A letter from Nazneen’s sister Hasina ( the book brick lane)

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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.