Essay on Critical Analysis of "The Sinners" by Yusuf Idris

“There was something about her, a certain strength of purpose and character, which confused him…”(Ayyoub 101). This excerpt from the short story “From Behind the Veil,” written by Dhu’l Nun Ayyoub, displays how differently people treat their beliefs. This story, along with an essay, “A Portrait of Egypt,” written by Mary Anne Weaver, discusses the topic of Egypt and how their past has developed today’s culture. Beliefs tend to portray people depending on how they go about it.

I chose to compare and contrast the two stories of Araby and Barn Burning for several reasons, many of which I will call upon later in the essay, but what predominately interested myself in these specific stories are the that they both touch upon specific tenants of growing up as a boy and the emergence into adulthood. In Araby, it is clear that the boy is entering adulthood as he is aflame with the insatiable desire for affection which takes form as a young girl he is infatuated with. Meanwhile in “Barn Burning”, the age of the boy is younger than the previous but is also riddled with the coming of age paradigm, notably in the awareness of the faults of our parents and the realization that although they may be family, not all people are inherently superior in morality, nor are

Although you may think of the Egyptians as a very independent nation, they were never really the ones in control. The real attributor of their ability to exist, lays squarely with the Nile. So much so that Egypt in its entirety, formed itself to compensate as well as to take advantage of the great waterway’s entirety. This phenomenon is especially evident in their religion, daily life and location of settlement. The influence the Nile had on their life’s shows just how dependent this renowned civilization was on the Nile.

The use of art has over the centuries been accentuated into a form of story-telling. Gradually, humans have learned to use art to ensure their legacies were forever remembered. In recent years, archeologists recovered lost art from lost civilizations thus enabling us to learn about them but from them as well. One such civilization is the Egyptian society which was separated into three periods- old, middle, and new kingdom. Although not a lost civilization, there is no denying that the Egypt of the old kingdoms is astonishingly different from the now democratic republic that has taken its place. Only art, in its many different forms, has allowed us to know what the old Egypt was like, and how this “new” Egypt came about.

In John Bul Dau’s memoir, God Grew Tired of Us, he tells the inspiring and heart wrenching story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. This two hundred and eighty one page book was published in 2008 in the USA. John’s moving story begins by explaining the tense political situation in his beloved homeland, Sudan. Sudan is a country located in Northern africa. John was born in1974 into the Dinka tribe in the agricultural and cattle raising farm of Duk County. The environment of southern Sudan is scorching hot and dry, however the farmers and herders in Sudan, including the one’s in John’s own village, adapted to their surroundings by using different techniques to hunt and grow produce varying on the season. He grew up in his peaceful village very

Although James Joyce short story “Araby” might be seen as a straightforward love story which ends up in failure, it discusses more issues than just love and failure. The concept of capitalism and materialism are also depicted in the story through the use of young boy who became immersed in a culture that believes in capitalism. Through this, the readers experience a unique journey a poor and discouraged person.

Amongst the turbid and dysfunction that is the Middle East lies the nation of Egypt. Egypt, a major country of the Middle East, is habitually considered stereotypical of Middle Eastern civilization, but further research guides one to the conclusion that Egypt is far from a generic Middle Eastern country. Egypt has a strong tradition of nationalism that has been formed during its history, giving it a national unity that is often non-existent in other Middle Eastern nations (1). This, as well as other advantages that Egypt has gained during its past, has allowed it to rise above the problems plaguing the rest of the Middle East and to form basically its

The Eloquent Peasant illustrates the key, reoccurring theme found in Egypt's pessimistic literature in a unique and specific way. Commonly found in this kind of literature is the idea of the world being “flipped upside-down”, where the gods do not listen to the people and the rich suffer while the poor rule. Rather than be present throughout Egypt, the stress in relationships with the gods on having a personal bond that people needed to strive for and had responsibility over to have a good afterlife. While the setting of the Peasant is not as intensely graphic as the bloodied and corpse-filled Nile as illustrated in The Admonitions of Ipuwer, the entropy of Ma'at not being fulfilled by the elites of society still showed a kind of chaos and

This paper explores the religion, history, and food culture of Egypt. It discusses the geographic setting and environment that affects the food availability and water supply for the Muslims. The distinct eating and dietary habits are explained and how they have evolved into modern society. Also, Egypt’s national food is listed along with the history behind it. Lastly, the paper explores the different holiday and religious celebrations that Muslims celebrate and what foods are consumed during each feast.

As we sat there in my neighbor's living room, filled with joyful memories, festive Christmas decorations, and the sweet smell of baking cookies wafting through from the kitchen, my neighbor Nazih started to tell me about where he grew up. “I always felt like a misfit. I like cleanliness and organization. I didn’t like dirt and chaos. I wanted freedom and opportunity.” He paused, gesturing to the Christmas decorations lying all around us, “I say this as we are surrounded by the chaos of Christmas decorations waiting to be put up, but this, this is a good sort of chaos, not full of unrest and dirt.” This alteration of chaos was a realization of accomplishment and reflection for Nazih, who grew up in Egypt. He shared with me how he grew up in

The graphic novel combines the ability of the image to elicit an emotional response and pull the audience in with the flexibility to allow the audience to go through the piece at their own pace. This allows Sacco to take more risks and gives him time to depict moments that do not have the shock value necessary to become the subject of traditional journalism, and these mundane daily moments are often the most powerful. One such moment occurs when Sacco goes to see the Egyptian boarder. He sees a woman yelling through the boarder fences and his companion informs him that she is having a conversation with someone in Egypt. The boarder, Sacco informs us, “was bulldozed right through Rafah, a Palestinian town,” leaving “a few thousand,” of the towns former inhabitants “stranded in Egypt,” (244). As he is leaving, Sacco sees two women “sitting on rocks waiting for a friend or relative on the Egyptian side to show up…”(244). In the next panel the women are seen through a matrix of the chain-link boarder fence and Sacco is visible behind them, following his companion away, under the caption, “we leave them to their waiting…” (244). These two panels contain no graphic images and minimal action, and yet they give such a haunting imagery to the plight of the Palestinians, a people forced to wait, eternally staring through fences at what was once home. Another simple but loaded moment that gives the reader a powerful sense of

Joyce's short story "Araby" is filled with symbolic images of a church. It opens and closes with strong symbols, and in the body of the story, the images are shaped by the young), Irish narrator's impressions of the effect the Church of Ireland has upon the people of Ire-land. The boy is fiercely determined to invest in someone within this Church the holiness he feels should be the natural state of all within it, but a succession of experiences forces him to see that his determination is in vain. At the climax of the story, when he realizes that his dreams of holiness and love are inconsistent with the actual world, his anger and anguish are directed, not toward the Church,

One clear depiction of an aspect of Egyptian social life in “The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant” is a high regard for the arts and wisdom, as seen through the king’s appreciation of a peasant’s eloquence and a longing to hear more of his speeches (30). Additionally, the fact that

The story “Araby” as told by James Joyce is about a young boy that is fascinated with the girl across the street. But deeper down the story is about a very lonely boy lusting for her love and affection. Throughout the story, we see how the frustration of first love, isolation and high expectations breaks the main character emotionally and physically. James Joyce uses the first-person viewpoint to tell this story which helps influence the plot, characterization, themes, and understanding of the main character.

The novel often talks about the setting, time and theme in Egyptian culture through stories of various characters. The culture describes in the novel restricts the readers’ views on