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How does Samuel present relationship between mother and daughters in Kindertransport
Samuel uses different methods to present the relationship between mothers and daughters in kinder transport. She uses parallel narratives, time slips to show the different ways each mother treats their daughter and vice versa. She also uses objects to shows how strong their relationships are, stage directions and also characters such as the ratcatcher to show the relationships between them.

Eva starts off by calling her biological mother 'mutti' which shows that she considers her mother a very reliable, strong and important person in her life. This shows that Eva respects her mother and loves her mother. However towards the end of play Eva refers to her mother as that 'German woman'. This instantly shows us the audience that Eva does not consider Helga her mother anymore and is just a stranger she use to know. Eva goes further than that and proves the point to use the audience that she doesn't consider her someone important to remember in her life as she isn't sure 'she had lived her' which automatically makes us now that the relationship between Helga and Eva is no more and that it wasn't as strong as they thought as does not think she is significant.

Before Eva leaves for London she is given 'a gold watch' by her biological mother Helga. This shows that Helga had thought about all the different scenarios that could happen to her daughter that she loves and cares about Eva. As Gold is a rare metal it is worth a lot of money and so it is valuable and so Helga giving Eva this watch is a way of telling Eva not to forget about her as she is worth remembering and also is a back up plan invade something terrible happens to Eva and she needs money. However when Eva begins to mature and gets into her teenage years she starts to understand the situation she is in better. As a regular teenager always thinks of a way to make money Eva looks at the 'gold watch' as a source of money instead of piece of jewellery that should mean a lot to her as it was given to her by

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