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EXIT WEST
In this text, I try to understand from the title of the book "Exit West" which theme is dealt by the main character and what suggests at the reader.
In the specific case, "Exit West" might be a book that tells what the consequences are in choosing to go to the West.
It could also be the symbol of a metaphor of an individual's life, such as being at a juncture between roads you don’t know.
In this sense, the title suggests me a protagonist who chooses to leave everything and opts, perhaps by mistake, a road to the West, where he finds himself confronted with a new world he would never have imagined in his reality.
These choices can be difficult, but every day someone is forced to leave the life he knows, his friends, the parents, because of war, violence and abuse.
Sometimes it is a right choice that brings good results, sometimes the destiny chosen is the wrong one and the results become unexpected and the journey is uncertain.