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For those who escaped don't tend to find themselves in a place welcoming them with open arms. The end of pushed into the ghettos overcrowded with immigrants and have to keep traveling until the immigrant population is dispersed enough.

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Throughout the book in some of the earlier chapters there are situation in different places that all elude to the use of the special doors that take people different places.

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In Chapter 4, Saeed mentions the photographer who "turned the lights off in the city" for his picture and in chapter 5 they would loose power and water throughout their entire neighborhood and perhaps the whole city.

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The Cellphones are very important to the story. Saeed and Nadia communicated heavily through cellphone until the wifi and service is knocked out. The first thing they do when they get to Mykinos is get local numbers. Later in the story when they part ways they have trouble looking at each others social medias because they have a hard time facing the reality that they have built worlds of their own without each other,

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The entire book an allusion to the immigration problems around the world so it is an allusion to reality.

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"...and the wind tugged and pushed at their hair..." This personifies the wind in a way that makes it almost child like in its pulling on their hair.

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“The brave man motioned with the light of his phone, pulling the second man forward, like a needle-jawed angler-fish might, hunting in the inky depths”(66)

The brave man that is introduced on page 66, motions to the second man that emerges from a black door to come towards him. The author compares his phone light to a “needle-jawed angler-fish” to describe his phone acting like the only source of light in the night or the “inky depths”.

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"In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was."(110)

All the migrants were strangers to each other and the land they were in and knew they had to look out for each other.

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Nationalism and the dangers associated with it. 

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Nationalism and the dangers associated with it. 

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The two main characters embody nationalism in different ways. Saeed is very prideful of his country even when he migrates he only associates himself with those from his country and eventually those of his religion. While Nadia is the opposite. She doesn't feel welcomed by those of her country and is able to make friend with those like her, those who feel they don't belong. When she migrates she takes the opportunity to meet those who also left and understand them.

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Conflict between the Migrants and Nativists

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Conflict between the Migrants and Nativists

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Whenever they militants and the government of the main characters country started fighting, the existence of spacial passageways only known as 'doors' became known to us, and because of these doors, many people who didn't like the situation they were in, were able to migrate to different countries very easily, and because of the many doors spread throughout the world, many migrants came to countries and eventually the natives of those countries started getting angry because they believed they didn't belong there, the most obvious example of this came from London, where the natives there definitely didn't like the fact that migrants were able to move to their country without any kind of background check or anything like that, so eventually they deployed the police and swat teams to force them into immigrant camps, and eventually were forced to do labor so they could have the option to live in small, functioning houses.

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This theme is looming over the whole book the whole time. The narrator constantly informs the reader when people will die early on in the novel. With mortality come the preciousness of a life. This is shown as Saeed and Nadia migrate.

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"It has been said that depression is the failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself."(217)

This was an issue our two main characters and the rest of the immigrants dealt with through their entire journal. Even though Saeed and Nadia found a way through, not everyone managed it.

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This theme appears all throughout the novel. Migration in this book is all about the freedoms of leaving a familiar setting and exploring. For some in the book migration frees them while others don't migrate in fear of not being accepted.

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Communication by cell phone is an important part of the book. The characters constantly rely on their phones to stay in contact and to feel connected to one another. Every time Saeed and Nadia move places they buy contact information.

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"... and when Nadia squatted down beside a scraggly bush and bade [Saeed] squat down as well, and there concealed tried to kiss him under the open sky, he turned his face away angrily, and then immediately apologized, and placed his cheek against hers, and she tried to relax against him, cheek to bearded cheek, but she was surprised, because what she thought had glimpsed in him that moment was bitterness, and she had never seen bitterness in him before, not in all these months, not for one second, even when his mother had died, then he had been mournful, yes, depressed, but not bitter, not as though something was corroding his insides."(107)

This quote shows that Saeed was beginning to change after he had to leave his father, and somehow was becoming bitter even though they were in a new and safe place. It represents the start of evolution for Saeed.

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"So in these several ways these three people sharing this one apartment splashed and intersected with each other across varied and multiple streams of time" (81)

Saeed, Saeeds Father, and Nadia encountered day to day objects that reminded them of the one they love/loved and that everything intertwined across multiple streams of time.

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"...and what he did not say was that he had come to that point in a parent"s life when, if a flood arrives, one knows one must let go of one's child, contrary to all instincts one had when one was younger, because holding on cone no longer offer the child protection, it can only pull the down child, and threaten them with drowning, for the child is now stronger than the parent..."(96)

This quote defines the father's character arc. He comes to terms with needing to let Saeed go and that he would be staying in the city when Saeed and Nadia leave.

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The father figure would always try to keep Saeed close and protect him until the militant occupation becomes too much and he realizes Saeed and Nadia have to leave. Although, he would not come along with them. Along with his departed wife, his past is in the city and the future doesn't offer much to him.

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The the lemon tree is kind of a mystery to us, but it seems to symbolize the city or everyone's normal lives in the city. The lemon tree is dead and only clung to by a few leaves. Just like the city and the bits of life being cluing to by the citizens, like Saeed's father.

