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book: iqbal
How did Hussain describe the child workers to the foreign customers?
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Fatima is a child slave in Pakistan. Bonded to Hussain Khan three years earlier to pay a debt her parents owed the moneylenders, Fatima spends each day weaving carpets in a factory with other children. At the end of each day, if the work is up to his standards, Hussain Khan erases one of the lines representing Fatima’s debt from the slate that hangs above her loom. But somehow all the lines on Fatima’s slate are never erased, nor are any of the other children’s lines.
Iqbal is thin and sad, but somehow different. Despite being chained to his loom, he seems unafraid of Hussain Khan. He is talented and works more quickly and accurately than any other child in the factory. The night he arrives, he shares his story with the other children. They learn that Iqbal volunteered to be bonded to a carpet maker for $26 dollars so his father could purchase medicine for Iqbal’s brother. The child slaves tell him that he will soon pay off his debt and return home, but Iqbal denies it. The debt is never paid, he claims. Fatima doesn’t want to believe him. Iqbal secretly tells her that someday he will run away and take her with him.
Work continues as usual. Rumors circulate among the children that Iqbal is weaving a Blue Bukhara, a carpet with a particularly complicated pattern. Karim, the teenage overseer, believes that Hussain Khan will cancel Iqbal’s debt when he finishes the carpet. Iqbal continues to deny that the debt will ever be erased, and the children begin to resent him. Fatima, however, talks with Iqbal every night