Season of Migration

I thought that the title of the novel was kind of interesting because it is actually part of the story that Mustafa tells the narrator. Mustafa makes references to the north as meaning a lot more than just a direction on the compass. He sees it as an ideology. He states in the story that, "in her eyes I was a symbol of all her hankerings. I am south that yearns for the North and the ice" (24). This shows some competition between the north and south. Though Mustafa eventually goes to Sudan he never brings himself to fully separate from the North. This can be seen when the narrator sees Mustafa's study, after his death, and finds an actual shrine to the North, that I think is like a room full of books and pictures and stuff. Anyways the significance of the shrine is that is shows how Mustafa still loved and was interested by the North, even though he couldn't actually live there.