Small Sun

This was another magical story. The man Fahd was drunk seeing a king's son who he thought was a sheep , he was promised seven jars of gold coins. He went home to his wife to tell her about it, they fantize about having wealth for their soon to come child. The man gets stabbed to death by another drunk man while on his way looking for the king's son.

Flower Crazy

This story was very all over the place I could barely make out who was talking, I gathered that this lady was a prositute had two or three kids and was probably getting sick from aids. She spent her money on magazines and cigoretts, she had a famished dog and only gave coins to the kids.

Persian Carpet

This was a good type of sadness. This woman threatened to burn herself alive if her husband and the laws of Allah would not let her out of her marriage. She wanted to marry the man she had fallen in love with before she was forced to marry him, they had a daughter. So the father re-married to Maryum and they had another daughter. One day the oldest daughter was taken to see her mother, she was very excited. Before that had happen the story tells you that the family's rug had been stolen it was a valuable cherished persian rug, they accused people but no one came forward. So on the day the girl had went to visit her mother she noticed that her mother had the same exact rug because she remembered exactly how it had looked from doing lessons on it. I felt bad for the girl finally getting to spend time with her mother and realized that she was just a thief.

Cairo is a Small City

Being that I am not personally a fan of the Arabic culture, I will try and paint a nice picture. Basically this man has been stalking this woman for awhile and starts falling madly in love with her. So much that he starts building his buildings after the months he had left untill he could see her because he was an engineer. Then he takes all the steps into getting a meeting with the girls father to ask for permission of her hand and the rest gets tricky. I didnt understand the turning point with the gun being brought out and the point at the end where Adil was killed.

Another Evening at The Club

All these stories start off with the fact that as a young girl in that kind of culture its their job to only think about getting married. But at least in this story the girl gets to marry a nice guy all most and seems to live wealthy having maids bring her breakfast. The story has on point of action when the ring goes missing, and they falsely accused the maid. When turns out the ring was found by the wife on the floor under the dresser. But instead of saying they was wrong of accusing the maid the husband decided not to ruin his reputation.

Clocks Like Horses

It was interesting as to how the ninety year old man kept time with each different parts of the world. And it was like a lapse in time to hear his old war stories of how he led his life working on ships. The weird part was at the end when the story mentions something about how he knows there will be the old man waiting lying in his bead dead. Maybe this story had an alternate meaning but I really didn't catch it.

A Night Out

In class we had a wide debate of disgust about this story. The main points consist of this man found this prostitute walking on the street , went back to her place to have sex when he already purchased a hotel room for himself. Then he gets there they talk about her assumed to be dead husband while she's putting her child to sleep on the floor, after it had been coughing a rough cough. Then they have sex and the man wakes up in the morning a realizes her son was dead on the floor, this man den slips her some money on the table and tries to leave unnoticed. But the mother half way wakes up to tell him goodbye and the man doesn't even bother to mention to her that her child may be dead on the floor because he didn't want to be involved with the funeral mourning.