Exit West Analysis

In the novel “Inside out & Back Again” written by Thanhha Lai , The main character Ha flees her home due to war. Her and her family were looking for a new home trying to start a new life. Although it wasn’t easy for her to start a new life she had to learn to overcome many challenges. In the novel Ha reveals that her life is related to the refugee life even though it was unexpected. When refugees flee their home, it affects them when they leave and find a new home, it also involves affecting them when their life is turned inside out,and it demonstrates why they relate to the refugee experience.

The most influential reading we read was “The Last Stop.” While reading that story I got a clear understanding of how to write in a very descriptive way. When he described the funeral home director Mr Deaver . It helped me to understand what I should explain when I described Mrs Slama. I learned to be specific and very detailed. Another thing I also learned and noticed from the reading what his description of the funeral home itself. In the beginning of the reading he talks about walking up to the mortuary and it reminding him of a church and also an apartment complex. When writing my profile I tried to be a descriptive as possible. I talked about what I saw when I walked into the school and the colors I noticed on the walls of the hallways.

The home as a place of comfort does not exist for the narrator; companionship with her husband is lost. Her only real conversations occur on paper, as no one else speaks to her of anything other than her condition. She is stripped of her role as a wife, robbed of her role as a mother, and is reduced to an object of her husband's.

The novel begins with a journey, both physical and emotional; the Brennans are physically moving houses and towns, but also moving into new, unfamiliar territory. The leaving of ‘home’ is synonymous with the leaving of what id known, familiar and comfortable, in a literal and metaphorical sense.

What does the word home mean? In the essay “On Going Home” by Didion she recreates her feelings and thoughts about her meaning of home. Family is a big part of one’s life and important one at that and Didion uses it as the center of her work. The work itself is about re- defining what home truly is.

Firstly, Saroo experiences a lack of identity and belonging. Saroo came from a very loving family in India. He always felt like he belonged, but that all changed when he was adopted by fair skinned parents, being 5 and dark skinned completely different to his family would be confusing. At some points frustrating, Saroo questioned whether he belonged or not, “I did I become the Saroo who used to live on the streets Calcutta rather than just Saroo, mostly wanted to be just Saroo.” This evidently shows that not just Saroo noticed something different about his home life, this put Saroo under a llot of stress. Sarro has had multiple troubles with wanting to find his family, Saroo’s peers really pushed him in the right direction to weather finding

Since I moved to Toronto, I’ve been getting a lot of questions like “where are you from?” or “where is home?”. I guess the question is only natural since Toronto is a big city where people from all over the world gather. Whenever I get such questions, I tell them that it’s hard to say since I’ve stayed in multiple places and had countless places that felt like they were home and not. To me home has always changed, home was always changing based on the circumstances, or the chance to find a better place. As much as I would have wanted to feel a ‘rootedness’ in one place by staying put, I realized later on that just because I stay there for a long time does not necessarily mean home. Country to country, province to province, city to city, explaining

The quote, “Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be in exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room” (Darwish) mirrors the theme of exile in the novel The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. The novel takes place in a time period in Afghanistan where Shia and Sunni muslims had completely different social status’. The main character Amir was a Sunni muslim, or a Pashtun. His best friend, and also his servant Hassan was a Shia, or a Hazara. Hassan is shunned by all of society because he is a Hazara and treated much differently than his friend Amir. The theme of exile is repeated throughout the book as Hassan is exiled by his society and by Amir, and it shows how exile can take place under any circumstance, not just geographically.

I think the term “home” means a place where family members lived together. Everyone in the family supports each other, care about each other, respect each other and everyone gone through hard times together. The home may not be big, but it is cozy, it may not be very fancy, but it is happy to live there. This idea of home applies to the text “Fire From the Rock” By Sharon M. Draper very well. Sylvia and her family lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, during segregation. Sylvia’s neighbor, Mr. Crandall, treated black people badly. Once, Sylvia’s little sister, Donna Jean was bitten by one of Mr. Crandall’s dogs purposely. The other time when Sylvia’s brother, Gary was beaten by Mr. Crandall’s kids because Gary wanted fairness for the black people. Also when everyone in the town knew that Sylvia was one of the black students to attend Central High School, Sylvia faced more pressure and troubles from the white people. But no matter what happen to Sylvia and her family, they always supports each other and care about each other, everyone in the family stood together and gone through hard times together.

The Oscar nominee movie, Lion, is a film based on home and identity. The film is about a boy who gets lost from his birth home and family and later on during his life he becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth family. Throughout the movie, they show us how much reconnecting with his real family means to Saroo, yet being close and connected with his adoptive parents is also very important to him. During the movie, Saroo states “Do you have any idea what it’s like knowing my real brother and mother spending every day of their lives looking for me? Huh? How every day my real brother screams my name? Can you imagine the pain they must be in not knowing where I am?” After Saroo gets frustrated with his friends about not knowing where his own real family is, he spends two years of his life in secrecy searching most of India on Google Earth to find where

The majority of texts aim to expose the reader to alternative versions of the world they live in and with these, bring new ideas to ponder. The television drama East West 101, produced by Steve Knapmen and Kris Wyld, along with the autobiographies of Warren Fellows and Ahn Do have exposed me, as a reader, to new ideas and versions of the world. These texts have used various conventions such as language, characterisation and setting to present these unfamiliar ideas.

That is not completely true, however. A teenager can be used as a great example of this. Most teenagers don’t get along with their parents because of their desire to be free. This is a stereotype however, meaning not all teenagers feel this way. This leads to my point, which is that home varies from person to person even though some can be alike most are different.

Home can be described in many meanings. In both short stories of “Eveline” by James Joyce and “Soldier’s Home” by Earnest Hemingway, it defined home in many similar and opposite ways against one another. Since both authors used different ways to uncover the protagonist’s story, they both resulted in different interpretations of “Home.” Both stories revolved around family affairs so both the protagonist’s mother and father played a major role in the story but they also shared similarities throughout the story. However, both protagonists were caught in different situations that drove them on deciding to stay or leave home.

One knows that a place is their home when they are comfortable enough to present a true description of themselves, because they know that they will receive definitive acceptance. It is a sanctuary for them where they can do anything they please and not be judged afterwards. It is where one can share the absurdity of their day without any remorse or repercussions. The reason why people say that a person only has one true home is because one will

Even more stifling to his poetic creativity is his home where Amanda, prompted by her motherly solicitude and her fear for the family’s sole source of income, is the major obstacle to his creative concentration. Home is more like a cage as oppressive as the warehouse by Amanda’s austere parental control and over-protectiveness (Ng). During meals, she insists that he listen to