"What is a hero without love for mankind..." Doris Lessing
Zinat (1994), by Ebrahim Moktari
List three poignant scenes
that were impotant:
The scene where Zinat’s mother-in –law leaves
the clinic after Zinat has treated a male patient. The mother–in-law overhears other patients laughing about his partial nudity and she leaves. From the very beginning, Zinat is torn between serving her patients or her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law stomps away of angrily and although Zinat is not happy, she stares at the back of the leaving woman. She looks as if she has lost her best friend. But she remains in the clinic. I believe it is here that Zinat has decided that she would not be able to abandon her medical career. The next is when her father has forbidden her to work, but she sneaks off to treat a patient, when she returns he beats her and locks her in her room, she cries like she would rather be dead the abandon her patients. The last is when her father burns her uniforms, she stares are him with great disappointment, and she throws her medical bag on the fire too, as if she lost all hope.
I did not understand why her parents sent her to medical school only to stop her practice knowing that another doctor will not come to their village for two years. They were not concerned with the health of others?
I would re-create the roll of Zinat's husband by having him create a plan where she could work at the clinic half of the day. He could have some poor village children come in and assist his mother with the housework. Because he already stood up to his family when he said, “Zinat or nobody”.
Zinat (1994), by Ebrahim Moktari
List three poignant scenes
that were impotant:
The scene where Zinat’s mother-in –law leaves
the clinic after Zinat has treated a male patient. The mother–in-law overhears other patients laughing about his partial nudity and she leaves. From the very beginning, Zinat is torn between serving her patients or her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law stomps away of angrily and although Zinat is not happy, she stares at the back of the leaving woman. She looks as if she has lost her best friend. But she remains in the clinic. I believe it is here that Zinat has decided that she would not be able to abandon her medical career. The next is when her father has forbidden her to work, but she sneaks off to treat a patient, when she returns he beats her and locks her in her room, she cries like she would rather be dead the abandon her patients. The last is when her father burns her uniforms, she stares are him with great disappointment, and she throws her medical bag on the fire too, as if she lost all hope.
I did not understand why her parents sent her to medical school only to stop her practice knowing that another doctor will not come to their village for two years. They were not concerned with the health of others?
I would re-create the roll of Zinat's husband by having him create a plan where she could work at the clinic half of the day. He could have some poor village children come in and assist his mother with the housework. Because he already stood up to his family when he said, “Zinat or nobody”.
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