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TITLE:
“ L A P R I S O N N I E R E ”


AUTHOR:
Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi.

GENRE:
Drama

THEME:
True story

CHARACTERS:
King Hassan II: He is the King of Morocco; He is so arrogant, powerful, strict, unfair, and vengeful. He doesn’t have any compassion and only see his own interests.

General Mohamed Oufkir: He is Malika´s father, he was Ambitious. He was the right hand of the king, he worked as a minister of defence and the chief of the armed forces. Oufkir betrayed the king when he organized a coup state and attacked the royal plane. General Oufkir was executed by the soldiers.

Soukaina: She is Malika´s mother, she’s strong and cheerful person.

Malika: She is the daughter of general Mohamed Oufkir
and Soukaina but she became the adoptive daughter of the king at age 5. She was taken into the palace as a child to be a companion to the king's daughter,princess
Amina. Although she led the life of a princess during these years, she always longed to go home to her real family. She went back to her parents when she was 16.

Abdellatif: He is a brother of Malika, he was a prisoner in the desert.

Myriam: youngest sister of Malika, She was a prisoner too.
SETTING:
The story happened in Morocco. Malika was living in the King’s Palace in 1958 – 1969. Then she returned to her parent’s house in Villa Yasmina in 1969 – 1972. Malika Oufkir and her family were initially confined to house arrest in a castle in the south of Morocco (Tamattaght) from 1973 to 1977; then they spent a total of 10 years in prison in the Sahara desert and finally got their freedom in 1991.

PLOT:
Malika’s childhood was more unusual because she was adopted at the age of five by King. Malika was taken into the palace
as a child to be a companion to the king's daughter, princess
Amina. When she was living in the kingdom she felt that she was already a prisoner. Then the King allowed her to return to his home. She was living with her parents for only 2 years. General Mohamed Oufkir who was the second most important man in the kingdom, tried to assassinate King Hassan II on August 16th in 1972. The the General Oufkir was executed and died with five bullets in his body. The King sent the family to live in exile in the worst conditions, where generally no body ever returned. Malika was incarcerated with her bother, sister and mother because her father attempted coup state.

RESOLUTION:
Finally the Oufkir family dug a tunnel with their bare hands and made a daring scape. Then they went to American Embassy for help. Later Malika and most of her family moved to France.



POINT OF VIEW:
I am not going to criticize but I think that the reading showed me a different perspective of lifestyle that exists in the world. I know that there are different cultures, languages and religions and we have to respect them and not to judge them.

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