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Half A Day Naguib Mahfouz

Summary of Half A Day: Naguib Mahfouz's short story "Half A Day" captures the essence of each human being's time on earth and the changes that we all encounter throughout our life. This story takes you on a thought provoking journey of unconventional misfortune and unexpected modernization. At the beginning of "Half A Day" the narrator is portrayed a a young child being forced to go to his first day of school. By the time he is to leave school for home a drastic change has occurred. According to the narrator a lifetime felt like just half a day.

Info About My Author: Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 to low-middle class family in Cario, Egypt. He was the youngest of seven children, who were raised in a strongly religious household. In 1937, Naguib earned his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Cairo, formally known as the University of Fuad. He began to write a the age of seventeen and had his first novel published in 1939, when he was only 28 years old. After the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, Naguib stopped writing for several years. He did not publish anything new until 1959. His most famous writings were the Cairo Trilogy which included three stories //Between-the-Palaces, Palace of Longing,// and //Sugarhouse//. In 1988 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. Naguib Mahfouz died on August 30, 2006 from a heart attack, he was 94 years old. Throughout his 70-year career he published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays.

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My Opinion of Half A Day: <span style="font-size: 125%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(56, 56, 56);">I enjoyed and would strongly approve reading the short story of //Half A Day// written by Naguib Malfouz because anyone can relate to its theme. Also it is not only for young adults but for elders as well because of the underling nostalgic theme. If you get the time to read Half A Day I think you will get enjoyment out of its twists and turns.

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