Q2. Look in detail at this extract from lines 5 to 20 of the Source: “Her death the dividing mark: Before and After. And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these
years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came
alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through
her eyes was to see it in brighter colours than ordinary - I remember a few weeks before she died,
eating a late supper with her in an Italian restaurant down in the Village, and how she grasped my
sleeve at the sudden, almost painful loveliness of a birthday cake with lit candles being carried in
procession from the kitchen, faint circle of light wavering in across the dark ceiling and then the
cake set down to blaze amidst the family, beatifying an old lady's face, smiles all round, waiters
stepping away with their hands behind their backs - just an ordinary birthday dinner you might
see anywhere in an inexpensive downtown restaurant, and I'm sure I wouldn't even remember it
had she not died so soon after, but I thought about it again and again after her death and indeed
I'll probably think about it all my life that candlelit circle, a tableau vivant of the daily,
commonplace happiness that was lost when I lost her.
She was beautiful, too. That's almost secondary, but still, she was. When she came to New York
fresh from Kansas, she worked part-time as a model though she was too uneasy in front of the
camera to be very good at it; whatever she had, it didn't translate to film.”

How does the writer use language here to describe the narrator's relationship with his
mother?
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You could include the writer's choice of:
words and phrases
language features and techniques
sentence forms