The Émigrée

• Who wrote the Emigree?

  Carol Rumens
• Themes of The Emigree

  Identity, isolation and hope
• 'There once was a country'


  It is unrecognisable and not her country anymore. Fairytale like opening. Irony as it should be about her childhood.
• 'An impression of sunlight!'


  Sense of an illusion of hope using light as a symbol
• 'As time rolls it's tanks'


  Metaphor for military and actually tanks fighting in the streets and wearing down the country.
• 'Like a hollow doll' 


  Simile comparing the stage of education to childhood showing she was very young.
• Repition of white and light  

  Semantic field of hope and shows how always all hopes are on the new country
• 'I'm being dark in their free city'


  Speaking about racism and discrimination because she is different and they see her as a plague and unwelcome.