I can inferred from the title “ A
Handful of Dates” that the story taken place in middle eastern countries like
Arabic, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Lybian, Marocco, and the other countries that has
desert areas and hot temperatures because this condition make a Date Trees can
growing faster and fertile. I can also inferred that the participant from the
story are middle eastern countries and use cloak for their clothes. The
religioun is moslem.
After I read the story I also can
inferred that the story tell about a young whose looks up to his grandfather as
a God. One day, their neighbor “ masood” told them that he was harvesting the
dates and ask them to help. The grandfather said that he and Masood did’nt like
each other. The grandfather sid that because Masood had treated him badly. So,
the grandfather and a young boy went to harvest dates. They sat on a stool when
Masood harvested the dates. Masood told to everyone to be careful not to cut
the heart of the palm. Once of dates had been harvested, grandfather and the
others went over towards the dates. The grandfather gave some of the dates. The
grandfather and the other sepearted the dates and left none for Masood. Then,
the grandfather said that Masood was till in dept to him
After this, the young boy rab off
because he know had a felling of hate towards his grandfather. He was mad at
the way he had treated Masood. He ran right river and threw up all the dates he
had just eaten into the river.
