. With an old photograph of her mother and two of her cousin sisters, all of them still little girls, she feels at a loss. She doesn’t have any memory of her mother as the mother had died when she was too small to remember. The poem is divided into two stages – before the mother’s death and after the mother’s death.
Stage One –
A new photograph
The poet is looking at an old, discolored photograph of her mother, which was taken when her mother was 12 years old or so. She had gone for a sea holiday with her cousins Betty and Dolly along accompanied by her uncle (whose uncle is not clear. Probably mother’s uncle).
After paddling the boat, they got ashore. The uncle asked them to stand together to pose for a photograph. The poet’s mother was the eldest of the three. She was very shy so each of the cousins was holding the poet’s mother’s hands. All the three of them stood smiling through their hair while the photo was taken. Probably their hair got ruffled up in the air or it was a trend among girls to let their hair hide a side of their face. Her mother had a sweet face. All these happened before the poet was born.
Stage Two –
An old Cardboard
Many years passed and her mother grew up to an adult. They all underwent changes while the sea stood still. The mother died and Betty and Dolly must have aged. Here the poet presents an assumption for us – what could have happened if her mother hadn’t died? After about twenty or thirty years the poet’s mother would look at the photograph laughing nostalgically and remembering the past. She would appreciate the dress worn by her cousins Betty and Dolly. The sea holiday belonged to the past of her mother and the poet still remembers how her mother would laugh looking at the snap shot. For the poet both these bring great sadness and an acute sense of loss. Her mother died 15 to 18 years ago and now the poet has noting to say about this circumstance of the photograph
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