I Am Who Society Tells Me To Be Analysis

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I Am Who Society Tells Me to Be
Nowadays the rates of migration are very high. And many problems arise based on it. One such problem is when parents move to another country they want their kids to follow the culture and the religion of the country they are from. But sometimes it becomes not possible. In this paper I would like to look at how different environments influence people's behavior, values and their interaction with the religion and culture. I choose the story The Women's Swimming Pool by Hanan Al-Shaykh and a TV series O Clone. Events in both of them happen within Islamic society. This fact makes it easier to analyze them. I will look at the girl from The Women's Swimming Pool by Hanan Al-Shaykh. This girl is the narrator …show more content…
In The Women's Swimming Pool Hanan's grandmother says: ”All this trouble is that devil Sumayya's fault – it was she who told you she'd see with her own eyes the swimming pool just for women and not for men” (Al-Shaykh 1168). Thus it is clear that Hanan finds out about that swimming pool from a friend of hers Sumayya. Hanan's grandmother does not like that influence. And as we have seen above she calls Sumayya a devil (and that actually happens several times in the whole story). Sumayya has a bad impact on Hanan. When a child sees that his friend has a toy, this kid wants to have it as well. If a friend of Hanan's is able to go to a women's swimming pool, our main character is also supposed to be able to do that as well! The other girl, Samira has a couple of friends who constantly invite her to different parties. Or just to study together. Some of her friends have boyfriends. And she also wants to be like they are. Parents do not let Samira to visit her friends' homes and they do not really like that she spends time with them. They try to minimize their socializing. Under her friends' influence Samira refuses to wear hijab when she has to because she is afraid that her friends will laugh at her. She alos asks her mother to hide from her father that she is already old enough to wear hijab. Also she want to wear tops like other girls do. Generally, she just tries to become a girl of a modern Brazilian
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