Mariam The Kind Of Shame Analysis

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When Mariam was young she lived isolated with her mother. While she lived with her mother she constantly wanted her father's affection as well. Later on in the first part of the novel Mariam realizes just what the kind of man her father was and she sacrifices her father in order to start a new life far away from him. Mariam giving up on her father was seen rather early as this quote was on page 35, “But mainly tears of a deep,deep shame at how foolishly she had given herself over to Jalil…” (35). Mariam uses the word shame which means she humiliated and exposed. The kind of shame she felt was as she said deep, This means that this is a shame that she has felt for a long time but now its been exposed to the world. In an article on the emotion