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Final Project: Home and Migration 

Claire Hong 

 

This exhibit seeks to compare the migration experience told in the texts “The Sovereignty and Goodness of God”, “The Secret River”, and “Home Fire” by exploring how and why individuals migrate and what they gain or lose through the process. While all of these characters are relatively optimistic about building a new life in the place they migrate to, they soon face difficulties that are not what they expect, including being a captive of the Natives, attempting to build a home and determining how to interact with the Aboriginal people, being forced to work for ISIS and unable to return home. This project in particular focuses on the historical contexts of each of these migration experiences and the characters’ struggles of attempting to go back home or establish a new home. By analyzing these texts under a lens of migration and home, readers can interpret the significance of the characters’ actions related to their view of home and its relevance to society today.

A bit of background on these texts: 

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson was published in 1682 and is a narrative account of Rowlandson's personal experience being held captive by the Native Americans in colonial America. I focus on her journey of migration from her original home in London to a colonist in America, and her migration alongside the native people once she is captive. 

The Secret River by Kate Grenville was published in 2005 as a historical novel that has ties to her own family history. I focus on the main protagonists, Will and Sal, and their migration from London to the penal colony of Australia (more specifically New South Wales) as they learn to interact with the native people and settle in a foreign land.

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie was published in 2017 and is a novel that is loosely based on the play "Antigone" by Sophocles. I focus on the migration of the Pasha family from Pakistan to London and of Parvais' later journey from London to Syria as a recruit of ISIS.

KEY: 

Each of these texts originate in London and then spread out into their retrospective locations. It is advised to follow the order established in the “Waypoints” column and follow the same-colored dots: red for “Sovereignty and Goodness of God”, blue for “The Secret River”, and purple for “Home Fire”.

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