1. You Are the Author: Creating Chapter Titles
Name: Norien Reyes 8-73
When an author creates chapter divisions, they must make several choices. Sometimes they
choose to simply number the chapters. This might be because they want readers to think for
themselves. Other times they use chapter titles to set the scene, create curiosity or foreshadow
upcoming events.
In this activity, you will take on the role of the author and create a title for each of the 15
chapters in Iqbal. Your titles should be what you think Fatima would have chosen as an
appropriate title to reflect and represent her experiences. Then you need to make 2-3 point form
notes which explain the events which made you think of this title.
Chapter Title Point Form Notes
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1 “A Normal Day for a Child
Fatima describes where she lives and why she
is at the carpet factory
• She describes daily work conditions and who
Labourer” she works with, the numskulls
• Iqbal arrives
2 “The Day Iqbal Arrives”
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Normal day, working and making carpets
Iqbal arrives and surprises everyone with his
skillful work and talent
•
3 “A Hidden Secret, Revealed”
Iqbal talks about his life before he became a
child labourer and why his family got their debt
• He tells the children that they will never pay off
their debt
• Iqbal plans to escape and tells Fatima about it
4 “His Hidden Talent”
• The children are surprised because of what
Karim tells them, how Iqbal made a blue
Bukhara (hard carpet)
• Iqbal tells them their debt will never be paid
off or cancelled
• Iqbal will do something un-peaceful
5 “Iqbal’s Plan and The
• Foreign buyers arrive at the carpet factory,
Hussain and his wife acts nice to the children
• Iqbal cuts carpet in half
Revealing of Hussain’s Mask” • Iqbal gets dragged to the Tomb by Hussain
6 “Thanks Friends”
• The workers were talking and describing the
Tomb
• Fatima, Salmon, and Ali convinced Karim to go
with them to the Tomb to help Iqbal
• They sneak off to the Tomb and give Iqbal
water and bread
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7 “He Reached the Street and •
3 days later Iqbal is released from the Tomb
Everything was the same, except something
changed, the atmosphere in the workshop
Disappeared” • Iqbal escapes

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8 “The Seeds Iqbal had Sown”
Iqbal was sent back to Hussain because the
police got bribed in to it
• Hussain sees Maria’s carpet and sentenced her
to the Tomb
• Salman and the other children stood up to
Hussain and said “if you send her, you have to
send us too
•
9 “A Voice We Had Never Heard
Iqbal tells the children about his journey in the
market and the speaker he saw
• He shows them the slip of paper he got from
Before” the speaker
• They find out Maria can read and talk
10 “We Played Our Parts
• Maria started teaching the other children how
to read
• Once they learned how to read, they
Enthusiastically” understood the paper and read an address
• Salman and Mohammed got into a ‘fight’ and
from all the confusion, Iqbal escapes once
again
11 “We’re Finally Free!”
• Iqbal came back and brought the Bonded Labor
Liberation Front with him and put Hussain in jail
• The children went to the BLLF headquarters
and got cleaned up and fed
• The children were free and Iqbal, Fatima, and
Maria flies a kite together
• Iqbal convinced Eshan Khan to l let Maria,
12 “Convinced” Fatima, and him stay, after an argument
• Iqbal helped close down a lot of carpet
factories and even got hurt
• Iqbal gives a speech and named names
• “they” bomb the headquarters because of what
Iqbal said
13 “Please. Don’t Tell Anybody”
• Iqbal was telling Fatima about the conditions
people were in, in the brick kiln
• Iqbal talked to the children and found out
about their never ending debt
• Iqbal and people from the BLLF got chased out
by a gun and Iqbal was scared for the first time
and told Fatima
14 “Different Futures?”
• Iqbal finds out that he receives a ‘Youth in
Action’ Reebok award and has to go to America
and Sweden
• Fatima goes home to her family
• Fatima’s brother, Ahmed, plans to take her and
her younger brother, Hasam, to Europe
• Fatima gets a letter from Maria
• In the letter Fatima receives from Maria, it says
15 “Never Forgotten” that Iqbal went to visit his family for Easter
• Maria writes what Iqbal did in his hometown
and how he got shot
• Maria didn’t believe Iqbal was dead and 2
weeks later a guy that escaped from a carpet
factory comes and that reminded Maria of Iqbal
• Iqbal was murdered on Easter Sunday, 1995
Epilogu
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“Mysterious Murder” • Lahore Pakistan
• Killed by Carpet Mafia and is still not found
• His name is the symbol of battle to liberate
children from slavery