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Finding Nouf
5
Call to Adventure
Refusal of the Call
He must "find Nouf."
"(S)he had runaway--to the desert, no less--leaving everything behind: a fiance, a luxurious life, and a large, happy family. . . . Why? he wondered. Nouf was only sixteen. She had a whole life in front of her."
"For the sake of modesty, (Nayir) tried not to imagine her face. . ."
(Muslim men do
not allow themselves
to look at women
not of their own
family.)
"When Othman had
phoned and told him about his sister Nouf's disappearance, . . . Nayir knew Othman was crying. . . .
Nayir said he would assist."
Ordinary World
Nayir doesn't feel
comfortable looking
for a woman he's never
met before, but he
agrees to help his friend.
Nayir
=
Palestinian man,
orphaned at
young age,
raised by
Bedouin Uncle
in Saudi Arabia.
Works as a desert tour guide.
"The Bedouins had taught him how to interpret
the shapes (of the sand dunes) to determine the
chance of a sandstorm or the direction of
tomorrow's wind."
Nayir meets a very unusual
MENTOR.
She is Miss Hajizi,
an unmarried
woman working
in the Medical
Examiner's office.
She will challenge his beliefs
on how a proper
Muslim woman
should behave.
vs.
Finding
Nouf
Crossing the Threshold
Nayir has to pick up Nouf's dead body from the Medical Examiner's office. There, he finds out that the unmarried, 16 year old girl may not have been virgin, that she drowned in the desert,
and that she has other wounds inconsistent with a simple drowning. He begins to wonder if Nouf was murdered.
Against his better judgement, Nayir begins to investigate Nouf's death in order to uncover the truth.
Into the
Special World
To learn the truth of Nouf's death, he will have to invade the "world of women," which is so foreign to him.
- He will learn more about the Shrawi Family to which Nouf belonged.
- He will also learn more about Miss Katya Hijazi, to whom his friend Othman Shrawi is engaged.