expalins the novel in detail. terms, similies used are also explained

1. THELASTMETAPHOR
BY USMAN ALI
Presented By
Naeem

2. ABOUT AUTHOR - USMAN ALI
 “The Last Metaphor” is a three act play written by Usman
Ali.
 Born in Mandi Bahuaddin, Punjab in 1978.
 Completed M.Phill in English Literature from the Punjab
University Lahore.
 He wrote the dramatic scripts for Hamlets madness at
British Councils celebration of Shakespeare's birthday.
 He also wrote a script of an imagined interview with Robert
frost in 2001 and also has on his credit an English
translation of a book of Gulzar “The Speaking Silence”
 He is currently associated with University of Gujrat and
University of Sargodha.

3. DEATH
 It's a poem written by Ted Hughes.
 Poet starts the poem with a question about life, about how
paltry it is.
 He writes I am like a magnet of the universe and have powers
of death.
 Life indeed an aberration.
 lts a soul talking that when I am alive in the body of a man he
dies and when I am alive in the body of the lady she dies.
 And now he is awake and immortal. Comparing and
contrasting immortality.

4. AUTHOR'S NOTE
 Couldn't write a word from two months.
 No one had read “The Guilt”.
 Characters of “The Guilt” are dying because of not being heard.
 Their fate can’t be changed.
 Drama starts by dissolving the shells of ego.
 Drama is intense than fiction or poetry.
 But “The Guilt” has not changed anything.
 People don't understand the true intensity of drama and affects on a society.
 Usman All had a dream about Mastana's work results.
 Phone rang up, it was a student wanted A do thesis on his work but Usman
All hang up the phone because students here do it for the sake of degrees
only.

5. MANDI BAHAUDDIN TO GUJRAT
 He heard sound of bone cracking in the bus.
 When the bus was on rest he saw it was a dog who was being
crushed by the van.
 Meanwhile another bus rolled over the face of the dog.
 Usman Ali was shunned over there.
 He was full of guilt he sat down and started writing a drama this
time it is titled "The Last Metahphor".

6. WHY DID USMAN ALI WROTE THIS?
Audience was not understanding the characters and characters
were dying for not being heard. Characters were breathing their last
but the audience was invisible. Where is the audience? Nobody knows.
Things were going completely against the will of the writer he wanted
to write but things were not cooperating. He wrote this to provoke
people's thoughts and vast their vision and to call them back for
theater's sake. He knew people were going away from literature and
are more into Arts just to complete their degrees. Usman Ali wanted to
make people realise that dramas keep the strength to change a society
but people are unable to recognize the perks of it and the sense of
society. He wants people to come to literature as it can be more fruitful
for the society.

7. ACT – 1
 It starts with a room and severe cold weather.
 Entrance of Jugnoo on the stage.
 Jugnoo and his mask carrying a dead body rapped in a white sheet.
 In the beginning, he doesn't show his face to the audience.
 Banka enters.
 *Conversations*
 Afraid of the door knocks. On the second knock he comes to know it was
an Electricity bill.
 Banka tells Jugnoo to be brave and break the wall of his fears, people in
town call him runway and loser police is searching for him everywhere .
 Banka asks about the dead body buyJugno doesn't tell anything.

8. ACT – 1
 Police captures some boys in the street everyone out there watching
cheap theatre without curtains.
 Banka doing his regular hair and washings.
 He is watching the whole scenario while cutting hairs of his cheeks
gently.
 Banka starts telling about his art and robe and well profession.
 Knock at the door again.
 Jugnoo takes out bottle of scent from his body and moves the dead
body.
 Banka goes to the kitchen and tell him about his father and
brother's death.

9. REVIEW
Usman Ali has a natural ability to describe human relations,
at least the men in the two plays I've read. In some ways they are
distant to my life but I easily recognize their humanity and their
feelings. I think Usman Ali lives in a society where experience is
immediate and direct, not mediated through technology and
gadgets. He has a working dramatic sense — the central
relationship in The Last Metaphor is the classical one that appears
often in Western theater and literature — Voltaire, Beckett,
Candide, Bertie Wooster, Laurie and Hardy and so on. I'm not
saying Usman Ali makes the same use of the relationship, but he
gives it a recognizable and usable foundation.

10. REVIEW
What is important about Usman Ali's work is
the raw experience he describes. The raw
experiences, the use of the dead body, are the sort
of things that stay in my mind. They seem to be
part of his strength. The main thing is Usman Ali's
natural talent which enables him to convey direct
experiences in a dramatic form.

11. THANK YOU