A hand in the Grave
In the story " A Hand in the Grave" by Ghassan Kanafani, the author talks about two medical students and the mission that they partake one night. They are required to bring to school the following day a corpse so that it can be studied. Since neither of the two medical students can afford to buy a corpse, they decide to visit a local cemetery to dig one up. The story is read from the point of view of the first person style of writing. The conflict is dealt in a Man vs. Himself conflict. The characters in the story are the following: Nabile, who the story is told from his point of view, is a medical student. Suhail is another medical student who goes with Nabile to find a skeleton for his class. In the beginning of the story Nabile is at home talking to his sister. His father actually questions him as to why he is up so early in the morning. Nabile tells him that he is going to go out to look for a body for school. His father at first is not taken aback by the comment and actually thinks that his son is lying to him. His sister actually tells Nabile why he is lying to his father about what he is going to do. His son even says to him that if he is given a certain amount of money to buy one then he wouldn't have to go and find one
Suhail had stuck his hand inside the grave and was searching with his hands. They leave the grave without the corpse. He kept wheat and flour so that it wasn't stolen from him. He preaches to his sister that thieves get their due during life and even after death. He even starts believing that the grave was from a saint and he starts visiting it every dawn. The story has a few qualities of other horror stories like from Edgar Allen Poe's earlier works. His father assumes that it's just his son trying to get some money from him. Nabile is not able to stick his hands inside the coffin so he asks Suhail if he can. They both enter the cemetery and start looking for a grave that is at least twenty years old. Suhail is screaming for his life and Nabile is able to drag him off the grave. When they finally clear up the earth they break a hole in the grave. He then realized to his horrors, that he had stuck his fingers inside the skulls eyes. Only towards the end do you realize that it wasn't a horror story at all.
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