“Attack… fire… escape… railway station… night… Sakina. He rose abruptly and began searching through the milling crowd in the refugee camp.”

These two lines above express some of the memories, concerns, and motives of Sirajuddin after he regains consciousness. He is bombarded with traumatic images of the recent events that have separated him from his family. Yet, he has trouble recalling the vital details of the past few hours. This prevents him from completing the puzzle in his mind and finding his daughter. In the first line Manto, the writer, describes the main events using only seven words. There was an attack, fire spread, Sirajuddin escaped, he arrived at a railway station, and something happened to his daughter that night. The ellipses in between each word represent the foggy memories of Sirajuddin and the uncertainty he experiences. His wife is not mentioned in this brief muddled memory recall. He is fully aware that she’s dead. Manto explains that, “Sakina’s mother was dead. That much was certain. She had died in front of his eyes.” Also, Sirajuddin recalls “the dead body of his wife, her stomach ripped open” and that “she had died in front of his eyes.” Sakina’s mother could’ve been the person murdered in “Sorry” and Sirajuddin could be the man who ripped her stomach apart.