Creative stunts
Task
1
A letter from
Nazneen’s sister Hasina.
Dear Nazneen, our mother is down with fever.
This leaves a lot of
work for me. There are food to be cooked and dishes to wash, tables to clean. I
was eavesdropping on a conversation where our dad said something about another
wedding. I am worried what happened to
you may happened to me. You know having a forced marriage. I do not know
what to do. I know that I cannot get married until I am 18 years old, but the thought
of being given away. Well it’s not something I look forward to.
The
food prices is getting sky high, and dad has to work twice as hard. More
than once he hasn’t come home. What he have told me he began to work in the
mines again. We had quite an argument, you see there have been quite recently a
few bombs near the roads, so naturally I was worried. I even said I was willing to go work in the carpet
factory, but our father denied me to do so.
You
are probably worried sick, that may be a reason to write you this letter
to stop you from doing something stupide. I am doing fine, I hope mom soon gets
better it would get a lot easier and I would go back to work and our economy
would be better. There are all sort of things to do before it gets to cold (the
winter). But you know all this, all the time you helped mom harvesting and
tending to the animals.
I hope we
keep in touch, but if you can do anything to maybe talk our parents out of
giving me away, it would mean a lot to me. I wish you all the luck in the world
and I hope we will see each other again.
