In the story “ A Hand in the Grave” by Ghassan Kanafani, the author talks about two medical students and the mission that they partake one night. They are required to bring to school the following day a corpse so that it can be studied. Since neither of the two medical students can afford to buy a corpse, they decide to visit a local cemetery to dig one up. The story is read from the point of view of the first person style of writing. The conflict is dealt in a Man vs. Himself conflict. The characters in the story are the following: Nabile, who the story is told from his point of view, is a medical student. Suhail is another medical student who goes with Nabile to find a skeleton for his class.