I openly defied my father, I will never do anything to you” (Mahfouz, Half a Day). To this the Narrator's father responds that the purpose of this school was not to punish his son, but the purpose of the school is to make children into men. The father also asks the narrator if he doesn't want to be like his father and brothers. This is the first time that the idea of ​​an education transforming children into men is mentioned throughout the story “Half a Day”. The narrator begins this walk to school with doubt in his mind, stating, “I wasn't convinced. I didn't think there was really any point in tearing myself away from the privacy of my home and throwing myself into this building which stood at the end of the road like a huge fortress with high walls, extremely austere and sinister . » (Mahfouz, Half a Day). The immediate first impression is that the Narrator does not like the idea of ​​going to school and being made into a man. An intriguing section of the story reveals how this school was able to prepare the Narrator and other individuals in the most unlikely ways possible. “As our path revealed itself to us, we did not find it so completely smooth and clear as we had supposed..