Sunday, March 6, 2016

Is Nada's death is repeated again?

'The Hajj' is a novel written by a Jew writer Leon Uris I have read this novel almost one year ago and from then I want to write its review but I can't able to do it, The Hajj is a story of a village Mukhtar called Ibrahim Al Sharuki al Wahabi who even performing Hajj in his youth and gain respect of the people of the village and after that he was called the Hajj Ibrahim this whole novel is narrated by the son of the Protagonist Ishmael, there are so many characters in the novel all of them are done there duty perfectly, this is a story based on a village situated in palestine, its shows how Palestinians are forced to live there own soil and take shelter in Syria, Egypt, Arab and many other countries, actually right now I am not writing any review of the Novel but I want to tell what is the conditions of then writer sketched in his book the conditions of the present in Syria are almost like the same people have to take the refuge of the other countries from there own mother land the war ruining the life of so many people, men are dying women are raped children's get orphaned, youth lost there limbs and some of the forcefully driven to join the Fedayeens, if some of you followed the BBC news regularly you will understand how the migrant problem growing every day more and more, Syrians try to get into Europe to find a better shelter, the Syrians and some part of the Iraqis are now homeless and they spread in whole of the Europe they don't have any option other than to flee from there own country and enter in some other country, like Turkey, Greece,Germany,Hungary,Macedonia, France,England everywhere in the process they are risking there lives and many of the Syrians are died in the midway, in a similar process a three year old child was also died, you might have listened to his name Aylan Kurdi whose photos are viral in the internet last year he was died because of whom? In the same manner in the Novel 'The Hajj' many people are dying during the journey, the conditions of 1944 and 2016 are almost the same, I feel very sad when I completed the Novel the portray of the agony of the people and suffering of the Sharuki families really pained any one, how superstitions ruined the peoples life how Jingoism ruined the peoples life how petty politics ruined the peoples life was shownd in the novel, I see the pictures of the Novel in front of my eyes when I see the news of the migrant problems in Europe, how lacs of people lost there home and stranded in the land which is totally unknown to them they are marooned in a alien land and looking for a life which is 'harshly available' who is responsible for there fate? The most pathetic part of the novel is when Nada the daughter of the Ibrahim was forced to go to be a servant of an eminent Arab family where she was alone and free to make her choices she chose a free sex life with the male member of the family her employer and French Boy comes to serve in the French Embassy in the Arab and after that a Fedayeen, and the most pathetic part of the novel is when Nada told her father she was not a 'virgin' any more she was brutally killed by her own father in the name of protecting the honour of his family, Nada's death can be stopped if her father give her hand to a suitable boy, many boys in the camps come to her father and asked her hand but Ibrahim denied everyone, because he thought that no on is worthy to win her daughters hand, Nada was totally chained by her parents because of there customs, you can feel an emotion of young girl who enters in a age of marriage attracted toward the boys but just to save there pride her family not allowed any one to marry her, and she not allow to open up in front anyone even she can't express herself infront of her own brothers, she was only close to her younger brother Ishmael, after Nada's death Ishmael lost her sanity and the novel ends in a very sad message, after seeing the recent migrant problem I feel that many other Nada's and Ishmael's are in process of making may god save them to join the same, death of Nada really pained me.

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