Alifa Rifaat's short story "Another Evening at the Club" paints a clear picture of the powerless, inferior role of women in Egyptian society: the main character Samia is trapped in an arranged marriage in which she is repeatedly forced into betraying her own values and beliefs.
For example, when Bey, her husband, says to Samia "Tell people you're from the well-known Barakat family and that your father was a judge," she is obliged to lie about her own family's social status, in spite of how she was raised to be an honest person, just for the sake of making Bey look more important in the public eye.
In the end, Bey forces Samia into the ultimate act of dishonesty: protecting a lie that is causing their servant to be tortured, only to avoid his husband's embarrassment, when he says "By now the whole town knows the servant stole the ring—or would you like me to tell everyone: 'Look,folks, the fact is that the wife got a bit tiddly on a couple of sips of beer and the ring took off on its own and hid itself behind the dressing-table."
Answer:
There are five common patterns:
1. description,
2. sequence,
3. cause and effect,
4. compare and contrast,
5. and problem and solution.
Explanation:
To learn signal words that give clues about which organizational pattern is being used, and how to analyze a text to figure out its structure, I suggest you check this: https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/text-structure/
Answer:
negatively; worse
Explanation:
Zane just learned that she did not get into the college of her choice. She comes upon Alec, a resident of a nearby neighborhood and one that most outsiders find distasteful. It is likely that the news Zane just received will cause her to judge Alec more NEGATIVELY making her feel WORSE about herself.
the affirmative constructive and the negative constructive.
