questions for 7daughters & 7 sons (1-28)

1.)What impacts of Quran on Arabic literature can you sought out in this book. Think of the beginning/ start of the book?
A:The Quran is impacted on the literature in this book, mainly when the character are thankful for everything. And the Quran tells us to be thankful for everything Allah Has given.
2). How is Islam influenced by this text. Give 3 instances/moments where this happens. 
A: One example is When Fatimah in the beginning of the story tells Buran That "Allah Will provide for us"
A second is when the Uncle tells the father that" Allah Has blessed him beyond his beliefs" that's he thankful for what Allah gave him. Another is when the mother is telling her daughter to have faith in Allah and not complain. In Islam we Believe in Allah And Only Allah! 
3. Why is Fatimah crying? What ill-fate is the narrator talking about?
A: she was devastated when she heard her uncle's words about her an her sisters. How nobody wants to marry them because of them being poor. Now she lost fate in getting married.  
4. Burhan is talking to herself, after having a short conversation with her father. She says, " It wouldn't have been  a mistake three hundred years before, or two hundred years before, or even hundred years before". What is she referring to here? What was the short conversation father and daughter had?
A; She's refering to Back in history when the women could of accomplish anything they have dreamed of. And if they were in those days Buran could have help herself and family.

To be or Not to be

Being a Somali muslim girl living in America, you sometimes find yourself wondering if you can fill the gap between your parents and the american culture. You sometimes ask yourself?, can you be a somali muslim girl while you can still have your "somali" values and mingle it with the american culture?. I think it's possible, beacuse i consider myself to be an american. You don't have to isolate one culture and embrace the other while your living in another country. You have to balance things out and "shape" and customize your identity. I'm not saying that you have to change yourself in order to fit the norm, but rather, not to act deaf, dumb, and blind.