Genre
Autobiography
Setting and Context
Set in a Syrian refugee camp in 2016 (The Moria Refugee Camp, Lesbos, Greece)
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
The tone is dispassionate, and the mood is buoyant.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is Mina, and the antagonists are her local people at home.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between Mina and her people at home because they stigmatize her due to her identity status.
Climax
The climax comes when Mina marries Francine, and they live happily as a couple.
Foreshadowing
The hostility towards her in her home country foreshadows Mina's stay in America
Understatement
n/a
Allusions
The story alludes to the acknowledgment of the LGBTQ community in the western world.
Imagery
The refugee camp description in Moria, Lesbos shows images of suffering and horror because people are on the verge of dying due to inadequate necessities.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the Mytilene International Airport is depicted as classy, but it offers substandard services in reality.
Parallelism
There is a parallelism between hatred towards transgender people and the forceful rules requiring women to wear hijabs.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Hijab is a metonymy for Muslim culture.
Personification
n/a
