Exit West
This object is a gift that Saeed receives from his father that he uses to watch the night sky.
What is a telescope?
This is the most famous line of Hamlet.
What is "to be or not to be"?
The compass from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and the flea from "The Flea" are two examples of this literary device.
What is a conceit?
This object in the novel's title is used as a major symbol, representing an open-minded, honest way of looking at the world.
What is a view?
This is the central theme that connects all the short stories.
What are mother-daughter relationships?
This is who Saeed first tries to contact in Mykonos after he gets a local phone number.
Who is his father?
These two characters are old friends of Hamlet's who act as spies for Claudius and Gertrude.
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
This poem follows a cursed woman who is stuck in a tower and eventually dies a tragic death when she looks out the window.
What is "The Lady of Shalott"?
This is the city where George and Lucy meet.
What is Florence?
Not raising Caine, but this name of the chicken in "Buchi's Girls".
What is Kano?
These three locations are the places that Nadia and Saeed travel to through the magic doors.
What are Mykonos, London, and Marin?
"And now I'll do it"--but wait! This action of Claudius' is the reason why Hamlet does not kill him in Act 3.
What is praying?
These are the two characters to whom Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed.
Who are the Fair Youth and the Dark Lady?
Cecil Vyse repeatedly compares Lucy to this painter's works.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This narrative device is used in this closing passage from "Glory":
Looking at the ring, resentment and elation warred till one overcame the other and Glory made another decision" (Arimah 199).
What is a cliff-hanger?
This driest spot in the world is the place that Saeed tells Nadia he most wants to visit.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This device is the narrative purpose of Fortinbras.
What is a foil?
In "Goblin Market", Lizzie decides to save her sister by taking this item of currency out of her purse to buy fruit, which the goblins hurl back at her.
What is a silver penny?
These are the kind of flowers in the field where Lucy and George kiss for the first time.
What are violets?
This material was used to make the babies that Ogechi encounters on the bus.
What is raffia?
Saeed has this reaction when he sees that Nadia has brought home weed to their hovel in Marin.
What is laugh?
This is the true name of the "Mousetrap" play.
What is "The Murder of Gonzago"?
In "Ode on a Grecian Urn", the phrase "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an example of this literary device.
What is chiasmus?
This novel references George and Lucy's kiss within its pages, causing George to kiss Lucy again.
What is "Under a Loggia"?
This university in the American south is said to be where Ada from "Wild" will begin attending in the fall.
What is Emory?