A handful of dates.

The beginning of the short story is flashback the boy Tayeb told. This story represents the innocence of the boy, youth, love for nature, and love and respect for grandfather. That boy, Tayeb worships his grandfather as a god. Their neighbor, Masood, inherited a lot of land from his father, and as the number of wives increased, they were obliged to sell the land to his grandfather. My grandfather wants to own all the land that Masood used to own. Therefore, his mood is low, when seeing his grandfather has no mercy on Masood Taybu.

Massoud asked Taib and his grandfather to help collect dates, but Taibu did not think Masood did not want him to join his grandfather.

The main confrontation of the story "days" is among the people, mainly between grandfather and Masood.

Tayeb Saleh took his grandfather, except that he had to go to the mosque to study the Quran in the morning.

Tayeb recites the Quran for his grandfather, and he can say from his face that he was touched.

Tayeb and his grandfather went to the property harvest date of Masood. Tayeb noticed that Masood did not eat the date

Tayeb realized that his grandfather was selfish and his idol became hate against his grandfather.

After saying Grandpa had to pay Masood his debt, Tayeb felt pain in Masood and wanted to reach out and reach out to him.

If you need money and more needs, individuals will lose contact with humans.

Symbolism: "So, I do not know why, I put my fingers in my throat and spit out the day I ate"

Please try to imagine. "...... I sit on the beach and hide behind a thick Acacia tree looking at the water covering the east."

On some dates of Tayeb Salih, our theme is contact, domination, greed, egoism, rejection, injustice, conflict, and adulthood. The first person reviewed his childhood affair in the first person's story and the reader realized this after reading the story that Salih might be exploring the theme to which it was connected . The narrator and his grandfather spent a lot of time together. A longer time than a narrator and his father. The talker also likes to help his grandfather and likes to read his Quran. The narrator not only loves his grandfather but also seems to have a strong connection with him. He is always there for his grandfather, and his grandfather is always there as a storyteller. Interestingly, after careful observation, when the narrator saw how the narrator treated Masood, the emotions of the narrator to his grandfather changed.

The short story "A Handful of Dates" by Tayeb Salih uses various themes and literary techniques to tell the story of an innocent little boy who discovered the difficulties of life. The story begins with three introductory sentences, including background information about the boy who receives the story from grandfather and reader. These sentences indicate that the boy is young, innocent, highly intellectual and has great passion for nature. His grandfather was a mighty man, tall and bearded, and it was said that the reader was beautiful and soft. Then the story moved to Masood, the neighbor who inherited most of the land from his father, but due to the excessive number of his wife, they were forced to sell the land gradually to the boy's grandfather . The action of the story explains Masood date field harvesting day, various character of the town appearing and helping to work hard and eat some dates

When Masood harvested the date, his grandfather was sitting watching him. After the harvest day, my grandfather gave the boy some dates, then they began to separate. My grandfather and the other divided the date, and Masood was not. My grandfather said that Masood still owes his debt. At the end of a depraved short story, the boy ran toward the river and threw all the schedule he ate just now into the river. He compares his grandfather with the river, and his grandfather has the day, which shows irony and disgust. Some of the Tayeb Salih dates will help overwhelm or influence the background of our human morality. At the beginning of a short story, the hero explains his grandfather as pure as his favorite river. This may be his childhood innocence, but his grandfather seems reasonable in most of his actions.