اسم الطالب:صابرين صروج
اسم المشرف:د.نوال الشيخ
The symbolism of characters in Kanafani Novel “All That’s Left To You
all that’s left to you (Ma Tabaqqah Lakum) (1966) is set in a refugee camp in the Gaza strip. It deals with a woman, Maryam, and her brother, Hamid, both were orphaned in the 1948 war, their father died in combat---his last words being a demand that they abstain from marriage until the national cause has been won---and their mother separated from them in the flight from Jaffa.
She turns up in Jordan, they end up with an aunt in Gaza, and live united in a set of Oedipal displacements; Hamid seeks a mother-substitute in his sister, while Maryam entertains a quasi incestuous love for her brother.
Maryam eventually breaks the paternal prohibition to marry a two-time traitor, Zakaria, since he is bigamous, and because he gave the Isrealis information to capture an underground fighter, resulting in the latter’s death.
Hamid, outraged, tramps off through the Negev, aspiring to reach their mother in Jordan, the two episodes of Hamid in the desert, and Maryam in the throes of her relationship with Zakaria, are interwoven into a simultaneous cross-narrative: the young man encounters a wandering Isreali soldier who has lost contact with his unit, and wrestles his armaments from him, and ends up undergoing a kind of rebirth as he struggles with the desert. Maryam, challenged by her husband to abort their child, whom she will call Hamid, decies to save the child by killing Zakaria. This story won the Lebanese literary prize in that year.