Chapters 40-42: Dvorah is caught stealing by Reva and Reva dismisses her from apprenticing as a midwife, making Dvorah more determined than ever to escape Hassam with Matti. Ayal and Shira are now married! Recounting the day that they left Egypt, Ayal’s and Shira’s families eat together. Then, later in the evening, Shira stands up to Ayal’s
The protagonist, Amir, is a Sunni, Pashtun and the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant. Throughout his life, Amir has received every materialistic want but has always felt the need to please his father, his Baba, and share a deeper connection with him. This is shown when Amir says, “We’d had a fleeting good moment-it wasn’t often Baba talked to me, let alone on his lap-and I’d been a fool to waste it.” And “I didn’t want to disappoint him again.” Likewise, Amir feels a sense of jealousy every time Baba praises Hassan and he receives the attention that Amir constantly longs for.
The main character in this book was Marjan. She is kind, thoughtful, and brave but, sometimes she worries about Shahrazad. Shahrazad is brave, merciful, and beautiful. Dunyan is
The struggle of power is shown throughout the book. Haman is the king’s advisor who wanted to be king. He manipulates the king in approving his requests of genocide to the Jews. He was involved in the murdering of the Jewish race, including Hadassah’s family. When women are sent to be in election of a queen, they put on all the jewelry offered to them.
The story argues family issues and strong connection between family members. It also mention that how family members are dealing with problems. For instance, when İnce Memed left the village, he could not stop thinking of his mother because he left his mother behind as well, so he felt guilty. The reason for his returning to village is that land owner Abdi Ağa murders his mother. Memed is very angry with him so he vow to take the revenge.
In Shalimar, he finds much of his family history packed into the small town. While learning about his heritage, he meets two women, Susan Byrd and Grace Long, who revolutionize the way he thinks of himself. When they first meet, they discuss the idea of
He takes the marriage to come closer to Tita. She doesn’t allow such a tradition to overcome her defiant ways, and so it stirs up conflict. In the end her mother
The character of Rasheed is an epitome of the male dominated Afghan society. He is an unsympathetic patriarch who treats his wives as pieces of property. He exercises his power over them and uses them for the satisfaction of his physical needs. In the beginning after marrying Mariam, Rasheed treats her well. He takes her out to show around the City of Kabul and also buys a beautiful shawl for her.
Mujahid: “Someone who struggles for the sake of Allah and Islam.” In the late 1970’s a group of “rebels” rose in Afghanistan. These rebels took upon the name Mujahideen in reference to the Arabic word Mujahid. The rise of the Mujahideen came from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Over the course of twenty years the Mujahideen developed and eventually splintered into various groups, one of which we know now as the Taliban.
Amir and Soraya illustrate romantic love. Hassan demonstrates the best of selfless love towards others. The other characters are learning from his examples and realize that forgiveness and love of self are the most important to learn before you can love someone else. Amir struggles with this as he is so hard on himself and thinks he's a disappointment to his father. Forms of sin play a huge theme role.
Kabul, a mysterious city with darkness lurking in its streets. The Taliban are in power. The people are slowly going insane, and with no one to fix their city, the demons will be driven to madness. One man who intends to leave Kabul. Something is driving him back.
However, their very obstacle was man. Although, the women were often seen as unfaithful and inferior to men, Shahrazed portrays a feminist character by using her sneaky strategy and fearlessness of men to trick the king, save the women of the kingdom and help them overcome discrimination. If the king was to kill every woman after a night with them, this would have caused a population decrease and the kingdom would eventually run out of women for him to marry. This story makes the reader take sides of the women that the king is
“Now you know what your rice tastes like. Now you know what you 've given me in this marriage. Bad food, and nothing else.” (Hosseini, 67). Rasheed is blaming Mariam for giving him a bad marriage because of the bad rice that she cooked.
While Nemasani’s character more closesly resembles Penelope’s, her tale is also resemblant of Scheherazade from the Arabian Nights, or One Thousand and One Nights. The story starts with the Persian King’s wife cheating on him— a crime that he executed her for— and following her death, he formed a twisted routine; every day he would marry a virgin, at night he
Hosseini 104).When Rasheed forces Mariam to eat pebbles, he represents the corrupted person, or vampire, who only perceives his wife as an object that seeks to serve him and his relentless demands. After a while, Rasheed begins to look at Mariam as a burden that needs to be lifted off of his shoulders, so he tortures and abuses her, turning himself into a monster in the process. Furthermore, Rasheed does the same thing to his other wife, Laila, and his daughter. When Laila and Aziza attempt to escape, Rasheed is outraged, so he asserts his power when, “ [He] had not given them any food, and worse, no water. That day, a thick, suffocating heat fell on them.
