Question

Mum Dad and Me, extracts from a poem by James Berry. Give two ways in which the life of the child in the poem is different from his parents' childhoods.

Answer 1

Answer:

His parents grew up in a country where it was warm and tropical.

His parents' childhoods were carefree.

Explanation:

In the poem "Mum, Dad, and Me", the poet James Berry compare and contrast the lives of his parents with his own. The two ways in which the life of the child in the poem is different from his parents' childhoods are:

• His parents grew up in a country where it was warm and tropical while he grew up in a place where it was cold, pale and misty.

• The poet says that his parents' childhoods were carefree. During childhood, his dad always played outside and rode a donkey whereas the poet is stuck on his phone now. And during his mother's childhood, she would talk and shout near the hills or walked on foot everywhere whereas the poet would take a bus or train now.