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Nadia started off reserved and wished to remain distant from people, but eventually she fights against the social norms. She wears a black robe to send a message to those who understand her culture. She and Saeed travel and bond over their experiences. She and Seed are opposites over social issues.

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...leaving lines in the smoothness like those of expired soap bubbles blown by a parent for a child.

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- a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.
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Saeed has been kind and quick to smile. He is very religious and participates in traditional society norms. He goes to church and prays. Cherishes his connection to his family. He has an inability to grieve without hurting others. He enjoys the stars and looking up at the night sky.

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While Saeed and Nadia are moving between migrant camps there is a stark difference. In Greece the migrants there bartered with one another but in England the houses formed councils among the residents and of the different houses. It may be that they are in a better country so people have become content on where they are instead of wanting to escape to a better country.

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These doorways are the way that Nadia and Saeed travel from place to place. The doors are heavily guarded and regulated by militants and those in power. These doorways are a replacement for the long and treacherous journey that migrants have to go through when escaping from their countries.

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‘Why would we want to move?' she said.
'To be among our own kind,' Saeed answered.
'What makes them our kind?'
'They’re from our country.'
'From the country we used to be from.'
'Yes.' Saeed tried not to sound annoyed.
'We’ve left that place.'
'That doesn’t mean we have no connection.'
'They’re not like me.'
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This is an insight on  Saeed's view on migration. This is the first sign of trouble for Nadia and Saeed's  relationship. Their views on migration and about the others who migrated is a problem that complicates their relationship.

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...Others blamed other immigrants, and began to move, in the manner of cards dealt from a shuffled deck during the course of a game

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Saeed a very soft and caring man especially to Nadia lashes out and is very harsh to her. This catches both Nadia and the reader off guard at the sudden change in character.

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Nadia realizes that Saeed is no longer the person she feel in love with. The stress and the new experiences have caused Saeed to change. In an argument between one another Nadia has the sudden dreadful realization that they are no longer compatible.

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Nadia remembers a time when she and a singer hook up for a bit. She remembers this while she and Saeed are at her place for the first time. I believe that Hamid added this moment to show want Nadia is like in relationships or that she wants to change the way she does relationships.

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"To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you."(165)

This quote depicts the way Saeed feels about Nadia and probably the way Nadia feels about Saeed. They both resist, but know their separation is inevitable.

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At first Nadia and Saeed were able to love each other immensely and able to enjoy each others presence more often, but whenever they had to live together after all the fighting between the militants and the government, they both slowly started annoying each other more and more, and when both of them noticed that they both started using rude language towards each other, they made a promise that they will make an effort to stop using rude language so they can eventually become more fond of each other like they used to, and eventually their relationship becomes sibling-like, where they get annoyed occasionally but they still care for each other.

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"The end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things," (202)

This perfectly describes Saeed and Nadia's relationship toward the end of the book. After they part ways they only think of the good times and the ways they made each other feel good.

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Saeed's father explained to Saeed that he would not be leaving with them explaining that his mother was still there with him and didn't want to leave her alone. Saeed begrudgingly agrees to leave him behind.

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"Young men pray for different things, of course, but some men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised him."( 87)

This illustrates how Saeed would pray because he felt it connected him with his mother and father long after their passing. He wished to share this feeling with Nadia, but she didn't view preying in the same way he did.

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Conflict between the Militants and the Government of Nadia's and Saeed's Country

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Conflict between the Militants and the Government of Nadia's and Saeed's Country

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The conflict between the Militants and the Government started in chapter 2 of Exit West and presumably their goal was to just take over the country to gain land, and of course the government didn't want this so they fought back against the Militants, which cost many civilians to lose their lives and their homes and most commonly their way of life, all the business had to close down because of the fighting and no one was able to gain money, and because of this the people there used doors. Eventually the Militants were able to control over Saeed's city, it wasn't made clear whether they conquered the country or whether they were only going for the region.

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The imagery of escaping westward shows their desperation to get away form the conflict of their home, but it follows them all the way from their nameless country in the Middle East, to Greece, to London, then all the way to California, USA.

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The two main characters Saeed and Nadia have to ask themselves the toughest question a couple could ask. Are they still in love with each other or do they just enjoy each other.

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The characters along with the rest of the migrants attempts to escape seemingly never end. The keep going further and further west but can't seem to make it out. The main characters even go so far as San Francisco, California to escape the problems of a life of an immigrant. Many other people weren't so lucky, they would get stuck somewhere, or go back to where they escaped from, or killed along the way.

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"One night the fox encountered a soiled diaper, pulled it out of the trash and sniffed at it, as if wondering what it was, and then dragged it around the garden, fouling the grass, changing course again and again, like a pet dog with a toy, or a bear with an unfortunate hunter in its maw, in any case moving with both design and unpredictable wildness, and when it was done the diaper lay in shreds."

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