The paragraph expresses the boy’s ambivalent emotions of frustration, fear and sorrowful while going

to school. The main sentence reflects the feeling of sorrowful. The writer uses the word dragged to
depict the tiredness of the child due to some issue in his life. The phrase head hung down adds on to
the previous state of being tired and highlights the misery in the child. Furthermore,” shoulders were
slumped” emphasis the state of giving up.
The first sentence focuses on the feeling of anger. Here the writer uses powerful verbs like stabbed
and tumbled to indicate the child’s frustration on the coke can. Here the “School gates” underlines the
setting of the paragraph. “hands were trembling” showcase the fear in the child cause by some reason
which is unknown to the reader yet. The phrase, “Clutched tightly” is being used to depict the rising
nervousness in the child as he approaches the school gate.
The writer uses colours like pink to showcase the imagery of the letter to help the reader grasp the
scenario. To conclude the paragraph outlines the mixed emotions of child through his actions. The
writer has created a sense of pity on the reader by using powerful language.

In the given sentences, the writer describes how the boy was feeling angry, anxious and nervous as
he walks to school against his will. The phrase ‘stabbed his toe at a discarded coke can’ suggests that
the boy was trying to let out his anger on the can and in doing so he almost poked a hole in the can.
This also shows that the boy was very angry.
The writer uses the phrase ‘dragged his satchel’ conveys that the boy has been forced to go to school
and is unwillingly walking towards the school gates. The writer also uses the phrase ‘clutched tightly’
which suggests that the boy is letting out his frustration on the pink letter and it also tells us that he is
unwilling to share the content in the letter with anyone else and so is holding it tightly in his hand and
trying to hide the letter.
The phrase ‘hands were trembling’ suggests that he is feeling nervous and scared of entering the
school gates and is shivering with fear.