Short Novel "The Broken Wings" summary and Presentation wrote by Khalil Gibran

1. Assalam-Alaikum
I am Mudassir Iqbal
Hope you all will be fine and healthy
Start with the name of ALLAH, the sustainer of the world

2. The Broken Wings
Khalil Gibran

3. ““Lets go of your story so the
universe can write a new one
for you”
Marianne Williamson
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4. Writer of the story
Khalil Gibran was a
Lebanese-American
writer
 Born in 1883 in a village of the Lebanon
 Artist, Poet, Essayist, Novelist and
philosopher.
 Khalil Gibran immigrated with his family to
the United States in 1895.
 Died in 1931.
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5. THE BROKEN WINGS
 Broken Wings is a poetic novel written in Arabic language
 first published in 1912
 Original Title : ‫المتكسرة‬ ‫األجنحة‬
 The book highlights many of the social issues , including
religious corruption, the rights of women, and the considering
up of wealth and happiness.
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6. Main Characters
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Salma
karamy
(Main
Character)
Represent
Women
Subjugation in
society
Khalil
Gibran
(Narrator)
Faris
Karamy
(Father of
Salma)
Represent
traditional
,conservative
role of father
Mansoor
Ghalib
(Cruel Husband
of Selma)
Represents male
hegemony

7. Summary
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It is a tale of tragic love, set at the turn of the 20th century in Beruit.
A young woman, Selma Karamy, is engaged to a prominent religious man's
nephew. The a young man that Gibran perhaps modeled after himself falls in love
with this woman. They begin to meet in secret, however they are discovered, and
Selma is forbidden to leave her house, breaking their hopes and hearts.

8. Gibran touches a variety of subjects like
• Love
• Troubles of women
• False values on which human societies are built
Main Themes

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WOMEN INFERIORITY IN SOCIETY
 Sex-Objects
 Women Subjucation
 Culture barrier

10. Conclusion
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Let women be provided with living
strength of their own. Let them have
the means to attack the world and
wrest from it their own subsistence,
and their dependence will be
abolished.
Simon de beaviour

11. Thanks!
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