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The Book Dreams of Trespass: English Assignment

   

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Running head: ENGLISHEnglishName of the student:Name of university:Author note:

1ENGLISHThe book Dreams of Trespass: Tales of Harem girlhood written by Fatima Mernissidescribes the story of a girl of the Moroccan Harem (Mernissi, 1995). The girl who is theprotagonist of the story questions everything she observes and at first it may seem that thequestions that the girl is asking has no importance at all because it is just the things a child isinterested to know about the world. However, it can be observed after some time that herquestions are about the harem life and the frontier or boundary is the main unit that is slowlyshaping her life as well as her insight (Mernissi, 2015). She did not get the answers to herquestions, what she observed that in a harem questions are not asked because someone wants toknow something; it is asked to understand the happenings of the place. As the story evolves, it isseen that frontier becomes a big problem in her life and it changes everything. After a certaintime she wants to find out how the frontier works and as the story proceeds, she ends us havingan inconsistent relationship with all the boundaries or frontier she is covered with in her life.Slowly with time, looking for the frontier becomes her occupation and while discovering thefrontier her life became disordered. The writing style of Mernissi depicted the harem as a frontierbecause the women had to take permission or justify themselves with proper reason in case theywanted to step in or out of the harem (Bourget, 2013). The writer portrayed the character of Mernissi’s mother with fluency and this can be saidbecause she was the one to dream that she would live alone with her husband and children. Shethought when everyone stays at a bounded place life becomes miserable. The book has manyfrontiers, the one between the Christians and Muslims, the other one for the dressing of women,another for the children and lastly hearing of radio (Bourget, 2013). Harem is not at all a goodplace, for not only what the author wrote in the book about it but in any individual perspectivealso, harem does not sound a good thing. Harem is mainly a place many wives of a single man

2ENGLISHlive together, precisely; it is a place, where a woman is bound to share her husband with otherwomen (Ayadi, 2014). Stuck in a harem means that the woman has lost her freedom and issurrounded by many frontiers, which she is unable to break. The author has presented thecharacter of Yasmina to be a strong one who seemed to believe that every individual has manyfrontiers in their life and harem according to her was the forbidden place (Moruzzi, 2016).According to Yasmina’s perspective as seen in the story, harem may take away many freedomsbut it provides freedom to someone else. The frontier affected each of the lives of women livingthere but who sets the frontiers is still unknown or who is the one to decide what frontier must beimplemented (Benmessaoud, 2013). Similarly, in life, people come across many frontiers but theperson who started it is still unknown. In the book, the author used the character of Yasmina to define what a harem is andclearly depicts the fact that harem is a place where the husband is the owner and his instructionsare needed to be followed (Magliaro, 2014). The book clearly depicted within the character ofYasmina that a woman’s life is always covered with sorrow, as a woman who is working athome is not paid but men are paid and this increases the status of men in the world and inpersonal spaces as well (Alfano et al., 2014).

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