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Blog Post #32 - How does Mahfouz illustrate how fate is a major determiner of one's happiness in life?

Prompt: How does Mahfouz illustrate how fate is a major determiner of one's happiness in life? All through the novel, Thief and The Dogs, Mahfouz outlines the idea of destiny. Destiny is the point at which an occasion is past a people control; it was intended to happen. In light of what the perusers are presented all through the novel, we as of now comprehend that the hero; Said Mahran was conceived inside a low societal foundation. In view of his financial status, it was destiny that he started a thief in any case in light of the absence of opening for work and instruction amid the time. What's more, when he was discharged from jail, he had the decision to change his vocation way. In any case, in light of the conditions of his introduction to the world, burglarizing was the main thing that he knew he could do. Moreover, Fate is a noteworthy idea that decides a people bliss in life as portrayed through Said. Because of these activities, he proceeds out of th

Blog Post #31 - TATD - Said Passage Analysis

Quote: "That was how your own parents were buried: your father, Amm Mahran, the kindly concierge of the student’s hostel, who died middle-aged after a hard but honest and satisfying life. You helped him in his work from your childhood on. For all the extreme simplicity, even poverty of their lives, the family enjoyed sitting together when the day’s work was done, in their ground-floor room at the entrance to the building, where Amm Mahran and his wife would chat together while their child played. His piety made him happy, and the students respected him. The only entertainment he knew was making pilgrimage to the home of Sheikh Ali al-Junaydi, and it was through your father that you came to know the house. “Come along,” he’d say, “and I’ll show you how to have more fun than playing in the fields. You’ll see how sweet life can be, what it’s like in an atmosphere of godliness." Passage Analysis - Page 101: In chapter eleven, the reader begins to see a lot of chara