In chapter 5 of The Deep by R.Solomon, there is emphasis showing how being in the sea is prison-like for Yetu. “She needed to go closer to the surface yet if she wanted to escape her people entirely (p.68)”, she is painted as a prisoner escapee trying to flee law enforcement (her fellow waijinru’s). This quote provoked for me to think of the ocean as a restraint (negative) rather than a museum of history (positive) because Yetu has actively showed her disdain for being in the sea with her people. The only way to escape because they will find her in the darkest parts of the ocean is to breach the border between land and sea, where no waijinru would dare to go. Yetu having to leave to uncharted and potentially dangerous territory to escape her life as a Historian reminds me similarly of an immigrant needing to cross a border to a new unknown land trying to escape their past and rebuilding from scratch a life that they are in control of. The thought of having to physically move oneself from their current environment to a new one is a debilitating one that evokes so many emotions to rise out of the person because they have nothing and no one and are placed in a survival mode to not succumb to moving back to their old life which is stagnant and draining.