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Sixth: the characters, the time and the place

Sixth: the characters, the time and the place

Point 6 of 10 — Lesson 2: The Church Lit Up by Ibrahim Aslan and the Compression of the Short StoryQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

06Sixth: the characters, the time and the place

  • The narrator (Ibrahim Aslan himself): the main mover of the events, telling it in the first-person plural — "we used to (kuna)".
  • His friend Edwar Al-Kharrat: appears at the end of the story as the interlocutor.
  • Uncle Mansour the Christian, his family and the children of the alley: collective characters expressing unity.
  • Time: Ramadan in the summer months, with the mention of "zman" (the past) and then the present.
  • Place: Imbaba, the bank of the Nile and the Imbaba bridge — against the Zamalek district and the church.

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