The book Exit West was
an interesting read for me. When I first began to read it, I was confused on what
was happening, when the two main characters of the book were looking for doors to
be able to travel to go to a different place. “…Rumors had begun to circulate
of doors that could take you elsewhere, often to places far away, well removed
from this death trap of a country…A normal door, they said, could become a
special door, and it could happen without warning, to any door at all.” This book reminded me of the
Chronicles of Narnia, where they would go through the wardrobe and they would
be in Narnia.
I think that it would be cool to be able to have a door appear
and take people to a new place, free of danger. In the book it talked about how
refugees were being bombed in their homes and how they would be sleeping on the
streets. “Refugees had occupied many of the open places in the city, pitching
tents in the greenbelts between roads, erecting lean-tos next to the boundary
walls of houses, sleeping rough on sidewalks and in the margins of streets.
Some seemed to be trying to re-create the rhythms of a normal life, as though
it were completely natural to be residing, a family of four, under a sheet of
plastic propped up with branches and a few chipped bricks…Others didn’t move at
all: stunned, maybe, or resting. Possibly dying.” (2)
It is sad to think about
how these people are just trying to flee from danger and people want nothing to
do with them. This may be just a book, but stuff like this happens in the real
world today. People are trying to find safety, and some end up dead on the journey
to freedom. “IOM said at least 631 people have died trying to reach Spain by
sea since the start of 2018, and 2,075 migrants have died at sea”