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| Foreign Texts (FT) |
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| (1) Button Button | A couple comes across an offer of a getting a big amount for pressing a button, which would result in killing a person somewhere in the world. The wife accepts the offer and gets insurance of her husband who apparently dies as a result of pressing the button. |
| (2) Clearing in the Sky | A father narrates to his son how sheer out of his dedication and hard work he cultivated a piece of land at a very difficult mountainous location. |
| (3) Dark they were and Golden-Eyed | The earth has been destroyed and the mankind has started a new life on Mars. One man keeps trying to go back to the earth despite the opposition of everyone, but one day decides to stay where he is. |
| (4) Thank you Ma’am | A woman treats a child with love and affection who tried to snatch her handbag to buy suede shoes. |
| (5) The Piece of String | A poor villager is falsely accused of stealing money. He spends all his life in clarifying his position but nobody believes in him until after a flood sweeps away everything except his grave. |
| (6) The Reward | A boy wants to be an acrobat and is successful in achieving his goals after consistent efforts and after facing a lot of difficulties. |
| (7) I Have a Dream | An abridged version of Martin Luther King’s speech about freedom and equality for all mankind. |
| (8) The Use of Force | A sick child is not willing to let the doctor examine her throat. The doctor has to use force to examine the child’s throat and prescribe the medication. |
| (9) The Gift of the Magi | A poor young girl sells her beautiful hair to buy a strap of watch which was the most valuable asset of her husband. On the other hand, the husband sells the same watch in order to buy golden hair clips for his wife. |
| (10) The Angel and the Author—and Others | At a Christmas Eve, the writer humorously and sarcastically talks to the Recording Angel about the details of his trivial acts of charity in order to be rewarded hereafter. |
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| Local Literature |
| (11) The Gulistan of Sa’adi | Short stories in classical Iranian context to highlight wisdom of everyday life. |
| (12) The Foolish Quack | A foolish villager tries to treat people without using common sense and receives punishment by people after killing sick woman. |
| (13) A Mild Attack of Locusts | Apparently in a colonial context, a white family, with the help of local population, tries to save the crops from the attack of locusts. They could not save them completely but still they are contented that they could save some part of their assets. |
| (14) God be Praised | A poor clergyman finds it hard to keep both ends meet. He spends whole of his life expecting God to sort out his difficulties, especially the marriage of his daughters. Apparently it seems to happen. |
| (15) Overcoat | A well-dressed young man meets his end while he was strolling on the mall. During his postpartum, it was discovered that under his precious overcoat he was in rags. |
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