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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid: Several Doors for Different Destinations

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Reading: Please read chapters 5-8 of Exit West, more if you can, and continue to mark passages that connect to the themes of borders, portals, doors, and frames. Practice annotating as you read, capturing your thoughts, questions, reactions, and connections to the text in general.
Writing: Choose two moments/passages/examples or scenes from the book that you marked before close reading and writing an analysis of each passage. The steps that we went through in class are below:
Read the passage closely (again) making notes of what you notice and observe. You are looking for striking features, language, images, etc.
Write a clear sentence indicating your interpretation or assertion about the passage. In other words, what does this passage say to you in relation to the theme of doors, portals borders or frames?
Offer a context for the passage in a summary of no more than two sentences. Try to capture what the reader needs to know in terms of what is happening in this section so that your paragraph makes sense.
Cite the passage (using MLA format). https://owl(dot)purdue(dot)edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html
Write your analysis of the passage. Discuss the passage, write out your close reading, and guide the reader using specific details and to help them see what you see in the passage.
Do this with again with the second passage, or excerpt you've chosen.
Your writing does not have to be in the form of an essay.

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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Excerpt 1
"The night the militants came they were looking for people of a particular sect, and demanded to see ID cards, to check what sort of names everyone had, but fortunately for Saeed's father and Saeed and Nadia their names were not associated with the denomination being hunted. The neighbors upstairs were not so lucky: the husband was held down while his throat was cut, the wife and daughter were hauled out and away," (Chapter 5, p. 15).
Rationale
The passage comes after Nadia had gone to her apartment to salvage some belongings after the military raid. The military was dividing people into groups and executing a section of people. Saeed and Nadia's life has no peace because of the ongoing violence. Even Saeed's home is no longer a private place as the military invades it demanding to countercheck the names in their ID cards. The theme of borders is evident in this passage. The military is breaking borders of privacy and creating borders of division among the people. The military murders seed's neighbors living upstairs because their names resemble those of the hunted sect (p. 15). Nadia, Saeed, and his father survive the military's execution because their names do not betray them. The military strongly belief in affiliation borders, dividing the people of Nadia's town into the favorable and the unwanted groups, which are executed.
Among the things Nadia salvages immediately before the passage is her records, which she values but she cannot listen to them because it is a crime. The military would not spare her. This emphasizes the theme of borders and frames since everything was normal before the violence. Therefore, Hamid uses the military to build up on the themes of borders and frames. The people of Nadia's city are divided into groups by the military with affiliation barriers.
Excerpt 2
"But even as people poured into London, some were venturing out of it as w...
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