Exit west and home fire: terror of war, trauma of migration, violence and homelessness
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2021
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
This study aims to analyze Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Kamila Shamsie’s Home
Fire to explore terror of war, trauma of migration and violence by applying Jeffrey Charles
Alexander’s Trauma a Social Theory as research framework. The trauma theory is used to
justify evidences from the text as foundation and to make sense of the results. Traumatizing
factors are analyzed and traumatized characters are indicated in the analysis. Catastrophes of
war and migration lead to panic and create concerns, agony and pain; the intensity of these
tragic and painful emotions severely attack on human minds and leads towards piercing trauma.
This study focuses to explore traumatizing effects of war and migration: horror and terror
which put the migrants at constant sufferings and uneasiness. Refugee crisis, difficulties of
migration, war victims and problems of resettling are analyzed pertaining trauma theory. The
major traumatizing factors are terror of war, trauma of migration, homelessness and violence.
The findings of this study indicate that terror, sufferings and trauma is mental state. Trauma
depicts refugees’ sorrows and agony due to war, terrorists’ attacks, and loss of home and
family. This thesis attempts to unveil role of militants in destruction of peace.