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The Pantry

This establishment represented success and the achievement of a dream on the part of an immigrant character in this novel.

Painkillers

A minor character uses these substances to cope with the pressures, loneliness, and dissatisfaction she feels in her personal and professional life.

Nora's Sharing Lunch With Jeremy in High School

This interaction between two main characters means a great deal to the character on the receiving end of the kindness. This gesture represents the empathy and care of one character.

Nora's Skirt at the Mosque

This object of clothing represents the unreasonable and damaging attitudes towards women, as Driss sees them, when his wife makes the family go to services.

Driss's Desert Cabin

This place at first represents solace for Nora in the wake of her father's death, but later it becomes a reminder of his flaws and all she did not know about him...

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