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Loss of innocence is a dominant theme in "A Handful of Dates." In the first third of the story, the narrator establishes his innocence by outlining his daily routine as an untroubled boy who performs well at the mosque, swims in the river, lets...
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The narrator describes how he loved to lie on the bank of the Nile and "give rein to my imagination and picture to myself a tribe of giants living behind that wood, a people tall and thin with white beards and sharp noses, like my grandfather." In...
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The narrator does go with his grandfather but soon runs away, sickened by his grandfather's greed and determination to collect on a debt.
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