Model Answer: The author wants to run away because everyone is calling him names and will not let him join in their games.
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It feels as if pins
Are pricking my eyes,
My face is burning hot.
A firework is trying
To go off inside me.
My feet are glued to the spot.
My hands are rocks in my pockets.
I want to run away.
But my legs are rooted to the ground
Like trees. I have to stay
And listen
To everyone calling me names
And not letting me
Join in with their games.
Celia Warren: 'Left Out' from The Works, ed. John Foster (Macmillan, 2014)
Explain why the author wants 'to run away
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