Sayana McLeish

Sayana McLeish November 10, 2014 Prof Liff RDG 101 “The Telephone,” by ANWAR F. ACCAWI In “The Telephone,” Accawi tells of his childhood in the town of Magdaluna. A small town where they had no concept of time and just lived by the days. He described the setting of where the story had taken place-which creates the felling of something real. The village of Magdaluna was overcome by the telephone. The villagers did not have much, and technology was very new to them. They judged time by certain events that happened. For example, an earthquake, or the birth of an important person would be sufficient to get a feel of time concepts. The children would play in the streets and run errands for the grown-ups for small sums of money. Though Accawi was content with his life the telephone ruined it shortly after it was invented. This change was surely a bad thing to him because he had fun without all the advantages of technology. He assumed everyone else was happy as well without the telephone. However, when the telephone came, it changed their lives forever. On the other hand, the telephone brought so many opportunities for the villagers. The whole village would sit by the phone and wait for it to ring and bring them news, and opportunities to make money. Thereafter the people of Magdaluna almost started worshiping the phone. The crowd around the phone started growing larger and larger. Once they receive new job opportunities they would leave the village. This was upsetting to a lot of people in Magdaluna, but, more importantly Accawi. He felt that it was disturbing their way of living, and taking them away from a life that they enjoyed. Also, Accawi described Im Kaleem as not being a