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Question 1

‘Paper that lets the light shine through, this could alter things’

Answer 1

• Seems positive, truth is shown
• Negative - we let something as fragile as paper control our life
• Links to life, hope, truth
• Angels and religious connotations
• ‘Alter’ - homophone, semantic field of religion
• Trying to give Christian readers a Muslim perspective to show the similarities between faiths
• She wants to ‘alter’ the perspectives of readers and different cultures

Question 2

‘Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines’

Answer 2

• Wars over borders, yet it is an illusion, they are pointless
• We live by them, not natural though
• Sun symbolises God, religion connecting communities