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Question 1

The narrator's description of her grandfather, as a “tall, strong man with a flowing white beard” who is “the most wonderful man in the world”, is an example of juxtaposition, as is reality, he is not the man she has described. Initially, from...

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Question 2

How does Salih in a handful of dates uses the child narrator's changing relationship with his grandfather to argue that greed leads to self ruin

Embodied in the character of the grandfather, greed is a central theme in "A Handful of Dates." In the middle of the story, the narrator learns of his grandfather's desire for Masood's fortunes to continue flagging so that he may buy up the...

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Question 3

Hey please I have a literature exam on this week i have a question about the short story "A Handful of Dates"

There is not a lot of dramatic itrony in the story, but we do see the irony at the end of the story when the narrator, who has looked up to his grandfather from the start, chooses to vomit, throw up the dates, as a rejection of his grandfather's...

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