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How does each character’s social location influence the character’s experiences and how they interpret events throughout the text?

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How does each character’s social location influence the character’s experiences and how they interpret events throughout the text?

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Farooq's social location influences his experiences and interpretation of events by giving him a sense of responsibility he feels he has to cater to for his community. He honestly thinks that he is doing others a favor by being a terrorist, and what he has been through supports this. He also thinks that by killing Parvaiz, he is getting rid of a traitor.

Isma, on the other hand, is weary of her environment because of how many obstacles she has come across due to her religion. She approaches each situation with trepidation and interprets everything through a lens of suspicion and caution. She does, however, evoke the essence of a mature adult because of how much she has been through and how much responsibility she has been forced to take on.

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3. Farooq, being an ISIS recruiter, has power and influence over Parvaiz, who is vulnerable and desperate to find a place to belong. Farooq takes advantage of Parvaiz's state of defenselessness, letting him use the young boy for ulterior motives. However, Farooq is still operating outside of the law, which could backfire on him easily.

Isma is a different story; she encounters many instances of oppression due to her Muslim identity, as well as having standards set by her family to meet, which can be extremely stifling. However, being brought up in a middle-class environment gave Isma the ability to get an education and other opportunities.

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2. Farooq is a British Muslim Pakistani from the working-class who is a member of ISIS. He feels disconnected from mainstream society, which may be a reason that he is susceptible to extremist ideas. He is married and has children, and he does what he does in an effort to protect his family, although not much is known about his family. Isma is an unmarried female British Pakistani Muslim who is a graduate student in the US and has experienced discrimination due to her Muslim identity. She had a middle-class upbringing. Isma comes from a traditional family structure, which values obedience and respect for authority. She also struggles with the demands of her personal religion, and those of the secular world around her.

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1. The larger social context and setting in which the story takes place in contemporary London, UK. The experiences of a British Pakistani Muslim family who are struggling to reconcile their cultural and religious identity with their Western lives are explored in this novel. The particular society they are dealing with has issues with Islamophobia and the immigrant experience.

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In terms of social location, Isma is a British-Pakistani woman of the Muslim faith. She is under constant surveillance and suspicion because of her religion, which poses obstacles for her to face. She is from the middle-class, which gives her some opportunities such as traveling for education.

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Isma and Farooq

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In terms of social location, Farooq is a member of the British-Pakistani community in the working-class. he does not have much power over anyone other than Parvaiz, who he ends up manipulating.

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Homefire is a rendering of Sophocles' Antigone that tells the story of the Pasha family and the tragedy that befalls them when, in hopes of finding a place to belong, the youngest brother of the family, Parvaiz, joins ISIS and uncovers past wounds of his father, who did the same. Parvaiz has a twin sister, Aneeka, and older sister, Isma, who are both studying and planning on moving out of their family home. Isma is moving to America to study, which contributes to Parvaiz's feelings of abandonment and pushes him into the arms of Farooq, an ISIS recruiter who grooms Parvaiz to joining ISIS after telling him heroic stories of his father's time in ISIS . After there for months, Parvaiz decides he wants to go back home. He is unfortunately killed as he is trying to return home when Karamat puts a rule in place that British citizens who are disloyal and commit betrayal are unable to be buried on British soil.

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Kamila Shamsie. Home Fire. Riverhead Books, 2018.

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Why is this pattern that you are observing important? What does it reveal about the world? What bearing does it have on the lives of the characters you analyzed, and people like them in the real world?

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Why is this pattern that you are observing important? What does it reveal about the world? What bearing does it have on the lives of the characters you analyzed, and people like them in the real world?

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The observable pattern is important because it reveals that people will do what they can with what the world gives them. Both of these characters are shown to assess their situations differently and deal with them accordingly. Based on the cards each person has been dealt, it really depends on the person and how they will react to it. Farooq is seen to go awry in reaction to the world he has witnessed when he joins a jihadist group. Isma is seen to try earnestly to break past the boundaries that others constantly try to impose upon her. This pattern reveals a strong encouragement of free will.

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The temporal setting of "Home Fire" by Kamila Shamsie is contemporary. The novel takes place in the present day, with references to current events such as the war in Syria and the rise of ISIS. The story is set in various locations, including London, Massachusetts, and Istanbul, and the narrative unfolds over the course of several months. The novel was published in 2017, and its temporal setting reflects the political and social issues of the time, particularly those related to the experiences of Muslims in the West and the global refugee crisis.

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The US (western massachussetts) is where Isma goes to get her education. London, England is where the Pasha family primarily presides. Raqqa, Syria is where Parvaiz lives after he is recruited into ISIS and taken there for training. Istanbul, Turkey is where Parvaiz dies when he is trying to get back home.

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This novel is set in the West and Middle East in a contemporary time. It takes place post 9/11, when technology has developed to facilitate the camera phone, online posts, skype, and other facets of media. The Muslim identity of many characters in the book allows conversation about religious freedom, citizenship, and perceptions around gender and age. Other issues such as immigration and belonging are also explored.