Tuesday, November 17, 2009

My World of the Unknown #3

How important of a role does the narrator's husband play in the story? Could this have any relevance to the djinn's importance?
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  1. dtwelve89November 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM

    The narrator's husband plays an important role in the story in that he represents the narrator's life in reality. The main conflict of the story was basically for the narrator to choose between her husband and the snake. Her husband represented sanity and her life in reality while the snake represented temptation of pleasure in an imaginary world.

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  2. GwenNovember 20, 2009 at 8:26 PM

    I think that the narrator's husband is a reminder of the love that she’s missing from her life. Her husband is a busy working man that doesn’t give her the same excitement that the snake does. At the end of the story, the husband killed a snake, which ended the love affair of the narrator and the snake. The husband's lack of passion caused the narrator to crave for the snake's loving; the husband is what causes the djinn to be so meaningful to the narrator.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM

    The husband played a very important role in the story. Quite frankly the djinn could only do what the husband allowed, even if the husband had no knowledge of his own authority. The wife had the dream of the house after she learned of her husbands’ relocation assignment. The wife was able to pick the house out because her husband was to busy to go himself. Upon learning of the djinn from Sheik Farid and the possible intentions of the djinn, the husband stated on pg 1136 in the last paragraph, “Let’s be practical, and stop all the cracks at the bottom of the outside walls and put wire-mesh over the windows, also paint wormwood all round the garden fence.” He could have easily insisted that they move. The djinn only appeared when the husband was not around and as soon as he killed the snake the djinn informed the wife that it was time to leave the house. The husbands actions directly influenced the djinn, which in turn influenced his wife.

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