Blinded by the Light - Conflicted Aspirations and Family Expectations
Malik:
Where did you get the money to buy these tickets?
Javed:
I earned it, at the Herald.
Malik:
You told me that they didn't pay you. Your mother has been working night and day for this wedding, and you had money to waste?! This has gone too far. Give me those tickets.
Javed:
No! They're mine! It's my money! I can't wait to get away from here. I want to go to university.
Malik:
You will go to university in Luton.
Javed:
Luton doesn't even have a university! But Manchester University, they want me!
Malik:
You will not go to Manchester, you will not go anywhere! Give me those tickets!
Javed:
NO!! I bought them with money I earned as a writer. My words paid for these.
Malik:
GIVE ME THOSE TICKETS!
Javed:
NO!
Malik:
HERE, GIVE ME THOSE TICKETS!
Shazia:
No, Dad! Stop!
Noor: [trying to intervene]
Please, stop!
Javed: [Malik forcibly snatches the tickets from Javed's hands and rips them up]
Dad, get off me!
Noor:
Please stop! What are you doing?
Malik:
What did I say? Huh?! You are not British! So stop acting like a gora. You are Pakistani, you are my son!
Javed: [furiously shoves Malik away; brief pause; storms out of the house]
I DON'T WANNA BE YOUR SON!!!!! I wanna be more than that!
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Blinded by the Light - A Father's Doubt About Writing Aspirations
Javed:
Dad, I want to be a writer.
Malik:
Writing isn't a job.
Javed:
It can be!
Malik:
Name me one Pakistani writer. Just one!
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