https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks en-us 2022-03-09 09:06:15 UTC 2024-12-17 06:51:47 UTC hello@padlet.com freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085675468 - 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]]> 2022-03-09 09:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085675468 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085675658 - 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]]> 2022-03-09 09:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085675658 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085676016 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) 


]]> 2022-03-09 09:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085676016 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085676382 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]]> 2022-03-09 09:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085676382 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085677565 - 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”]]> 2022-03-09 09:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2085677565 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089100685 - lets Samir into the theatre for free, usual for immigrants
- gets to ride the tube for free
- ex-coworker of Samir]]> 2022-03-10 20:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089100685 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089101523 - lives in Paris, speaks French
- comes over to London for the weekend
- offers Aqil a job in France ]]> 2022-03-10 20:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089101523 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089102515 Saeed Taji Farouky]]> 2022-03-10 20:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089102515 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089102940 2005]]> 2022-03-10 20:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089102940 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089103486 First-person narrator]]> 2022-03-10 20:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089103486 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089104109 London, mostly cinema]]> 2022-03-10 20:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089104109 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089256425 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.]]> 2022-03-10 22:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089256425 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089260823 Samir stole the cinema’s day’s profit to enable his sick mother from Egypt to fly to an english hospital.]]> 2022-03-10 22:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089260823 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089261922 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.]]> 2022-03-10 22:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089261922 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089262215 It is hard to earn money as an illegal immigrant, he feels like a criminal. For a short time he works at a tube.]]> 2022-03-10 22:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089262215 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089263932 Youssef gets him a new job at a café, were he works in the kitchen, since Samir is an illegal immigrant.]]> 2022-03-10 22:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089263932 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089264814 Aqil and Youssef want to leave to France and invite Samir to come along.]]> 2022-03-10 22:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089264814 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089265753 Samir is scared since he found at least some familiarity and safety in England and doesn’t speak French at all.]]> 2022-03-10 22:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089265753 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089266687 Samir gets into the tube and escapes into an imaginary story that glorifies his current life.]]> 2022-03-10 22:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089266687 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089267841 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

]]> 2022-03-10 22:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2089267841 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2097614802 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]]> 2022-03-16 08:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2097614802 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2097651119 The narrator’s experience of immigration is one of a hardship.

]]> 2022-03-16 09:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2097651119 wx8ycc67cd https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2099688042 - 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)]]> 2022-03-17 09:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2099688042 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2099740543 2022-03-17 09:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2099740543 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2099748793 2022-03-17 10:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2099748793 freyapfister https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2102395824 2022-03-18 18:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/freyapfister/Bookmarks/wish/2102395824