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The narrator’s experience of immigration is one of a hardship.

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Samir doesn’t feel like he belongs to England, but he can’t fly home to Egypt cause of the shame that he couldn’t save his mother

-strong sense of belonging to his country of origin and to his family
-friends represent a substitute family
-Samir is afraid to lose his substitute family, when they leave to Paris

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Samir is disappointed with his life.
-embarrassed for not having a better job
-feels like a criminal, always has to hide, sold a stolen stereo

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Samir (main character)
- illegal Immigrant from Cairo
- lives in London
- tries to earn some money to send his dead mother back for her funeral
- worked in a cinema/theatre, after in a tube and then in a cafe (in the kitchen)

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- loss of identity
- insecurity
- "I know I‘ll be alone if decide not to go with them. I couldn’t stand being alone." (p. 75, ll. 442-444)

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Faris let Samir into the cinema, even thought he can’t afford a ticket. He meets Youssef and they talk about what happened the last two weeks, at the back of the theatre.

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Samir’s dead mother
- lived in Cairo
- got sick
- Samir took her to a hospital in London
- Died after 17 Days in the hospital
- Samir doesn’t have enough money to send her dead body back

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- Youssef is Egyptian
- gets a long we’ll with Samir
- closest friend of Samir but still distant
- thanks to him, Samir got the job in the café
- wants to go to France

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Samir stole the cinema’s day’s profit to enable his sick mother from Egypt to fly to an english hospital.

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Samir’s mom died and he lost his job at the movie theatre. Doesn’t have enough money to send her body home for a funeral.

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It is hard to earn money as an illegal immigrant, he feels like a criminal. For a short time he works at a tube.

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Youssef gets him a new job at a café, were he works in the kitchen, since Samir is an illegal immigrant.

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Aqil and Youssef want to leave to France and invite Samir to come along.

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Samir is scared since he found at least some familiarity and safety in England and doesn’t speak French at all.

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Samir gets into the tube and escapes into an imaginary story that glorifies his current life.

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London, mostly cinema

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First-person narrator

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2005

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Saeed Taji Farouky

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- lets Samir into the theatre for free, usual for immigrants
- gets to ride the tube for free
- ex-coworker of Samir

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- immigrant from Iraq
- was part of the military in Iraq
- doctorate degree in physics
- wants to go to France to work for “rich Arabs in Holland Park”

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- lives in Paris, speaks French
- comes over to London for the weekend
- offers Aqil a job in France

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- works at theatre
- doesn’t speak English or Arabic well
- told the boss of Samir’s theft
- cause of him, Samir lost his job
- doesn’t like that Samir comes to the cinema