When you are an immigrant, life can sometimes be hard. Are you supposed to follow your parent’s faith? Is it wrong to involve yourself in your native lands faith? What is right to do and what is wrong?
The text Pictures is a short story written by a Pakistani woman born in England. The story-teller is a 3. Person narrator, but we see the story through the main character’s eyes (Amina). The story takes place in an English town in the 1950s at Christmas time. The environment in the text is not wealthy. The main character lives in a store and her parents have to work very hard just to have enough to break even.
In the story the main character is a young Pakistani girl called Amina. As the text mentions on pages 2, line 28, Aminas’s clothes smell a bit bad. The room, she lives in, is a part of the store, so there is always a slight smell of food and cheap unguents. The smell she is carrying is a contributory factor in her kind of loneliness, because when she sits in buses and lifts, people always draw away from her.
In school the pupils are drawing Christmas cards with Mary and the infant Jesus, but because of Amina’s Pakistani background, her card is different from the other pupils. On her card the people are brown and on all the other cards they are white. Amina then asks the teacher to get her picture on the wall, but the teacher answers that she should take it home to her parents instead. It seems like the teacher is a bit confused about what she should do with Amina’s drawing. You cannot say that the teacher is mean to Amina, but in a lot of ways she still gets Amina to fell more different that what she is. Why could her picture not just be on the wall too? The teacher tackles the situation in a really bad way and looks a bit ignorant – like she not does know better.
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