Desolation as a fort
After Anjum leaves Khwaabgah to live in a graveyard, she thinks she would have been scared usually. She was a hijra who were not only already ostracized from society, but also the location should have been spooky enough. There were drug addicts loitering around as well as homeless people, but her traumatized mind didn’t let her feel the danger. Thus, her desolation became a fort where she was protected from everything.
Zainab as Mouse
When Zainab is found by Anjum on the steps of Jama Masjid, she is a little creature who barely weighted. While she bawled, she looked utterly vulnerable which had Anjum call her as a mouse.
Anjum’s cargo
When Zainab grew up enough to understand stories, Anjum began to tell her about the days of hardships she faced in an attempt to engrave her influence on Zainab’s conscious. She was using Zainab as a medium to collect her stories and keep them on record. Thus, she was using the stories as a cargo which she unloaded to Zaianb to bear.
Anjum and Saddam as a pair of astronauts
Anjum and Saddam are called as a pair of astronauts, as both of them had absolutely nothing to do outside the graveyard where they lived. To avoid being sucked into a cheeriness which none could actually reciprocate, they wandered here and there in the graveyard, without purpose, as if they were separated from the Earth, where everything was happening.
Violence as egg yolk
Violent tendencies in normal people is compared to egg yolk in a boiled egg. On outside, just like the surface of the egg everything appears normal and smooth, without a bump, but the inside holds a runny yolk which when runs out creates a mess that symbolizes chaos.
