A Handful of Dates

This young boy used to walk around the village with his grandfather who he looked up to and who he liked to spend his time with. He thought that his grandfather was respectful and generous. Later on, he finds out that his neighbour, Masood, who looked very poor owned the land he used to play on, but now his grandfather owns most of the land. When they started the harvesting of dates, he thought about Masood and his grandfather. Soon after the dates were all harvested, and they were split up. Masood was left with none instead of the little bit he normally got. The boy started to realize that Masood was a good guy and he ended up with nothing, but the person who he looked up to the most was the bad guy in this scenario. His grandfather only cared about money while Masood loved the land, and the actual dates. The young boy was upset by the end of the story at the way he treated Masood and how he treated money like the most important thing in the world. His opinion on his grandfather changed in a bad way by the end of the story.