The Vice Principal Short Story
In the story The Vice Principal written by Houshang Moradi-Kermani, we see the young boy, Majid challenge the dominant perspective of several people such as, the principal, the vice principal, his teachers and also his grandmother. When asked to write in his own opinion about who has the most important job, he answers with his own beliefs and moral imagination. He writes his essay expressing his opinion about the body-washer. “Yet he, with complete patience and forbearance and self-sacrifice and pleasant demeanor, nicely washes and shrouds all the people of the town, one by one from doctor to teacher, grocer, office worker and policeman. He holds no grudge in his heart for anyone. He wouldn’t hurt even an ant nor has he any expectation of respect and commendation from anyone” (Pg. 14).
People judge the body-washer and think less of him for what he does. “Still, with the sting of our tongues we torment the body-washer and shower snide remarks on him. For example, any time we see someone who looks a little odd and his clothes are mismatched and his hair is disheveled and his complexion is pale and there is rather a lot of gunk around his eyelashes and drool is dropping out of the corners of his mouth and he’s got a nasty disposition, we say, ‘He looks just like a body-washer,’ and this is totally unfair since our very own body-washer has a proper black hat and coat which appear to have once belonged to some affluent person” (Pg. 13).
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