Saturday, May 2, 2009
The Night of the Festival
This story was just alright, not to good and not to bad. When referring to the important aspects of the plot, it's basically the same as The Assassination of Light at the River's Flow, except Munir at the end does not go through with the arranged marriage his parents set up for him. The story started out quite strange. It was kind of annoying how it kept switching between scenes, and in got pretty annoying after a while. But, I really enjoyed the descriptions and insight it gave us into life in that culture, and for me that makes it much, much better than The Assassination of Light at the River's Flow. I thought that the ending of this story was good, though, how the girls were the ones who were most upset about Munir's engagement, and not Hajji Guma. It made sense, but the entire story concerning his decision up to that point was focused on him, so it was pretty surprising. Overall, this was a decent story. I thought that the parts about their culture was more interesting that the actual happenings of the story. Better that The Assassination of Light at the River's Flow, but not as good as Aren't There Any Donkeys in Your Country?
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I think the Dad is not upset because it is his fault that his son went off to marry another woman. In most cases the Son would have come home to the festival and his family would have told him about his marriage. However this is the one time where he didn't come home because the didn't tell him what was planned. The reason why the girls are upset is because neither of them are going to get married now. It is kind of confusing but the fathers arranged for Munir to be married to his cousin if Khadija(munir's sister) was married to Nafusa's brother(who would be Munir's in-law. so now new arrangements must be made for Nafusa and Khadija because Hajji Guma doesn't have his son to "trade" for his daughters hand.
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