Summary Of Hijab To School

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The story is about a sixteen-year-old named Amal Mohammed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim. Amal is an Australian-Palestinian-Muslim girl who lives in Melbourne with her father and mother. During the second semester at McCleans Preparatory School, Amal can’t decide if she should or shouldn’t wear the hijab as a full timer. While she is stuck on the decision she asks for advice from her best friends Yasmeen and Leila from her Islamic junior high school. When she told her parents her idea of wearing the hijab, they ask her if she was sure that she wanted to deal with such a big change in her life. As a test-run, Amal goes shopping with her mom while wearing the hijab. After three hijab-wearing women say “Assalamu-Alaikum” to Amal, she gets a sense that wearing a hijab binds Muslim women together and she feels much more prepared to continue full-time.

The next day at school, Amal made a final decides to wear her hijab to school. Initially, she was not going to wear the hijab with that her peers including her chemistry partner and crush Adam- and her principal, Ms.Walsh, who was eventually persuaded by Amal’s parents to allow her to wear the hijab to school. Eventually, her classmates started to accept her decision and Adam and Amal started to become closer, their friends Simone and Josh begin to flirt (despite …show more content…

At the party, Adam tries to kiss Amal, but at the last moment, she backs away and tells him that she does not believe in having any physical/personal relationships with a male before marriage. They began to argue and the discussion ended when he said that they are “too different”and “don’t understand each other”. As Amal was infuriated, she leaves the party. At school, when Amal saw Adam she noticed there wasn’t a “spark” their anymore but is proud that she put her religions before her

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