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An 8 page essay that discusses the major themes and writing style of Iraqi novelist Betool Khedairi in her novel Sky So Close. In everyday life, most people do not generally consider the impact of the political on their lives. However, for the Iraqi girl who is the protagonist of Betool Khedairi's coming-of-age story A Sky So Close, the political is an omnipresent factor that impacts her life on numerous levels. For example, a prominent theme in the novel is the tension between the young protagonist's Iraqi father and British mother, which mirrors the conflict between her Iraqi homeland and the West. As this primary conflict suggests there is much in this novel that is metaphorical, so that the author is able to convey meaning on multiple levels. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Khedairis coming-of-age story A Sky So Close, the political is an omnipresent factor that impacts her life on numerous levels. For example, a prominent theme in the novel is
the tension between the young protagonists Iraqi father and British mother, which mirrors the conflict between her Iraqi homeland and the West. As this primary conflict suggests there is much
in this novel that is metaphorical, so that the author is able to convey meaning on multiple levels. The novel opens in the narrators early childhood, which takes place
in the village of Zanfraniya just outside of Baghdad. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, is the target of the cultural conflict that occurs between her parents. Her British
mother inculcates all of the negative attitudes held by the West toward the East. She wants to send the girl to the School of Music and Ballet and prohibits
her from playing with the poor shoeless children from nearby homes. The girl feels close to her Iraqi father and seems to be addressing her memoirs to him personally, as
he is the "you" of the account. As this suggests, from the beginning of the novel, the girl feels trapped between an East/West conflict. In accordance with this metaphor,
from the beginning of the novel, the narrators mother expresses her basic disapproval of her daughter. This is why she wants the girl to attend the Ballet school. The narrator
says, "Mummy told me--Im sorry--I meant "my mother" -- told me that they would teach me how to walk, how to sit, how to dance" (Khedairi 3). The implication is
that the mother obviously sees the girl as ungraceful and in need of such instruction. This is the first of several of several life transitions that occur throughout the narrative
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