Section B Essay

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Section B 1. Write a summary of A Storm Gathering. - “A Storm Gathering” is about the most terrible storm in a small town in Sudan. It begins with a man named Malik owes a lot of medicine to the people of the village. There are many people who become seriously ill and is so sick that they are about to die. Malik had promised the population to prevent this, but Malik could not heal people. He did not have the medicine needed to heal people. Malik meets a female foreign doctor who has no medicine to the sick, but Malik is being tested to the medical assistants because they are helpless, and people get sick everywhere. Malik becomes frustrated because he can’t help the sick in the village. Malik's secretary says that Malik's boss is dead and the reason he died was because he got an injection of a female doctor. Malik and the female doctor is running out to find some food and some medicine, but while they are running Malik says that the storm might be last forever. 2. Characterize Malik. - Malik is a Muslim and he is from Sudan. He graduated from the Master of Science in Khartoum Universety. He makes it very badly when he can’t cure people of the village. He feels guilty when he can’t help those who need him and he knows that they will later die of their disease. Malik is a very concerned person, he is desperate to get hold of the medicine as the army comes in, so maybe he can heal people. He is impatient because he wants to heal people. 3. Comment on the role of the female doctor. - I would argue that the female doctor is more patient than Malik. She seems more confident as the doctor because she is not affected and just as frustrated as Malik does when they get told that a person is dead. Malik takes his work very personally and it makes the female doctor to act as if she did not take his work seriously, and because it did not touch her that someone dies.
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