Example for how to analyse a quotation.

1. WHAT
A Mother in a Refugee
Camp.
“She held a ghost-smile between her teeth,”
Didn’t want to
let go
Ghost - signals
death
Imagery of
gritting teeth
Use of pronoun
accentuates the
regular occurrence
of this scenario
Ghost of mother and
child
Ghost-smile because
of memories of former
life
Teeth links to
hunger
Try to cover these 3 areas in your annotations:
1.Feelings of the subject and effect on the reader.
2.Author’s intention. What is the author trying to make the reader think or feel?
3.Find an alternative opinion or multiple layer of meaning.
Of the smile
- literal
Of her son -
hidden
gritting teeth
because she is
helpless