Home Fire themes

HOME FIRE PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR STUDENTS - by ilikepizaa

FAMILY RELATIONS:

Eamonn/Karamat

Parvaiz/Aneeka

Aneeka/Isma

Parvaiz/Isma

Pasha children and their father

Essay Question example: In what ways does Shamsie portrays family as conflictual?

Eamonn/Karamat:

Key moments

the call, chapter 8

meeting aneeka-karamat

Conflicts

aneeka, opinions

Conflicting relation due to the arrival of aneeka in eamonn life

use to be “perfect”

“Both in marketing t-shirt”

freedom of thoughts, emancipation from father influence

opening eye on his father’s actions

Quotes

“Both in marketing t-shirt”

“You stupid stupid boy. My stupid boy”

MEDIA:

News paper, gutter press

-external narrative

-use of violence (nick names)

-pressure

-public/institution’s opinion (racism)

effect on the reader —> pity, sadness

Socials

-influence of other characters (karamat)

-uncontrolled

-people and not journalist or institutions

effect on the reader -> anger, compassion

Quotes

“how many Parvaiz Pasha will it take for the government to wake up”

”#dontsullyoursoil”

”Pervy pasha”, “Knickers”

“used sex to brainwash him”

Key moment: Karamat’s Interview

Essay Question example: How does Shamsie use different voice in her novel ?

Example Answer:

I/ External voice -not the characters (Newspapers, Social media)

II/ Internal Narrative -from the characters (Religious Verses, Poetry)

III/ Writing /structure (Different POV/chronologies, Roman numbers, Omniscient narrative)

OTHER IMPORTANT THEMES:

Public/Private          How and to what extent does Kamila Shamsie explores the conflict between private and public ?

State Politics            How does Shamsie portray the notion of the state ?

FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS:

Betrayal (Isma to Aneeka, Parvaiz to Isma & Aneeka, Eamonn to Karamat, Karamat to Muslims)

Loyalty (Isma to her Family,  Parvaiz to his father,  Aneeka to Parvaiz)

Identity - british/muslim (Eamonn, Parvaiz, Karamat)

USEFUL LINKS:

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/home-fire

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