Homework

Birdsong extract:
Inside, the house was both smaller and larger than it looked. It had no rooms of intimidating granduer no gilt ball rooms with dripping chandeliers, yet it had unexpected spaces and coridoors that disclosed new corners with steps down into the gardens; there were small salons equipped with writing desks and tapestry covered chairs that opened inwards from unregarded passageways. Even from the end of the lawn it was difficult to see how the rooms and coridoors were fitted into the placid rectangles of stone. Throughout the building the floors made distinctive sounds beneath the press of feet, so that it with its closed angles and echoing air the house was always a place of unseen footsteps.                                                                                                                                         
The house is described as having 'no rooms of intimidating grandeur' or 'dripping chandeliers' which could indicate that even though the family is rich they don't decorate their rooms exessively.
It says there is 'unexpected spaces' which could show that everything is not what it seems and also that the people who inhabit the house are also not what they seem, for example Madame Azaire is not what she seems.
The extract also says that there are 'unregarded passageways' which means there are so many passageways in the house that many are unused and not even looked at, this could show that rich families have too much when the poor people have so little.
It says there is an 'echoing air in the house' which could mean that there is a spooky atmosphere and the house could often be empty.
'Unseen footsteps' could foreshadow a new person coming into the house (Stephen) or a baby.