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Global Experience, Migration and refugee experiences, exploring the…

- - - - Her behavior is deemed as a mental illness and is misinterpreted, misunderstood and completely denied by her family.
        
        This reflects how in certain cultures or environments, change and different perspectives can be damaging for one's personal wellbeing.
        
        All of this leads to her alienating herself, and eventually being completely alone. A node to how individuals can be neglected when defying norms.
      - Finding freedom from connecting with nature, eventually turning herself into a tree. The metamorphosis symbolizes her neglectful human environment and finding peace with nature.
      - Silence and resilience throughout the story show her constant refusal to justify her actions and eventually not have to prove anything to anyone.
- - - - Contrasting life experiences in London and West Africa
        
        Throughout the story there is differences between the social and societal aspects between the narrator and Tracey. These contrasts highlight how systemic inequality creates unfair cycles
    - - Memory also plays an important role, the past memories between the two characters develops into a rift between them, influencing their perception and choices as friends.
- - - - Lives on the edge of society, and this shows when people ignore her cries for help and her advocation for change
  - - - Her position as an outcast allows her to easier grasp the societal norms and challenge them without question
- - - - Contrast of the systemic failures in government and institutions addressing the refugee crisis.
- - - - Tensions between presumed fate and individual choice. Fear of unfulfillment of a destined "prophecy" for Kafka.
        This theme represents the human belief of personal goals vs the inevitability of destiny.
    - - Nature also has an important role throughout the story, deepening the connection between subconscious connections of nature and inner spirituality along the character's journey
        
        Kafka challenges the meaning of his life, his meaning, his prophecy and the challenges faced against him allow for the reader to really delve into the changes that he faced that created the final Kafka that we see at the end of the story, it challenges narratives and reflects on the complexity of human life.