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Jarrod Maclean's Short Essay 'A Handful Of Date'

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Connections Jarrod Maclean At the start of the short short “A Handful of Dates” written by Tayeb Salih, the Protagonist (unnamed) displays immature behaviour when he idolises his grandfather on based on looks and not his character. “I loved to give rein to my imagination and to picture myself a tribe of giants living behind that wood, a people tall and thin with white beards and sharp noses, like my grandfather.” This quote shows us that the Protagonist is immature at the start of the story because he idolises his grandfather by how tall he is and the whiteness of his beard, and not things that really matter. I think the single most important incident that caused the Protagonist to change was when the grandfather takes his share of the dates and leaves no dates for Masood. He now reminds Masood how much …show more content…

“This year she had the extra joy of showing it to her smaller brother, and of terrifying him.” The key incident that caused the Protagonist Julia to change was when Julia tells her parents about the trout and her parents don’t take any action about the trout, they just tell stories about it. “She knew there were no such things as fairy godmothers and that the trout, down in the dark walk was panting like an engine.” This shows us that Julia is becoming more mature by leaving the imaginary world behind. She realises that magic will not help the trout, this also further proves that she is becoming more mature. Julia starts to feel sorry for the trout; “it troubled her that the trout was always in the same position, he had no room to turn all the time the silver belly went up and down but otherwise he was motionless.” “She heard the unwinding of a fishing reel. Would the beasts fish him

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