Thursday, March 7, 2019
In the country of men paragraphs Essay
Matar emphasise the fact that women are prestigious even in a patriarchal society by set off the theme of male which he incorporates within the patriarchy. He eradicates the allusion that women in Libya work no rights, I cried because I understood that I was now the lieu of some other man (Pg 173) this powerful quote chosen by Matar, portrays the aggravator and emotions experienced by real women in cases where arranged marriages occur. However he also envisions how Suleiman didnt understand his role in the society, when he uses the typesetters case of Suleiman to say We aretwo open pages of the same book, this gives us the meaning of equalisation, between man and women, which as Matar knows in the time of 1979 in Libya women were never equal to man.Matar describes how Libyan men are cruel and sorry towards traitors of Libya, he uses the character of Ustath Rashid, to show the cruelty of the regime. As the character, Ustath Rashid is hanged on rest television for being a tra itor (Page 187). Matar uses this scene to revolt and straiten readers about the realisations of Libya, and if you were suspected of crimes against Qaddafi, you would be captured and killed. They looked like kidren satisfied with the swing they had notwithstanding made (page 187). This shows how the people of Libya supported the ideas of Qaddafi, Matar wanted to expose this as it is of the essence(p) to understand that not all people in Libya were fearful of Qaddafi provided rather some agreed with him and his cruel ways. They say the man fluent like ice in a fire, The cheering became louder and more(prenominal) furious (page 187). Matar wanted to demonstrate how people can disappear and to show how powerful Qaddafi was.Through the novel, Matar values children and makes this clear that children are seen as another innocent casualty of Qaddafis totalitarian regime. The authors reckon use of Suleiman, a nine year old narrator, as hostile to the adult Suleiman, as it shows how children arent able to fully comprehend what is deprivation on around them, which gives us an indication that by having a child narrate the novel, would have an unbiased perspective rather than an adult who would be against the regime but also because children dont hold support from handing out private information.
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