In Camera

El Saadawi writes a really interesting essay here in which the flow keeps switching from first to third person, and from her, to her mom, to her dad, and finally to the deliberation room at the end. In Camera takes place in a court room. The female who seems to be the main character is on the stand and on trial. The story starts with very vivid, descriptions on what seemed to be how she felt after she was raped. She has whatever was on her head taken off and has an interesting way of describing the people she sees while her eyes continue to regain focus. She later talks bad about her rapists' leader and the judge quotes her in the courtroom. When he does this, the whole courtroom goes crazy, hooting and hollering. Near the end of the story the focus seems to change from this girl being on trial, to the judge being on trial when his allegiance is questioned because he quoted the girl.