Previous
Home Secretary
MI5 is Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, the equivalent of the Homeland Security department in the United States. In the book, agents from MI5 come to Isma, Aneeka, and Parvaiz’s home after Adil leaves to become a jihadi in Bosnia.
MI5 Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by MI5 or refer to MI5. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
Quotes
They’d returned most of the items they took, but not the pictures of Adil Pasha climbing a mountain, sitting beside a campfire, wading across a stream—sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of other men, always smiling, always with a gun slung over his shoulder or cradled in his lap. When you’re old enough, my son, his father had inscribed inside it, which made Parvaiz’s mother furious for reasons he didn't then understand.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Get the entire Home Fire LitChart as a printable PDF.
MI5 Term Timeline in Home Fire
The timeline below shows where the term MI5 appears in Home Fire. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2 – Isma
Isma continues: a few months after Adil disappeared, MI5 came around to ask about him. Then, in 2004, a Pakistani man was released from...
(full context)
Chapter 4 – Eamonn
...that if they were to leave the country together, Karamat would know. She says that MI5 is watching her, monitoring all her messages and Internet history. When Eamonn protests that they’re...
(full context)
Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
...the son of “Abu Parvaiz.” Parvaiz immediately becomes skeptical, wondering if the man is from MI5. He remembers when agents had come to the house and played with him and Aneeka,...
(full context)
