“The Rat Corridor… a nightmarish idea to live in darkness and gloom and dirt in ignorance and backwardness, but Qomndan tyrant.”.”
Menna, a 14 year old girl. A member of the Don Bosco Book Club. Her hobby is reading, she became a good critic and acquired an opinion about what she reads. Her belonging to the club helped her develop an ability to read colours of literature to strengthen her sense of criticism. She is supported by her parents to continue and become stronger.
Within the events of the “Chance for Tomorrow” project, a “Book Club” was formed. It helped children develop reading skills, appreciate its importance, and sense the existence of life inside a book. She narrated a critique of Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq novel “The Rat Corridor”. The novel represents reality in a symbolic way.
When you deprive yourself and those who are around you from light, while others monopolize it. Without convincing reason, an entire society lives in darkness and injustice, refusing to accept otherwise, even if it were light! Those who revolt or disagree on darkness and injustice; those who try to open eyes on their right to see the light are treated as rebels and insubordinates. To accept unjustly robbing rights, given to you by God. To consent to it, this is the tragedy of “The Rat Corridor”.
The poet did not succeed in the diversifying his narrative methods. He relied on more than one narrative method rather than a dialogue, which causes the reader to become distracted. Prolonging the narration at the beginning of the novel, delving into the details of the lives of the main characters; especially “Rami”; repeating the harassment scenes between the doctor and Faten in his office more than once. In addition, prolonging in parts such as the fear of the falling of a meteorite and its consequences did not satisfy me. It was just a banal narrative tool only.”
