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Themes In 'Weddings And Beheadings' By Hanif Kureshi

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The short story “Weddings and beheadings” is written by Hanif Kureshi in 2006. The themes of his work both in general and in this short story illuminate topics which society perceives as tabooed. This story deals with a person forced to record beheadings of people and the consequences associated. The story takes place in an unknown setting. But the actions taking place in this story points out that the setting is somewhere in the Middle East. The cynicism, frequency and brutality behind these beheadings reminds of the global issues of terrorism which is ravaging in the Middle East today. In addition to this, another evidence of this particular setting is the gear they are using to make the beheadings and that can be seen from the following quotation.” The cameras are good quality; they’re taken from foreign journalists”. This quotation emphasizes that the cameras are taken from foreign journalists. If that quotation is compared to the situation in the Middle East today the probability of these journalists being former victims are extremely high, since terrorist has reached a high amount of notoriety for beheadings of journalists in the Middle East. Hanif Kureshy has written this short story in a very …show more content…

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