When Siddhartha leaves the grove, he is done with teachers and teaching. He is seeking something more enlightenment. siddhartha tries so hard to be in the state of nirvana that everything he know does is about his meditation and leaving his father and family in order to really get the feeling of nirvana which is the release from a state of suffering after an often lengthy period of committed spiritual practice.
Siddhartha fast and goes many days , months without eating because his obession reaching nirvana. Siddhartha was a person who brought people joy, happiness, etc but never brought himself something joyful. Siddhartha wants to know himself, learn from himself, and understand himself. He wants explore his true nature of spirtual feeling. Drugs are a way to forgeting about reality and problems . drugs arent a good choice instead of geting drunk or getting high and doing things you will regret , praying to god and ask forgiveness and face thed truth.
Drugs have no positive effects at all. It negatives effects are that a person
losses self control, they do not have a good memory, it damages a organs in the
human body, it slows down the brain and body, it can also increase ones chances
of getting a variety of diseases,people are in such desire to remove themselves from reality to feel that state
of mind, they are in need of running way from their problems in reality and the
solution would be to reach that altered state of consciousness and forget about
everything. doing drugs is like a moment of fun but when that moment is done you want it so bad you will do anything to relive it . Drugs is a of getting away from something. Drugs might sound like the right answer at first but when you end up doing it later the only things you will be doing is regreting your decision.

In Hinduism, the "Untouchables" constitute the "fifth caste" - those people who fall below the four principle castes or varna and are, in a sense, outside of the caste system altogether. Outcastes. The untouchables in hindism are people who treated badly and given horriable jobs . untouchables have only been permitted to live on the outskirts of villages and they have been prohibited from taking water from the same wells as members of higher castes. Many untouchables were only allowed to move around at night, lest the very sight of them pollute someone from a higher caste and some carried around drums to make noise and warn others before they met.

In Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, (the authors) use the reinforcement of mainstream stereotypes in order to demonstrate the relationship between Muslim males and females

In seven Daughters Man and women are decribed way differently because of the multiple roles they act and are responiable everyday. In seven daughters women appears in the book as house wifes and idiots making them seem like their use less and horriable understanders , acting like women dont understand men and dont have the same state of mind making them uneedable. In the book Mahmaud, Amin ,Uthman and Nasir describe girls makes good through hard work, diligence , and brains.
The story shifts point of view in the middle, just at the right place,
In the book seven daughters seven sons all women are stay home, cleaners, little sud owners but one girl dares to be different and prove world wrong and show her idea how the world changes when they expect the women to stay home instead of being the bread winners. Buran one of the main characters who establishes women have the muscles and brains and establishe a successful business. she maintains her masculine disguise in tricking the world she can prove that women are as equal unity and in power.
In the begining and the middle of the book the made women seem as if they were use less but to prove in many nature that if women werent here like Buran to save the day everything would have fallen apart .

Thesis statement

In Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, (the authors) use the reinforcement of mainstream stereotypes in order to demonstrate the relationship between Muslim males and females

1. What is the conflict between Amin and Nasir?

• Amin is frustrated with Nasir because he hates that Mahmud is becomming closer friends with and spending most of his time with him and not him basically Amin is jelous that Mahmud found a true friend.

2. Why does Mahmud begin to "test" Nasir?

• Mahmud had a fervor that Nasir was a women. What are these test?


• Test one was having Nasir play chess game which proved that if if hewon or knew how to play he was a man because in the book women in those days didnt know hw to play chess unless you were a man. Test two was to take Nasir to the basket of Mahmuds palace and see what Nasir would hae pick between jewels or swords. Test 3 which was for Nasir to come to the bath house which he never showed up meaning Nasiris is a women.

3. What would a feminist critic say about the "tests" Mahmud conducts on Nasir?

• The feminist critic would say Mahmud was playing a gender issue game to prove a superficial fact by driving the contestant to her or his desire for things.

4. Why must Mahmud go to Alexandria? What happened? Mahmud must go to Alexandria because of Nasir. Mahmud,Nasir and the guys were suppose to meet up at the bath and never showed.

1. What is the deal that Nasir made with Jihha?2. Based on what you've read thus far, make an inference on what you think might happen with Nasir in Part 2?
Nasira and jihha will start a business at suq and sell medican herbs In order for their family to get rich and live happily.

1.What impacts of Quran on Arabic literature can you sought out in this book. Think of the beginning/ start of the book? The Qur'an has been the ultimate source recognized
command for muslims and which has great impact on the Aracbic literature . Basically this book is saying words are put down in remembrance of thier remarkable events for those who came after to read and know about , through beauty of arabic writing.

2. How is Islam influenced by this text. Give 3 instances/moments where this happens.

"Followers of Islam, known as Muslims, believe that God (or, in Arabic, Allah)"

1. O my children,the ways of Allah are beyond human understanding

2." Allah will provide," they alsways said . "Allah will provide."

3." May Allah prosper you in all you undertake. May he keep you in health.

3. Why is Fatimah crying? What ill-fate is the narrator talking about?If Buran was rejected by her own blood she cried thinking what man would want her and her mother said if Allah could find one for me then Insha Allah , Allah will provide one for you. which man were perfect for them because of their status like cheap, a burden and etc.
4. Burhan is talking to herself, after having a short conversation with her father. She says, " It wouldn't have been a mistake three hundred years before, or two hundred years before, or even hundred years before". What is she referring to here? What was the short conversation father and daughter had? She is saying times had changed and by her trying to get her father to send her to set up a shop so her family could stop suffering and live the life they should have.

Questions (p 28-50)
1. "If I die, let me die among those I love”. Who said this what is the context? Abu al-Banat , the father of seven daughters
2. “You have a most educated eye my daughter? (P.35) What of Burhan is revealed here?That Burhan is shopping and the stall keeper say she had an educated eye meaning selecting clothes for herslef which she tells the keeper its for her brother , it reavles that she has good intentions for things just as trading gender.
3. Who is Gindar? Gindar is the cheif basically the taxi driver for Buran long journey.
4. “ A man on my caravan will tell you as much about himself as he wants you to know.” Pg.45 What does this foreshadow? You are here for a reason not to be heart felted , just business and dont share any information you wouldnt want out in the open.
5. Coming of Age: Read the first full paragraph on p. 40 ( A bend in the suq…..) and explain how this paragraphs shows coming of age? This is comming of age because Buran is walking by the Nizamiyya college and rembering the golden age and what her city and life really meant to her and her experience.
A coming-of-age story or novel is memorable because the character undergoes adventures and/or inner turmoil in his/her growth and development as a human being. Some characters come to grips with the reality of cruelty in the world--with war, violence, death, racism, and hatred--while others deal with family, friends, or community issues. ( from: http://classiclit.about.com/)
6. “It would be better to attempt to cross the desert by myself and die on the journey, my bones picked clean by vultures and left to bleach in the sun then go back home.” Why is Nasir saying this pg.48? Nasir is saying that anything would be better than to bring back my cowadice back to my father's house and had already failed, he would once more talk to the Gindarbefore he under goes this long journey alone.