1. You Are the Author: Creating Chapter Titles
Name: Taylor Cunha 8-14__
When an author creates chapter divisions, they must make several choices. Sometimes they
choose to simply number the chapters. This might be because they want readers to think for
themselves. Other times they use chapter titles to set the scene, create curiosity or foreshadow
upcoming events.
In this activity, you will take on the role of the author and create a title for each of the 15
chapters in Iqbal. Your titles should be what you think Fatima would have chosen as an
appropriate title to reflect and represent her experiences. Then you need to make 2-3 point form
notes which explain the events which made you think of this title.
Chapter Title Point Form Notes
1 o Just another day • Fatima describes why she’s in the
factory
o Nothing special • Describes daily working conditions in
Lahore, Pakistan
o Fatima’s life story
• Everything will change when Iqbal
arrives
2 o Iqbal’s arrival • Iqbal arrived
• Iqbal talks back to master
o The day • Iqbal makes better carpets than
anyone else in the carpet factory
3 o Courageous • At night children talk to Iqbal
• Iqbal wants to run away
o Iqbal’s story • Iqbal tells them about his life
o Iqbal’s life
4 o Blue Bukhara • Foreign buyers were coming in three
days
o 3 days before • Iqbal makes rare blue Bukhara carpet
• Iqbal is being “good”
5 o The day that will be • Iqbal cuts rare blue Bukhara carpet in
half right in front of Hussian Khan
remembered • Hussian furiously threw Iqbal in Tomb
o The unknown plot • Iqbal planned to cut carpet but didn’t
tell anyone
o Speechless
6 o Delivery • Iqbal isn’t doing good in Tomb
• Children rebel and bring him food
o Rebellious • Karim goes along with it
o Speaking out
7 o I promise • Iqbal released from Tomb 3 days later
• Promises Fatima they’ll fly a kite next
o Next spring spring
2. • Iqbal runs away
8 o A new artist: Maria • Hussian doesn’t find Iqbal
• Iqbal returns with police that are
o Money changes minds bribed
• Iqbal thrown in Tomb
o Maria speaks out • Maria makes kite carpet instead of
assigned pattern
9 o A new voice • Maria can talk and she’s smart
• Iqbal tells children what happened
when he ran away
• Iqbal says there’s a new law: no child
labour
10 o Plan runaway: Confusion in the • Karim is now on the children’s side
• Children set up distraction and fight
courtyard • Iqbal runs away
o Fooled
11 o The day that changes • Iqbal comes with Eshan Khan and
frees children in Hussian Khans
everything factory
o Freedom at last • Hussian gets arrested
• Iqbal, Fatima, and Maria fly kite
o I kept my promise
12 o Your not the only ones • Iqbal wants to stay in headquarters
and free children
o Little adult • Iqbal frees a factory
o A new beginning for Iqbal • Headquarters get bombed at
13 o I get scared sometimes, too • Iqbal went to dangerous brick kiln
• Munshi shot at Eshan and group
o Fearless… sometimes • Iqbal admits he was scared
14 o “Iqbal in Action” • Fatima finds out her mother passed
away and returns home
o Award for the greatest • Iqbal won award of $15,000 from
Reebok “Youth in Action”
o Departure • Iqbal goes on plane& speaks in
o Forgotten Sweden
• Fatima receives letter after year before
she leaves to America with brother
15 o The letter • Maria finally writes Fatima
• Iqbal was shot and killed
o Better days • Dark and gloomy day
o“I don’t believe it” • Maria didn’t believe Iqbal’s death
Epilogu o RIP • Iqbal was murdered Easter Sunday
e • Eshan Khan says Carpet Mafia /
