Fly Hasina Fly: She did!
We have experienced narratives that stereotype women as an angel in the house, an epitome of love and sacrifice and ruled by conscience and responsibilities.
Anees Salim takes the reader through the thoughts of a teenage girl, Hasina, in his novel 'Fly Haseena Fly'. She is enriched with mischief and naughtiness in the middle of her hard life. Forced to be a bread winner, Hasina, does the tedious job of vending coffee and tea at an airport. She never hesitates to take vengeance on anyone who stands on her way. It was her practice, serving one such costomer of her with moth balls mixed to it.
Hasina is an amalgam of sacrifice and selflessness in the first sight. The burden of her family, educating her siblings, spending her life behind the boredom of the vending machine, begs the sympathy of the reader. She was invited by her boss, Haji Usman, to his daughter's wedding. She was elevated when she received the Invited. Soon she recognises that her place falls again behind a vending machine, not of tea but of juice, which shows the discrimination that prevails in the the society.
Gradually, as the plot is unfurled, the real self of Hasina is unveiled. She manages to get educated, she was ready to date with her love, Eza, on a Valentine's Day and she even misleads his parents on phone in guise of an unknown lover.
They say 'where there's a will there is a way'! In Hasina's case, she paved her way to fulfill her dream. When the narrative ends, Hasina is found catching the flight by faking the identity of her twin sister'. Religious ideologies, conscience or emotional attachment didn't stand on her way towards her dream.
Her life remains as an intriguing question in the mind of the reader! Was she right or wrong?
Ms. Saritha. K
Assistant Professor and Head, Dept of English, Al Shifa College of Arts and Science, Kizhattoor, Perinthalmanna.
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