Exit West Analysis

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.

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

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

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, “You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you”, by Sonsyrea Tate relates to the novel Ethan Frome in that that main character, Ethan, cannot escape the life he had created. Ethan is a victim of his own demise because his fatal flaw is being too passive which prevents him from taking the necessary actions to improve his life. Despite all the times he attempted to leave, every night he would return home because a home is everyone's final destination at the end of a day. Homes gives people direction and a sense of belonging which is another reason why Ethan in the end cannot leave and start over.

Feelings of detachment while attempting to fit into a new environment leads to characters trying to develop a supportive home because it allows them to feel safe and connected to their surroundings. Characters experience feelings

Home./hōm/ noun- the place where one lives permanently. In The Glass Castle, a true memoir, by Jeannette Walls, talks about how the family moved around a lot. They were always moving because Rex Walls, their dad, constantly was losing his job or getting in trouble with the law. The kids identities were changed a lot throughout the story. Maureen, the youngest child in the family, changed the most. Her identity was shaped and made her into who she is today. Maureen identity goes from a small child, to sheltered sibling, to a christian, and finally to a codependent adult.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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