A Handful of Dates

The narrator of the story is a little boy who loves and admires his grandfather. His grandfather is like a father to him. He is always with him reading the Koran or talking. One day the boys respect and admiration towards the grandfather changed. The boy’s grandfather owned a field that grows date trees. When he and his grandfather went to see how the harvesting of the dates was progressing. That’s when one of the harvesters named Masood approaches the grandfather and asks him about the money he owed to him. The boy’s grandfather gets angry and yells at Masood for not having the money he owed him. Then the boy realizes how cruel of his grandfather and the real world.