Floella benjamin autobiography coming to england extract

Look at the following extract from Floella Benjamin's autobiography, Coming to England. Here she is describing her family’s home in Trinidad, a large island in the Caribbean.

While you are reading the extract, think about the impressions you get of the room and how the writer creates these impressions.

This room was my mother's pride and joy.

Its brilliant white curtains always smelt fresh and the mahogany furniture was always highly polished, as was the wooden floor. My sister and I spent many hours polishing that room from as far back as I can remember. We had to do the polishing before we left for school each day.

The comfortable wooden chairs in the room were draped with crisp white headrests and the round table, which we ate from on Sundays and other special occasions, had a doily in its centre, on which sat a glass of glorious fresh flowers.

Coming to England by Floella Benjamin

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