Open Your Arms

- The central theme of the novel "Open Your Arms" is strangeness, feelings of alienation, isolation, the crisis of non-conformity, alienation, and disharmony with the dominant culture of the society, lack of self-confidence, and, in general, the suffering and torture of alienation and discontinuity. - The story's main character is an exiled immigrant poet who, having lost his native language and culture, diligently strives to replace it with the language and culture of the host society. - The central female character of the story is a psychology student who comes from a strongly religious family and adheres to the principles of Catholic Christianity; she has a problem with society's general instrumentalist view of women, free sexual relations, current immorality in this field, and as a result, has a crisis of making relationship and satisfying her sexuality. - This novel is actually a human drama and the story of erotic love between two strangers and a true celebration of multiculturalism and mature sexuality. - The novel's structure, the locations of events, and the existence of some characters and objects all convey the story's central theme in a dramatic, suspenseful, and sometimes metaphoric way.