The title’s second word, Aḍuna (shadow), isn’t just a visual cue. Throughout the story, shadows appear as : the shadow of a coconut tree that refuses to bend, the shadow cast by the solar panels that covers the field. In literary analysis, this duality— light as knowledge, shadow as memory —has sparked vibrant classroom debates.

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