The Question and Answer section for Refugee Blues is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The line “Went down Harbour and stood upon the quay” serves as a symbol of the speaker's journey. The harbor symbolizes safety and refuge, but it also serves as a place where people leave their belongings behind and undertake dangerous journeys to...
Symbols: The passport symbolizes the arbitrariness of human-made systems. Here, it grants its owners the status of personhood within society at large. This means that the speaker's lack of a passport robs them of their personhood. Though they are...
That would be an example of aliteration.
