Various ways to kill ants

Author's name: Mohamed El-Fouly

Wahid is just a third-grade student, but his life isn't ordinary. His father, Hajj Fahim, subjects him to all kinds of torture. However, love is present in his life. He loves his mother, the wrestler John Cena, Ismaili mangoes, and the Arabic language. He even sees himself as its emperor and dreams of ascending the throne of its linguistic academy in the future. Wahid also detests many things, such as mathematics, Barcelona, ​​and the cursed ant, which tops this list for many reasons. Wahid approaches everything with a unique linguistic logic that constantly leads him to search and question the meaning of things and words. Although he admits to being a bit of a rhetorical nut, he never stops explaining his own childish philosophy of viewing the reality around him, even if his reality is a nightmare. "Various Ways to Kill Ants" offers a dark comedy whose main pillar is the child narrator who suffers from domestic abuse and knows and does not know everything. He presents a hysterical vision of the world in which the concept of innocence is contaminated and laughter is mixed with tears.