Behind My Father Writes To My Woman Summary

There is an old English proverb that states “Behind every great man there is a great women”, In nearly every culture, every religion, every race and every society we see male domination. It 's often simply due to genetics !!. In Naguib Mahfouz, Assia Djebar And Khayriyah Ibrahim as-Saqqaf stories the poets wrote about the suffering and struggle of the women in various communities. Also in these stories it shows the role of the women and men in some society. The first story The Answer Is No by Naguib Mahfouz he wrote about a women who has been rappied by her teacher when she was young and he told her that he is going to propose to her when she come of age and left her without telling her parents, years passed he came to propose to her but …show more content…
The father ( Tahar) send to his wife a letter with a short greeting signed simply with his first name and he had written “Madame” to his wife which was against the rules but he wanted to change and be with his wife. The third story The Assassination of Light at the River’s Flow is about a girl who love school so much and she would never wants to quit studying, she lived far from her house because her school was there, one day her parents told her that they wants her to visit them she was worried because she normally visits them in the vacation but anyway she went to meet her parents, she found out that they have arranged for her to marry she was shocked because she doesnt wants to be with a man she don 't know, so she refused but they were pressuring on her they even hit hit her and isolate her just because she refused, however she said that she would never marry someone i don 't love. In these three stories I found out that all of the women are strong and rebelling against their …show more content…
One of them is that women haven’t been a president for these civilizations, it shows that women are still not equal to men.. Women are trying every year to win the same rights and respect. Similar in the story, The Assassination of Light at the River’s Flow, the girl kept refusing marriage and fighting for her education when her parents were abusing her, stopping her from going to school. She will rather die than go to Fahid’s bed. “...I don’t know in what wave I will finally let go and drown.”

Conclusion In these three stories I found out that all of the women are strong and rebelling against their culture. The women are brave and they dare to stand for their rights, even though they have people who are trying to control them. In The Answer Is No, the woman stayed independent by refusing to marry the man who wanted to own her. My Father Writes to My Mother, Tahar’s wife fought for change, she wanted to be treated equal. The Assassination of Light at the River’s Flow, the girl wanted her education, she refuses to get married. What would you do if you were in any of these