Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Literature & Language Essay.

Reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
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March 8-15
Let’s think about definitions of borders, portals, and frameworks.
How do you define the terms?
How do borders, portals, and frameworks apply to your life and experiences?
What do these terms mean in terms of Saeed and Nadia in the first four chapters? Examples?
Borders
a type of physical barrier that stops things or people from each side to the other
travel from one country to another, one state to another = crossing borders
Nationally: borders not as rigid as internationally, but still, we need to go through
divisions entering and exiting.
an imaginary line that separates one territory from another.
can be closed off from a gate, a wall, a door, or a sign.
each room in an apartment is separated by walls to create privacy
each supermarket is sectioned off to organize produce.
traffic cones can indicate construction ahead. We see this everyday on google map when we try to locate an address
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Portals
the entrance or exit of a place, country, or city.
can also be imaginary
may sound magical but actually everyday the internet provides us links and websites to click and browse
google searching for a camera and the next thing you end up in bestbuy.com
Frameworks
the specific period of time in which an event occurs.
Important telling historic events, the life of a person or the age of a city or a monument,
probably do not use the framework often but it does apply when I write,
brainstorming as infrastructure before crafting a piece of writing.
In terms of the reading on Exit West:
Borders-
people can not freely go where they want for the fear to be killed by the conflicts
To Saeed and Nadia, the curfew that the government imposes on citizens,
a divider that separates them from seeing each other.
Portals-
doors and windows closed by the people because they represent danger
can be shattered by bombing or shooting
a gateway, door, or entrance into another realm or destination
they imagine being in other cities, or it’s also possible that the telescope might be a gateway for them to enter the cities. .
Frameworks
the reading tells us what’s happening one day before or after an event happened, or if it's early or late in the day.
coming up with a plan to stay together as much as possible.