Handout 3:
1) Character
by Taslima Nasrim
You’re a girl
and you’d better not forget
that when you step over the threshold of your house
men will look askance at you.
When you keep on walking down the lane
men will follow you and whistle.
When you cross the lane and step onto the main road
men will revile you and call you a loose woman.
If you’ve got no character
you’ll turn back,
and if not
you’ll keep going
as you’re going now.
2) My first impression of this poem was that it would be good for any girl to read, and it would probably make them reflect on their character. If only all girls realized that men will do whatever you let them, but if you don't let them you can not only respect yourself, but the men will respect you to. You will be able to walk by the men without worrying about what their saying, and eventually they will stop saying profane things.
3) That a girl can not forget that as soon as you leave the house some man is going to say something to you, and try and get your attention. When you don't give them what their looking for they will insult you, and some girls will cave in and do what they want. But those girls that don't can keep walking until they find the good one.
4) I believe that the narrator is the author Taslima Nasrim, and she is speaking to all girls living. The author is probably speaking for a grown up point of view, to a younger girl who still has some maturing left to do. The relationship is strictly that the speaker or author was at the point of life the girl was some years previous.
5) I think the poem is about girls becoming promiscuous because they are being wrongly influenced by men who don't mean anything. The need to stand your ground and what for something that is actually real.
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