2-What types of conflict? Give quotes to support this
• Conflict of the mind-loneliness and sadness ‘I did not know I could feel this much sorrow without a body to bury’.
• Cultural conflict- doesn’t understand why there is a line he must wait for citizenship and to be accepted into the country ‘it was never my intention to jump this strange queue of which I had never heard’.
• Cultural conflict- doesn’t have a birth certificate. Doesn’t understand why we need a piece of paper (birth certificate) to prove that we exist. ‘What a country I come from…babies are born without anything in writing to prove that they exist.’
• War/fighting/blowing up- house blown up, family members dead. He is sad.
3-What caused these situations of conflict?
• The cause of this was due to Najaf feeling alone and isolated.
• These cultural conflicts are caused due to the difference between nations
4-Was the conflict resolved? If so how? If not, why not?
• Conflict is eventually resolved at the end of the book when he is finally reunited with his family and living in Australia.
• He still can see the difference between the cultures but accepts it because he is an accepting kind of