1. Iqbal Novel Study Name: Kyia Giles
Quotable Passages Date: January 31 2012
TOTAL: ________/15 marks
* PASSAGE 1
“It means that this kind of life isn’t right. We should return to our families; we
shouldn’t be chained to our looms and forced to work like slaves.” Page 50
RESPONSE: The significance of this passage is that when Iqbal is saying this life isn’t right
he’s saying child labour isn’t right. Children shouldn’t be working from dawn the dusk
because there just kids they should being doing kid activities. When Iqbal says we
should be return to there families because there families care for them and love them
and well treat them like kids. All children should be able to be with a loving and caring
family that well protect them. Children shouldn’t be chained to there looms because
they are not animal or object we chained bikes and dogs not people because they are
living human beings that should be free ,playing with friends ,going to school not having
to work because there families are in debt. No child or even an adult should be forced to
work as slave because people don’t own other people and children. We are all equal no
one should be someone else is slave because they have more money than you that’s just
not right. We should be going to school and learning, flying kites with are friends we
should all have freedom.
PASSAGE 2
‘There was a precise rule among us: Never talk about the future. Not a single one of us
dared to say, “next summer,” or “in a year,” or, “when I’m grown up.” Oh yes, we
talked about things we liked to do, and we talked about the day our debt would be
cancelled. We talked that hope into the ground. But nobody really believed it. It was
sort of litany, a way to feel good. Otherwise what was left to us?’ Page 53
PASSAGE 3
“Fatima,” he said in a low voice, “next spring you and I are going to fly a kite.
Remember that, whatever happens.” Page 54
RESPONSE: PASSAGE 2
At the carpet factory no one never talked about the future because it was too hard to
talking about because the children don’t want to get there hopes up thinking about the
future than wake up the next day and see that nothing is changed. If you had a full day
to think about the future and how you can dream about your life being when your out

2. of the workshop all the wonderful things that would happened to you going to see a
movie for the first time, Waking up being at home with your families who loves you to
the fullest, going to school with your friends, flying a kite in the beautiful open blue shy.
But when you wake up and your life hasn’t changed your still working from dawn to
dusk, you don’t get fed enough, you’re treated like a nothing like your not important to
anyone. Wouldn’t that just be too painful to think about. But yes indeed they talked
about there debt being erase because it gave the children some hope to keep on
working to keep on trying because at the end of the day they are doing this for the
families and when all there debt is erased they can go back to that life they still kind of
have. But that’s only if there debt is erased and if it isn’t they be stuck at the carpet
factory and only god knows how all that’s going to be.
* Chapter 8 - PASSAGE 4
‘Before Iqbal’s arrival I had been resigned to my life. I couldn’t even imagine a
different one. Iqbal had sown the seeds of hope in all of us.’ Page 62
RESPONSE: Fatima is saying that before Iqbal came she had no hope of her old life that it
was slowly going away she never thought she would go back there. But Iqbal being that
brave kind of guy has sown the seeds in them and shown them that there is hope you
just got to believe. So now Fatima believes.