Survivors carry exile as an unshakeable embodied mark of guilt and trauma.

Evidence

For those who live, exile is like a tattoo. It is branded on the bodies of survivors like an unshakeable guilt, and stains their minds for as long as they walk this earth. … Some, like Fatima, have crossed that ocean. They wear the war and the wages of survival on their skin, like a tattoo only visible to those who know them well, or those who must live with what they have endured, and only partly survived. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 652

Categorization

• BMF: The ‘exile as tattoo worn on skin’ image of survivors’ shame evokes the bodily-marked outcasts in Parable of the Sower’s world, though the resonance is thematic rather than a specific plot device.