Nawadbin the Electrician Analysis

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I believe that throughout the story of Nawabdin Electrician by Daniel Mueenuddin portrays a story about a middle class man and the importance of having a job to provide for his family. This story made me realize that some people would put their life on the line for their job. If Nawabdin’s motorcycle did get stolen and he didn’t protect it he would not be able to provide for his family especially thirteen children along with himself and his wife. I do believe that Nawabdin’s characterization is truthful in the nature that he is a loving honest family man and without a doubt a hard dedicated worker. When he received his new motorcycle making his transportation easier he now has time to spend with his family and is generally grateful and enjoys it. I find this story to be an emotional story filled with a sympathetic viewpoint. Nawabdin was a poor man that did what he needed to do to provide for his family. As a middle class citizen I understand the struggle in which if you do not have a job you do not have anything. In the story Nawabdin explicitly says to his boss that he needs a motorcycle instead of the bicycle he has been using because the workload is spread across a large land stretch. “ Sir as you know the lands stretch from here to the Indus and these lands are fully seventeen tube wells and but these seventeen tub wells there is only one man”…” If I had a motorcycle then I could somehow limp along, at least until I train up some younger man”. He needed the proper equipment to fulfill the task. Also Nawabdin states that he also needed essentials to provide for his children. “ No moneylender in his right mind would, at any rate of interest advance a sufficient sum to buy the necessary items for each daughter: beds, a dresser, trunks, electric fans, dishes etc.….” Providing for a family can be very difficult at times especially a family with thirteen

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