Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Man=Music??
A paragraph that caught my attention was a paragraph on page 10 - 11. It talks about Ahmad's passion. This paragraph talks about music and the husband. This is the second time music is brought up in the book. This paragraph tells us how musical Ahmad is. He loves music. In a way I think this section was put there to kinda maybe set up for something in the the future reading about Ahmad being very involved with music. This is the first time in the book where we don't see Ahmad as the bad person. One line that caught my attention was "he loved song with both his body and soul". This is the first time where we see hope in Ahmad being a real person as in someone having feelings. He may be nice or reasonable or different. We have hope for this. It tells us he has a soul and has love in him for something.
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I agree that at the start of the book, Ahmad is portrayed as a cruel and strict father, but as Mahfouz introduces Ahmad's secret life it shows us that he really is human. Mahfouz writes about Ahmad's music/secret life to show us how he is normal, but also that he feels like he can't be himself within his household without being seen as a weak or not having as much control over his family.
ReplyDeleteGood observations, Cesar. Work more with the details of the passage. Don't forget to give a page reference.
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ReplyDeleteMUsic, know that we have read the entire book is a big part of Ahmad. He lives for it and when someone dies all he hears is music(Kamal singing). in a way it's a type of get away just like it is for most people now a days
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