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1.         SUMMARY A.          Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi Woman at Point Zero is a novel from Egypt author. The story about woman named Firdaus. Firdaus is the daughter of a poor farmer, her life is very complicated and conflicted. Since childhood Firdaus had undergone persecution physically and mentally by a man she knew as a father. Indeed, not only Firdaus who received bad treatment from her father's, but her mother also has never had a better fate than Firdaus. When the father and mother died, Firdaus in foster care by his uncle. Although his uncle was to be more kind and gentle than her father, but the figure of the gentle uncle was the same as any other man. His uncle did not miss the opportunity to sexually abuse her. Often uncle fumble Firdaus’s thigh while reading a book to her before or after Firdaus stay with him. Firdaus was taken by his uncle moved to Cairo and schooled in junior...

The story begins when the narrator reads something disturbing while riding the subway to school. The narrator is algebra teacher, exits the subway and continues towards his school, his fear and anxiety growing about the fate of his brother Sonny, who has been arrested for using heroin. Thinking of his brother reminds him of his students, who face limited possibilities in a hostile world. The narrator speculates that many of his students may already be experimenting with drugs like heroin. At the end of the school day the narrator listens to the laughter of his students for the first time and realizes it is mocking and cruel. As he exits, he is met at the gate of the school by one of Sonny’s old friends, a fellow addict, who has come to tell him about Sonny’s imprisonment. The narrator is repulsed by Sonny’s friend, who always asks him for money; nonetheless, he greets him. The narrator fails to write or visit his brother in prison until the death of his daughter, when he is finall...