Seasons of Migration to the North

Who tells the story of Mustafa Sa'eed?

Where is the narrator from?

Where is Sudan located near?

Where did the narrator leave to attend school?

What degree did the narrator receive after completing school?

When Mustafa disappears who is left as the guardian of his two sons?

Where does the Narrator obtain a job and in what department?

How often does the Narrator return to the village?

When does the Narrator meet the mystery man, Mustafa Sa'eed?

What does the narrator figure Mustafa has selected him to do?

At the end, what does the narrator decide to do about his curiosity with Mustafa?

One of the men in the village who arrived several years after the Narrator's departure:

What is Mustafa's opinion on what the country needs?

How Mustafa view the narrators work?

Where did Mustafa have his own business?

After owning his own business where did Mustafa decide he wanted to go into?

Where did Mustafa grow up?

Who raised Mustafa as a child?

When Mustafa begins school what is he considered as?

After three years of school where is he sent to study?

After studying in Cairo where does Mustafa then study?

Who does he marry in London?

When Mustafa disappears what does he leave the narrator?

A boyhood friend of the narrator:

After elementary school with the narrator what does Mahjoub do educationally?

One of the local powers in the village?

What positions does Mahjoub hold?

What does Mahjoub do politically?

Wife of Mustafa?

Mother of Mustafa's two sons?

Guess What.

Women that Mustafa meets at a party in Chelsea located in London?

Who is the woman Mustafa is seeing, marries, and kills?

The sister of the narrator:

Has had eight husbands, all whom are dead?

What is Bint Mazjoub known for?

Only one to tell her brother (narrator) the details of the deaths of Wad Reyyes and Hosna:

Narrators family member who is over ninety-years-old?

What did the narrator enjoy from this grandfather as a child?

What does the grandfather do every day?

What are the grandfathers luxuries?

Lives in the village and is a friend of the narrator's family:

Brother of the narrator:

Shopkeeper in the village:

Eight-year-old son of Mustafa and Hosna:

Seven-year-old son of Mustafa and Hosna:

The village at the bend in the Nile?

City in Sudan mentioned:

Who is from the Khartoum area?

Where does the narrator work?

Where is the secondary school Mustafa is sent to study at?

When did Mustafa arrive in London?

Longest river in the world?

Where does the Nile run though?

Place where Hosna suggested he might find the answers of Mustada Sa'eed:

House in the village made of various rooms that were added whenever room was needed or extra money was available:

Site of gathering by the family and some of their friends:

Visited several times with references to the trial of Mustafa Sa'eed:

House in the village where the deaths of Hosna and Wad Rayyes occured:

Site around the village where numerous conversations between the narrator and Mustafa and Muhjoub:

Major theme of the book is the clash between:

What is the class of cultures also referred to as in throughout the book?

What are two things the narrator and Mustafa have in common?

What culture did Mustafa try to take part in?

How did Mustafa take part in Western Culture?

How did Mustafa effect the women he came around?

Which women did Mustafa marry while taking part in the western culture and admit to killing?

When returning to Sudan, after killing his former wife, what does he do?

Did the Narrator accept Western life?

What discussion was brought up at his grandfather's house on one of his visits?

The narrator says the old days of the father and brother approving the marriage should be over when:

Curiosity is a major theme of the book displayed especially by:

Why does the narrator feel Mustafa is hiding something?

How do the people the narrator meet view Mustafa?

What does the narrator find out about Mustafa's occupation and quest?

How does both the narrator and Mustafa feel about their actions and behavior in regards to their women?

How has Mustafa taken part in destructive behavior?

What does Hosna say she will do if she is to marry Wad Rayyes?

Two weeks after Hosna's threat what does she do?

What does the narrator do about the forced marriage in regards to Hosna's threats?

How did he force Hosna into her destructive behavior?

How does the narrator feel about Hosna's death at the end of the book while exploring the triangular room?

The narrators quest for information about Mustafa Sa'eed took a destructive bent at the end of the book how?

What choice does he make when he is swimming and almost drowns?

What point of view is the book written in?

What is a restriction involved in the use of first person?

How is the second chapter of the book told?

How does first person make the story more personal?

What events does the reader miss due to the use of first person?

Most of the novel takes place in various locations in:

Arrived several years after the Narrator's departure. He married one of the village women. Since he is a stranger to the Narrator, he is very curious about the man.

Chairman of the Agricultural Project Committee and the Co-operative. He is also a leader of the local National Democratic Socialist Party and serves on many delegations to government. He is one of the local powers in the village.

When she is forced to marry the old man, she carries out her threat and kills him and herself.

A woman that Mustafa meets at a party in Chelsea. She is one of the Women that Mustafa is seeing and, when she wants to get married, he marries her. She was killed by Mustafa.

The sister of the narrator. She has had eight husbands, all of whom are dead. She is known for her rough manly talk. She is the only one to tell her brother of the details of the murder suicide.

He is over ninety-years-old. His grandson always liked to hear his stories has he was growing up. The man tends to be rather acetic. His only luxuries are what he needs for prayers. He walks to the mosque every day for prayers.

Lives in the village and is a friend of the narrator's family. He has had several wives and wants to marry the widow. He is killed by her.

What fashion does the writer use so that the reader has to jump around in time putting together information about various characters when it is presented?

The language used in the book is full of _______.

There are some references to _____ and local terms that the reader must become familiar with while reading the novel.

How does the author present each chapter?

Each chapter begins with?

"As best I could I had answered their questions. They were surprised when I told them that Europeans were, with minor differences, exactly like them, marrying and bringing up their children in accordance with principles and traditions, that they had good morals and were in general good people."