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- - - - Neocolonialism
        
        Neocolonialism is the continued exercise of political or economic influence over a society in the absence of formal political control. When this happens, foreign capital is used for exploitation, indigenous culture is affected, and education begins to change.
        
        This is the reason why Tambudzai is very narrow and adopts this proverb. According to western culture, employment and security comes first and when Tambudzai goes to her colonial education, while other women fight for their homeland she develops the idea of employment and security coming first. Additionally, Tambudzai's colonial education has made her overly educated, but at the same time under skilled. Tambu’s struggles to find a job serve as the aftermath of the kind of education and schooling that she received in pre-independence years.
- - - - Loss Of Identity
        
        Zadie Smith portrays Keisha Blake’s loyalty and disloyalty among the her peers and the people in her circle. She also depicts her struggle to remain loyal to her own identity. In page 247, it states "Natalie Blake was crazy busy with self-invention. She lost God so smoothly and painlessly she had to wonder what she’d ever meant by the word. She found politics and literature, music, cinema… She put her faith in these things, and she couldn’t understand why.” She changes her name to Natalie in order to escape her identity and starts adopting the culture that comes with the name "Natalie." Which indicates not only her struggle for a place in society, but a loss of her initial upbringing.
        
        Yeong-Hye seems to have lost something and although the book does not specifically state that she had lost something, it can be inferred. This is due to the fact of the society conventions and the way the people around her try to control her. Her breaking away and rebelling from eating meat and wanting to gain something, perhaps to keep her innocence and not lose that identity.
        
        Tambudzai also has a loss of identity when she refuses to accept the gift that her mother gave her-- doing everything she can to avoid her past.
- - - - Perhaps, in Nw, we learn that some people do not pick their unfortunate situations they are out in. It makes us ponder whether its some peoples fate to struggle, while others enjoy a much fortunate fate.
- - - - When Richard walks past what happens in the Plaza with the refugees he starts to think about about a place--a town where a system of tunnels are under the city and where people would be hiding. People hiding and trying to not be seen symbolizes the hardships there people face in the novel. It also symbolizes the fact that those who live comfortably are blind from the harsh conditions people live just to find basic human necessities.
        The man found in the lake in a way represents this idea of people being blind of the secrets that are under ground because as the man waved and pleaded for help. They saw the man, but did not see the trauma, hardships.
    - - Richards House symbolizes love and privilege. When most of the refugees were declined to stay, instead of accepting it, Richard welcomes these men-- accepting that he has privileges and will use it to help those who need it. Ultimately, he find bed, mattresses, and chairs for them In the beginning, the the house was very lonely and empty, instead of remaining the same, it was put to good use.
- - - - Natalie changing her name furthers this idea, perhaps her choosing to change her name was to feel like she was the sole author of her life
      - Kafka runs from home and deciding to run away from the fate that his father chose for him. Throughout hi journey we see him try to regain his life because he feels a sense of loss-- trying to be the sole author of his life.
- - - - The Great Derangement
        
        The Great Derangement is a nonfiction work penned by Amitav Ghosh–highlighting the limits of human vision and creative control. In the book, Ghosh talks about the uncanniness and the improbability of our current weather and its effect on literature. Ghosh also speaks on the Anthropocene: a period where human activities could impact the environment on such a grand scale that it constitutes change in geography, global warming, habitat loss, changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere, and animal extinctions. He further asks the question; why do authors struggle with incorporating climate change in their books.
        
        A central challenge of climate change, which Ghosh rightly points out, is that it resists our literary fiction that our ancestors found. As he states, it almost seems like in the field of literacy writing, climate change is well-nigh to extraterrestrials or interplanetary travel, thus it is ignored and shows a crisis of culture, and a failure of imagination. Ghosh says that in order to get past this, we need to be able to recognize, in which he asks the questions; how are we able to recognize different forms of disaster; from a freakish tornado in Delhi to sudden flash floods, hundred year storms, persistent droughts, and raging torrents pouring down from breached glacial lakes?
        
        The whole point of this is that, In Exit West, Hamid's purpose was probably to also reinforce this idea that the unrealistic weather that is happening in our climate is actually real and probable-- which now pushes against what we thought was plausible. Instead of sticking to a narrowness typical story, he includes climate change as real and another reason why people are forced to migrate. This means that we are acknowledging our current climate, which we have not been doing for a while.
        
        But the real reason for this is due to partitioning and culture; Western culture. This is because writers consistently write about individual adventures. Western cultures are focused and only concerned about their own advancement in life and how political policies impact them. This makes them narrow and difficult for them to think beyond that narrowness. Due to this, the Anthropocene began to present weather events of such improbability that mainstream novelists, (who focused on individualistic adventures) were not ready to write them due to its acceleration and ultimately; the Anthropocene resisting science fiction.