Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from Season of Migration to the North

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Village Along the Nile - This is the name the narrator gives to his town in the Sudan.

Khartoum - This location is the city where the narrator works and where another main character is from.

Cairo - In this location, Mustafa went to secondary school.

London, England - Mustafa arrived in this location when he was fifteen.

Nile River - This is the longest of its kind in the world and runs through the Sudan and the village that the tribe lives in.

Triangular Room - The key to this location was...
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