Hello, I'm here to do a review of your short story. On the whole, it's a great story with a very important message, however there are a lot of issues that need to be dealt with.
First of all you spell Anjum with a lower case A several times, this is just a minor thing which needs fixing.
Secondly, I think you need to set the scene better by describing the events in more detail. You say "She got shocked after the argument," this sentence doesn't help show the reader ow the argument shocked her, it just says she's shocked, but a better way to tell the reader that would be to give a few lines telling what the other person said and what Anjum said in reply. This would also give you an opportunity to develop her character more.
When you describe the way that the men teased her before the rape, perhaps you could include details of what they said and descriptions of how they looked. This would help a lot to help the reader imagine what's going on and empathise with her.
I understand if you might not want to go into too much detail during the rape, but it would help the reader understand why she was driven to suicide if we were given some reference as to how humiliating and horrible it was.
I agree with Iggy that it is slightly unrealistic that no one would help her, that being said I know that it does happen. What is more unrealistic, in my opinion is that she wouldn't at least ask for some kind of help. I would suggest you add something like this, maybe she goes to her Mother and asks for help and she doesn't believe her, or says there's nothing she can do. Then you can use this incident to build up towards her killing herself. Also in your story I don't see how the father would have known that his daughter was raped, if she didn't tell anyone and he never found the men, he wouldn't know.
So this story could be great, it is sad and its message is important, but it doesn't make you feel sad, because there isn't enough emotion in it, we don't know enough about the character's feelings. If you change a few of these things and some grammar mistakes, it'll be much better
Points: 814
Reviews: 6
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