Arranged Marriage Analysis

Why would anyone want to be in an arranged marriage? Sometimes people like to be in arranged marriages because they don’t want the freedom of picking their partner and believe it’s their destiny and some people want to meet their intimate partner on their own. While the author does show a distressing tone, it reveals the author’s attitude through the story of Farima and the customs of marriage and divorce.
While the author states his opinion toward arranged marriages is negative, he includes real life experiences. Farima was confused when she was told at the age of nine years old her mother told her she was engaged to a stranger (Sieff 47). Farima, like all the rest of the Afghanistan women, went through the “suicide attempt” and her fiance claimed even after Farima was in surgery for her back for three hours after jumping and her father “heard her body hit the dirt like a tiny explosion” (Sieff 47). When Farima “gave up on the prospect of another suicide” she decided to “ resolve her failing engagement” in “ family court” (Sieff 48). Examine ways the author reveals his attitude.
What he says about the courts: Sieff decides the Afghan justice system to be biased to men by saying “men can divorce their wives without the approval of any justice system” but women have to “plead” their case “in front of a room of lawyers and judges” (48). In the Afghan justice system women are only allowed to plead for divorce if they have five male witnesses (Sieff 48). What he says about Rasia: Sieff lets the reader have their own perceptions when Rasia says “you have ruined your life” when Farima starts to adjust her back brace (48). Then basically tells the reader not to judge Rasia by what she says first by revealing Rasia thinks “about the sadness” her job brings to the women of Afghanistan (Sieff