Beginning and end

The novel "Beginning and End" - PDF On the evening of the next day, no one remained in the house except its family members, and the furniture of the deceased's room was gathered in a corner and its door was closed. The children gathered around their mother, feeling that it was time for them to listen to her. And the mother knew that she should speak, and she was not confused about what to say; she had thought and pondered for a long time, and perhaps nothing bewildered her more than this contradiction between her outward appearance, which indicated firmness and strength, and her inner self, which was filled with mercy and compassion for her miserable family. She lowered her eyes, controlling her gaze directed towards her, and said: "Our calamity is great, we have only God, and God does not forget His servants." Poverty may be deadly without mercy; a killer of life, hope, ambition, and honor. Thus began and ended the tragedy of the "Kamel Effendi Ali" family; it started with the sudden death of the father, the head of the family, who provided her with a modest amount of a decent life, and his death ended that life, beginning a new life built on poverty, sin, and her selfish daughter. Harsh economic and social conditions during World War II struck the Egyptian society, affecting a family consisting of one daughter, three sons, and a mother. The daughter, "Nafisa," resorted to sewing and then turned to sin; the eldest son, "Hassan," resorted to crime and thuggery; while the middle son, "Hussein," sacrificed his ambition for higher education and studying medicine to work as a modest employee. As for the youngest son, "Hussein," he was the family's hope for success, and with his brothers' help, he managed to enter the military college, but selfishness overtook him, and he saw his brothers as a shame to him.