A Handful Of Dates Paragraph

A Handful of Dates – Paragraph
The author Tayeb Salih has well developed physical and social setting in an implicit and explicit manner to establish the theme of rural life. Salih concentrated more on social setting than physical, when he was trying to clarify the theme of rural life to readers. The author translated physical setting as an implicit approach and social setting as an explicit approach. A physical setting quote used to demonstrate the theme rural life in Africa is, “he gaze at the strip of water that wound away eastwards and hid behind the thick wood of acadia trees.” This quote deciphers that in Africa there’s rural life that we don’t know and he explicated one, so that we get the point of country life. The author used illustration as one of the methods of development to explain this theme. A social setting that best depicted rural life in harmony was when clump of dates began to drop like something descending from heavens. In the following quote, Tayeb displayed social setting, by connecting natural products such as dates with rural life in Africa. The society in Africa is all about living in a rural lifestyle and for people like the little boy in the story; it would have felt like something descending from the heavens. Salih did a splendid job of spreading the words and phrases as a depiction of the precocious little boy and his countryside life settings. The author used many ways in many places to reveal the theme of rural life in Africa using physical and social setting as the key to symbolize and picture the short story’s main idea.