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Title	Pictures
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Pictures

Pictures

The main conflict in the text is about having different religions. It's about
how a little girl is having problems about understanding why she can't paint
religious persons with dark skin. At school the teacher says that Amina can take
the picture to show her mom. Amina doesn't understand why it can't hang on the
wall together with the other childrens'. But the teacher gives another excuse
and Amina "surrenders", and takes the picture home. But as her mother sees the
picture she tears it apart, and tells Amina to never say anything to Amina's
father and she tells Amina explicitly not to draw anymore pictures of the
Prophet of Nazareth. It is obvious that Amina's mother is scared of how the
father will react if he sees that her daughter has painted people from the Bible.
Amina and her family are muslims, that's why her mother can't accept the drawing
Amina brings home. The reason why she doesn't want the father to know is that
he's the dominant one in the family. Maybe the mother is scared that he will
punish Amina, or maybe even the mother, for not bringing up her daughter
properly. Then Amina's mother teaches her to draw patterns from the Koran. Amina
likes to draw the patterns and she is no more confused. Next day at school,
they're all going to draw nice Christmas cards. Amina draws the patterns that
her mother has just taught her. The teacher tells her to draw people instead,
and she throws away the Christmas card with patterns on it. Amina refuses to
draw people, and reminds the teacher of what she'd told Amina the other day. The
teacher tries to behave nice and convinces Amina that she will put Amina's
picture next to the others'. During the two discussions the teacher and Amina
are having, the teacher is having a hard time justifying what she is actually
doing. She gives no particular reason for telling Amina to take home the picture.
Just as well as she gives no explanation for, why Amina can't draw patterns from
the Koran. Instead she tries to flatter Amina by telling her that she is good at
painting. Even more confused, Amina draws people instead. At school she's told
to draw people from the Christian Bible and at home she's told that's wrong. At
home her mom tells her to draw patterns ...This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!

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