Alexander uses language to represent herself as “a woman cracked by multiple migrations”. More specifically she employs diction, imagery and figurative terms to create a clear picture of a woman questioning her life and what it could have amounted to.
Alexander employs an extended metaphor throughout the autobiography comparing herself to something fragile and cracked such as glass. Her choice of the words “shards” “fractured” and “splinters” are associated with the frailty of glass. Alexander views herself as a “mass of faults” that simply cannot come together leading to her inability to feel completely satisfied and happy with herself. In contrast with this metaphor she uses another metaphor comparing herself with a beautiful flower. This
Alexander employs an extended metaphor throughout the autobiography comparing herself to something fragile and cracked such as glass. Her choice of the words “shards” “fractured” and “splinters” are associated with the frailty of glass. Alexander views herself as a “mass of faults” that simply cannot come together leading to her inability to feel completely satisfied and happy with herself. In contrast with this metaphor she uses another metaphor comparing herself with a beautiful flower. This