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b) Write down what the child in the poem is afraid of.
A millionbtllionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, other children? So noisy? So much at home they _rnust have been bom in uniform. Lived all their lives in playgrounds. Spent the years inventing games that don't let me in. Games that are rough, that swallow you up.
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And the railings. All around, the railings. Are they to keep out wolves and monsters? Things that carry off and eat children? _Things you dorittake sweets from?
Perhaps they're to stop us getting out. Running away from the lessins. Lessin. What does □ lessin look like? Sounds small and slimy.
?2_Jhey keep them in glassrooms.
Whole rooms made out of glass. Imagine.
I wish I could remember my name. ^ Mummy said it would come in useful, \
25_Like wellies. When there's puddles.
Yeliowellies. 1 wish she was here.
I think my name is sewn on somewhere. /"
Perhaps the teacher will read it for me.
Tea-cher. The one who makes the tea.
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