Thursday, March 15, 2012

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


Wednesday, March 7, 2012

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.