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“Firdaus’ voice suddenly fell silent, like a voice in a dream” (141). This imagery sums up Saadawi’s disconnect with Firdaus, like Firdaus’ disconnect with most people throughout the story. Everything that Firdaus has gone through is so hard to fathom, that it’s like a dream (or a nightmare). She knows that she cannot fully understand what Firdaus has gone through in her life. And now, she realizes that she will never truly understand, one because it’s so much to process and two because Firdaus is about to die. By ending the novel this way, she leaves the readers feeling the same way she felt when the conversation ended: discontent.

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"I moved my body like someone moving in sleep. What lay under me was not a bed, but something solid like the ground, and cold like the ground, yet with a coldness which did not reach my body. It was the cold of the sea in a dream. I swam through it's waters. I was naked and knew not how to swim. But I neither felt its cold nor drowned in its waters" (141). This passage exhibits imagery and explains Saadawi's feelings after Firdaus finishes telling her story. She uses the comparisons to sleeping and dream-like conditions to express the surreal aspects of Firdaus' life and the shock of some of the experiences Firdaus had to live through. She swam through the cold sea but "neither felt its cold nor drowned in its waters" (140) because she felt as though she was dropped into the dark, cold sea of Firdaus' life but wasnt able to feel the full effects of the traumas she experienced.

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Saadawi is in a dreamlike state and still in awe of Firdaus's story. "What lay under [her] was not a bed, but something solid like ground, yet with a coldness that did not reach my body" (141) because she was in a dreamlike state, her body and her mind separated because she is "swimming" (141) in everything that Firdaus had just told her. She is trying to emphasize the importance of what she had been told because the issues that Firdaus faced were serious and common in Egypt at that time.

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"I was naked and knew not how to swim. But I neither felt its cold, nor drowning in its waters." (141)
This is an example of imagery and shows how Saadawi feels immediately after Firdaus's tale. She isn't physically swimming, but the rush of emotions she experiences after the story simulate that presence of swimming and being surrounded by water.  She is surrounded and nearly overwhelmed with emotion but it its almost comforting in the fact it surrounds her all around. Saadawi does not feel the shock of  the cold or the experience. Mearly the sheer amount of emotion. Which is a lot.

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Talking about her emotions, Nawal states: "I was naked and knew not how to swim"(141). She is using this to explain the emotion she felt with Firdaus. She is full of emotion and this is the only way she could accurately articulate the emotions she was feeling at the time. She feels like Firdaus shouldn't be put to death and that she is someone she admired and therefore is overcome with emotion when the policeman come to take her to be executed.

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"We might even think they come from the depths of the earth, drop from the rooftops or fall from the heavens. Or they might even flow from all directions, like air moving in space reaches our ears" (141) is one example of imagery in Section 3. Saadawi uses this imagery to demonstrate the presence that Firdaus has. The entirety of the story focuses on Firdaus's journey, and her development from a girl to a woman. In the end of the book, Firdaus's presence is so powerful that she seems to be everywhere, ad leaves a lasting impression.

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?????????????????????????????????  Nawal is really in shock after listening to Firdaus talk. When she leaves, she notices "Inside of me was a feeling of shame. I felt ashamed of myself, of my life, of my fears, and my lies. The streets were full of people bustling around, of newspaper hanging on wooden stalls, their headlines crying out. At every step, wherever I went, I could see the lies, could follow hypocrisy bustling around" (142). Firdaus explaining her experience in life has opened Nawal's eyes to the injustices around her. It probably contributed to her motivation to write this book.
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