Half a day By: Naguib Mahfouz

I thought that this was a little confusing. If we hadn't read it aloud in class and had side discussions and certain explanations then i don't think that i would have been able to follow along. I did think that he did a good job of explaining his feelings without being extremely blunt, he made the reader aware that he didn't like school but that after awhile there were some enjoyable things and then there were less enjoyable things. When he decided to switch from past tense to present tense i got a little lost and then he kind of went back to past tense but only for a little. I felt like i had a beginning and an end but the middle was just empty. I wasn't filled in on any part of his life between going to school and graduating. I wish that there was a sort of sense of age. I think we could tell how young he was in the beginning but after while i got lost and it became harder to tell.