Half a Day

by Naguib Mahfouz

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Half a Day Questions and Answers

What symbols can be found in "Half a Day"?

What is meant when the narrator of "Half a Day" says, "there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home"?

Describe the narrator's attitude toward schooling.

What does the boy feel toward the world outside in "Half a Day"?

Would you agree that "school is the factory that makes useful men out of boys?"   Explain.

What can be learnt from "Half a Day" by Naguib Mahfouz?

What are three examples of foreshadowing in Half a Day and where are the specific lines?

In the story, the narrator goes into school and doesn't do something that normal school children do, yet leaving school, he feels different. How? 

In "Half a Day," what is the concept of time and how does it connect with death?

What does the narrator's choice of words tell you about his emotions on the first day of school in "Half a Day"?

How does "Half a Day" present a link between the distant past and the present?

What are the rhetorical questions the boy utters in "Half a Day"?

What things does the narrator experience in school in "Half a Day"?

What does the woman in charge of the school say to the narrator in the story "Half A Day"?

Who took the boy to school in "Half a Day"?

How does Mahfouz uses elements of surrealism and setting in "Half a Day" to communicate his message to the reader?

How does Half a Day reflect education in today's world?

Is Naguib Mahfouz against the modern school system in the story "Half a Day"?

Which blurred memory does the narrator have of his early days?

I am looking for the morals of Half a Day. Where can I find them?

Where can I find the e-texts of Naguib Mahfouz?

How can I write a research paper on "Half a Day"?