-Khalil Gibran
Summary
This essay presents the situation of Syria. The narrator says that his decayed tooth had troubled him giving ache almost time, could not sleep. Being impatient, he went to the dentist to extract the tooth, but the dentist denied it and suggested to cure it, and the narrator agreed.
Then the dentist started curing the tooth drilling sides, cleaning cavities and filled with pure gold and said that it became even stronger than the old one. The narrator believed it but a week after the same tooth turned into diseased condition to torture him to agony (e). So, he went to another dentist to extract the tooth without any question and the dentist extracted it. The narrator (writer) thanked the dentist. But in many societies, many diseased teeth are decay, but they fill with the gold instead of extracting them. Decayed teeth glitter with gold, what an irony!
In Syria, there are many rotten and diseased teeth, but they fill with gold instead of extracting them and disease remains forever. Rotten teeth make the stomach sick; indigestion, but the Syrian children have decayed teeth and want to be good people tomorrow there. Wherever we visit people there, they are corruptive. The people in court promote corruption. People in the home are conceit, false and hypocrite. Poor people in huts are coward, ignorant and frightened. The dentists there spend whole time filling the decayed teeth. There are many conferences, they deliver public speeches but their sound becomes impolite, hoarse.
The Syrians gnaw bread with decayed teeth and mix with poisoned saliva and spread the poison in the nation’s stomach and they say, ‘Yes, but we are seeking better tooth fillings and tranquilizers.’ And if we suggest them to extract the decayed teeth, they laugh at us thinking that we have not learnt the art of dentistry that conceals disease. If we try to insist them, they comment ‘Many are the idealists in the world, and weak are their dreams’.
