Summary Of Ali Eteraz's Children Of Dust

Children of Dust by Ali Eteraz, takes you on a journey through a child’s perspective, growing up through the Islamic religion in Pakistan to living in America as a Muslim family. He shows the reader what it is like to be Muslim as a young man and the different types of dilemma you may face. The book automatically captivates you from the very first page when he introduced his mother as well as the names of the rest of his family showing the reader right away that family is a huge dynamic in Islamic faith. He shared how his story will incorporate religion from the start when he mentioned how Allah asked if his creations will accept the burden of free will. The first part of his book showed much of him and his family, Ammi and Pops. His family was very strict with the Muslim faith. His father “Pops” made a covenant with God asking for a son and prayed that if he was given one his son would be a great leader and servant for all of Islam. His mother incorporated much of his faith with folk stories from the Quran to …show more content…
This part of the book was chaotic for the family. They seemed confused and did not understand how to fit in with the culture as well as the book included how his family started to become “corrupted”. His father spending more money than he should and his mother having to deal with the aftermath since she was in charge of the accounts. Ali also distances himself from the beliefs he was brought in stating that arranged marriages were an embarrassment to him. It was enjoyable to watch Ali start to make his own decisions because in America, that is a freedom that is an honor to have. Even though his mother’s traditional thinking included an arrange marriage, Ali understood that while living in America, he does not necessarily have to believe the same thing and execute her