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PicturesThe briny conflict in the text is about having different religions. Its abouthow a little girl is having problems about understanding why she cant paint spectral persons with dark skin. At crop the teacher says that Amina can takethe indicate to show her mom. Amina doesnt understand why it cant hang on thewall unitedly with the other childrens. besides the teacher gives another excuseand Amina "surrenders", and takes the picture home. But as her convey sees thepicture she tears it apart, and tells Amina to never say anything to Aminas military chaplain and she tells Amina explicitly not to fool anymore pictures of theProphet of Nazareth. It is obvious that Aminas mother is scared of how thefather will react if he sees that her daughter has piebald people from the Bible.Amina and her family are muslims, thats why her mother cant accept the temptingAmina brings home. The moderateness why she doesnt want the father to know is thathes the dominant one in the fam ily. Maybe the mother is scared that he willpunish Amina, or maybe even the mother, for not bringing up her daughterproperly. and so Aminas mother teaches her to draw patterns from the Koran. Aminalikes to draw the patterns and she is no more confused. Next mean solar day at school,theyre all going to draw nice Christmas cards. Amina draws the patterns thather mother has retributory taught her. The teacher tells her to draw people instead,and she throws away the Christmas card with patterns on it. Amina refuses todraw people, and reminds the teacher of what shed told Amina the other day. Theteacher tries to behave nice and convinces Amina that she will vagabond Aminaspicture next to the others. During the two discussions the teacher and Aminaare having, the teacher is having a hard time justifying what she is actuallydoing. She gives no particular reason for verbalise Amina to take home the picture.Just as well as she gives no explanation for, why Amina cant draw patterns fromt he Koran. Instead she tries to flatter Amina by congress her that she is good atpainting. Even more confused, Amina draws people instead. At school shes toldto draw people from the Christian Bible and at home shes told thats wrong. Athome her mom tells her to draw patterns from the Muslim Koran, but when shecomes to school she is told to draw people, - no wonder she is confused Theending is from the parents point of view very(prenominal) contradictive ( I assume that the