The Coconut Children vocabulary builder

The streets bathed in the sunshine shamelessly baring their scars. This is an example of

Social process which pushes people to the edge of society where they feel excluded.

The state of being caught between two different cultures.

Descriptions which create strong, gut-level emotional responses in readers by appealing to physical sensations and primal emotions.

Referring to the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked, harmed, or damaged, either physically or emotionally.

When people from one culture adopt the ways, beliefs, and behaviours of another culture, sometimes losing parts of their original cultural identity along the way.

When people are forced to leave their homes or countries (like refugees) or

when one cultural group is pushed out of an area by another group.

Refers to being in-between or at a threshold—not quite in one state and not quite in another.

A group of people who have spread or been scattered from their original homeland to different places around the world.

What literary device involves using objects, colors, characters, or events to represent abstract ideas or qualities beyond their literal meaning