Binta and The Great Idea

Soda's father does not want her to go to school because he thinks that a woman's job is to stay at home and take care of the children and clean the house. I think that his fears or concerns are that she would go to school and there would be nobody at the house to clean or take care of the children, also I think that he might believe that if she goes to school that she would be smart and maybe smarter than him. I do not know anybody like Soda's father and I hope that I never know anybody like Soda's father. Soda wants to go to school because she feels left out because all the rest of the girls are going and so is her little brother. She is left out and she feels that she needs to go to school and be one of the group and not an outsider. She also wants to be smart and learn through school so she can grow up and become what she wants to become. At the end when the children are saying that they became a doctor or have a very good profession now, that makes Soda angry and that is why she "calls out" her father and makes him let her go to school.