'A handful of dates Essay\r'

'Children desire to copy their favorite contribution. They presuppose themselves to be ilk that soulfulness when they get big. manage this, a young male child , the main character of the story, â€Å"A Handful of Dates”, by Tayeb Saleh, imagine himself to be wish his gramps, when he get big. The story describes the puerility of a young male child, who does the things children typically do, go to school, find religious services, plays outside, and spends time with his favorite family member, his gramps.\r\nAlthough the male child loves his gramps and considers him as a great man, the son realizes, done his treatment of his neighbor Masood, that he is a sordid man, and doesn’t like him any much. Early in the story, the boy loves nature. The boy loves to go to the mosque every morning to intoxicate Quran.\r\nHe also loves to swim in the river and play in the field. The boy says, â€Å"The mosque, the river, and the fields †these were the landmarks i n our life history”(p-1,para-1).He also says, â€Å"…I loved the river too”(p1,para-2).In new(prenominal) words, the boy love the river as well as his village nature. The boy was idealistic about his granddad and wanted to be like him. His relationship with his granddaddy was very close.\r\nThe boy says, â€Å"I loved to institutionalize rein to my imagination and picture myself a race of giants living behind that wood, a multitude tall-stalked and thin with white beards and sharp noses, like my granddad”(p-1,para-2).In his imagination he call ins about his granddaddy, and says, â€Å" when I grew to be a man, tall and slender like him, manner of walking along with great strides”(p-1,para-2).He thinks himself to be like his grandpa when he gets big.\r\nAs the story begins, the boy notices his gramps doesn’t like their neighbor Masood. In a conversation he asked his grandfather that why he doesn’t like Masood. His grandfather answered that Masood is lazy person that’s why he doesn’t like him. â€Å"He’s an indolent man and I don’t like such people”(p-2,para-5). Moreover, grandfather also said that Masood married to a greater extent than one time and every time he got married, he sold some part of his blank space.\r\nâ€Å" Masood, my boy, was a much married man. Each time he married he sold me a feddan or two”(p- 3,para-14).The boy was thinking and made a calculation that may be Masood married more than ninety women, and then remembered that he had three wives and petition himself many questions. At the end of the story the boy realizes that his grandfather wasn’t that anatomy of person which he thought. According to the boy’s grandfather, he bequeath profane all of the Masood’s property to begin with he dies. Long time past when the grandfather first came in the village he didn’t had any property.\r\nNow two troika of his pr operty’s owner is grandfather. â€Å"…forty years ago all this belonged to Masood, two-thirds of it is now mine”(p-2,para-9). â€Å"… I think that before Allah calls me to Him I shall have bought the stay third as well”(p-2,para-11).Grandfather also said to the boy that he entrust buy Masood’s remaining property before he dies. The boy was thinking of himself that why his grandfather doing that and felt sorry for Masood.\r\nAn interior conflict develops when he found his grandfather is greedy, which he should not be as a Muslim. When the grandfather said he will buy Masood’s remaining property, the boy was thinking of himself that his grandfather will do what he said, and felt sorry for Masood. â€Å"I do not know why it was I felt fear at my grandfather’s words-and pity for our neighbor Masood.\r\nHow I wished my grandfather wouldn’t do what he’d said !” (p-2,para-12). The boy learn from the Quran that peo ple should be tender to weaker section people of the society. Instead of that, his grandfather wants to buy Masood’s remaining property, which shows that he not the kind of person he should be as a Muslim. The boy begins to notice Masood at the harvest-tide, and he feels fellow feeling for him.Masood invites the boy and his grandfather to harvest dates. At the harvest field the boy noticed Masood and thinking what his grandfather said about him.\r\nâ€Å"I remembered Masood’s respect to me when he had once seen me compete with the branch of a young palm tree: Palm tress, my boy, like humans, experience joy and suffering. And I had felt an interior and unreasoned embarrassment”(p-3,para-19).The boy remember, once he was playing with the palm tree Masood told him that palm trees are like human, which means Masood loves nature.\r\n'