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Plot Summary of The Beginning and the End
"I'm Italian, so I'll do my best: this is the story of an impoverished family.The sudden poverty brings the two sons, Hasan and the younger Hasanayn, and the daughter Nafisa to loose their honesty and to forget moral behaviours. When the family has again a situation of well-being, the real tragedy happens."
Tiziana Floretti, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of The Beginning and the End
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Poverty, surviving Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story - making "Ends Meat" by prostitution
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Loss of... - parents

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - Arab
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - unemployed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 ()
Africa Yes
Kind of Africa: - Arabic Africa

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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Naguib Mahfouz Resident Scholar Profiles

TOP SCHOLAR:
  
Matt Josey  

SCHOLARS:
David Loftus  Tiziana Floretti  


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