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The Seven Steps

Written by: Mozhgan Babamarandi
Illustrated by: Zahra Muhammadvand
Publisher: Soroush
Category: Children / Young Adults
Year: 2012
64 Pages,
Dimension:12x21
ISBN:978 96412027776
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This collection includes six stories with different themes. Poetic themes heard in the "Crowd of Silence" and "Crow You heard Singing". The grandmother's loneliness theme in The Story "My Eyes on Your Window". The mysterious theme of life for everyone in the story "Everything was a mystery", the teenage savage theme in the story "Why you never reach the seventh step?", and the emotional divorce theme in families in "My father does not like to wait standing in the Line". These are common themes for teens in all societies. Whether in a develop-ing country like us or in advanced countries. When a writer who loves her job, practically spends eight hours a day with teenagers, although she is not conscious of the fact, she will able to choose from among many influen-tial themes. The story ""My father does not like to wait standing in the Line/My daddy does not like the queue", is based on Albert Camus’s famous quotation, “Writing is the same as jumping out of the line of dead people”. Here, a father is an artist who intends to draw pictures and this way “jump out of the line of the line of dead peo-ple” by drawing and painting images from Shahnameh stories by Ferdowsi. The mother, a university professor, is tired of her husband’s laziness as she has to shoulder all the household responsibilities and chores by herself/ alone. The narrator of the story quotes the mother as saying: “I will run out of patience any day now.” The nar-rator describes the father's snoring and various types of queues, including the waiting in a line to buy bread, the queue for failing the College Entrance Exam. Now the narrator’s classmate comes to see her. She is surprised that her friend (the narrator) has a talent for writing and admires her. At the end the three of them walk through the yard filled with dried leaves, lizards, beetles and bugs to reach their daily routine jobsite while the father is still snoring. In the story “Why you never reach the seventh step? ” Sheyda as usual is trying to spoil the classroom tranquility by bringing to the classroom (with her) a small metal owl during the Arabic Class. The owl makes lots of noise. But when she comes to school, she is surprised to finds out that the school is weird. She sees her best/intimate friend, Ely, and is told that their Arabic language teacher, Miss. Noushi, is dead. She remembers noticing a feath-er on Miss. Noushi’s dress last session, and she had secretly written a note before passing it to Ely, saying “Miss Noushi is dead and is now in heaven”. They all go for her funeral to cemetery “Behesht-e Zahra”. Over there she notices Miss Noushi’s family who are there. She notices that the teacher’s daughter is exactly her own/their age. Feeling guilty while bringing out the small metal owl, she throws it away on the mud. The owl is buried with Miss Noushi. They all get on the bus to go back.

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