Here, I used similes to demonstrate the impact of Rasheed’s anger. Similes are effective because it shows the power of Rasheed’s aggressiveness. I first compared Rasheed to a predator finding its prey to show how much effort Rasheed is putting into finding Laila and Mariam. Also, by using two fireballs as a vehicle for the another simile and an earthquake’s rumble for another one, it is clear that Rasheed’s anger towards Mariam and Laila at this point is quite extreme.…
Iring King Jordan was born June 16, 1943 in Glen Riddle, PA, in 1988, King was the first deaf president of Galladette university the world's only university with all programs and services designed specifically for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. That year Gallaudet students, with support from many alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the University, protested the Board of Trustees' appointment of a hearing person to the presidency. After the week-long protest The deaf now protest the Board reversed its decision and named Jordan, one of three finalists for the position, the eighth president of Gallaudet and the first deaf president since the institution was established in 1864. On campus, he was widely applauded for his successful…
Hosseini shows how Laila and Tariq’s relationship grows while other’s dwindles. Since Tariq and Laila have love, commitment, compassion, and understanding, they always get through any troubles they have. Rasheed’s relationships with his wives differ from Laila and Tariq’s because Rasheed is violent has has no love for Mariam and Laila. Nobody else in the book can compare to Laila and Tariq when they are together. They have an inseparable relationship that will never be…
Thanhha Lais verse novel shows the reader the struggles of being a refugee, a 10 year old girl and her family. Ha was to be tutored by someone because she struggles with speaking there language in Alabama. It shows the struggles of Ha and her family needing to leave there country because of the war and needing to go from Vietnam to Alabama. They struggle with the neighbour’s inadequate behaviour showed towards Ha’s family. Lai also highlights that Ha struggles with finding friends and trying her hardest to cope with being bullied by a kid in her class at this new school she moved to.…
But Dunstan makes a big change in his later years, specifically in regard to Leisl. She teaches him that love, friendship, and even a sexual relationship doesn't have to be smothering, as it was with his mother. Dunstan spent a long time learning this; because he never had a long-term relationship (other than Diana) that worked out very well, he lived a somewhat stunted, bachelor life well into his 50s. But knowing Leisl for many years changed him, so that in his later years he could fall into a kind of companionable relationship that didn't frighten or threaten him.…
3:02pm Laila started to cry while sitting on the floor, her grandmother picker her up from the floor and asked her “what’s wrong granny baby?”, are you hungry and the cry…
Now, let’s focus on the other main character, Maha, the girl who gave the proposal to go to Chlifa as well as taking care of a baby along their journey. In my eyes, she is an impossibly brave and sensitive girl with a fragile heart. She always pretends to be strong but in fact she has been hurt by Karim again and again. She fell in love with Karim in a silent way and she is willing to be his soul mate during their…
like to go to school and her fear of the Taliban. Malala's best friend Moniba found out that…
The most striking examples, however, occur near the end of the novel. Rasheed, who had tormented Mariam and Laila for years, finally met his end with the same brutality as he treated them. And lastly, the relationship between Mariam and her father, Jalil. Mariam always admired her father, so much so that she intended to leave her mother, who had raised Mariam alone all her life. Mariam waited for days outside Jalil's house, knowing of his presence inside. But he, for fear of losing face, ignored his harami, never to treat her like a daughter of his own. Later, awaiting the arrival of his death, Jalil visited Mariam's house to make amends. Mariam, fittingly, did not welcome him and shredded his letter, never to know until many years later why her father visited. After Mariam's execution, Laila read a letter from Jalil's will, one Mariam had never read. He was both understanding and disappointed that Mariam never opened the door, describing it as penance for his actions:…
“An heirloom-breaking, clumsy little harami” (Hosseini 4), sets the tone for the beginning of Mariam’s life throughout the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Many women are mistreated throughout the novel, but Mariam’s childhood is much tougher because she is a harami, or “bastard child”. Mariam tries to find emotional and physical shelter in her lifetime, but struggles to find it. In the beginning of her life she can’t find emotional shelter from her mother, Nana, so she tries to find shelter from her father, Jalil, but can’t find a connection. She then was forced to marry Rasheed, but can only find physical shelter in him. Later in the novel, she becomes friends with Laila, Rasheed’s second wife, and things start to change for her and she starts to feel wanted when Aziza wants to be held by her.…
On the surface, Patria is portrayed as the most mundane of the Mirabal sisters because she is very religious and family-oriented character. However, Alvarez uses these characteristics and emphasizes on the events that led up to her loss of faith in order to shape her motivations for joining the revolution. In the beginning of the novel, Patria had no interest in being part of the revolution. However, her views change when surprise invasion when she was on a religious retreat. During the explosions, Patria witnesses a traumatic event when she looks out the window and witnesses the death of a young boy. She relates to this boy as if he were her own son and the terrible scene had a profound impact on her. After this traumatic event, Patria began to doubt God’s ability to protect her and her family. In her narration, she says, “I'm not going to sit back and watch my babies die, Lord, even if that's what You in Your great wisdom decide” (Alvarez 162). This event had a compelling effect on this character in two aspects. In one aspect, since Alvarez emphasized on Patria loss of faith, she was able to to transform the character, Patria from an ordinary, religious woman into a strong member of the revolution. In another aspect, by highlighting this traumatic event in Patria’s life, Alvarez was able to create depth in…
Mariam was living with her mother Nana out of the city. Nana was always sacrificing every little thing for Mirima but she never notice what her mom was doing for her. Until one day when Mariam decides to go looking for her had without caring for what Nana was going to say. Jalil, Mariam’s dad didn’t let Mariam into his house, Mariam was extremely upset and left home but before she went looking for her dad, Nana said to Mariam that if she leaves she was going to kill herself: “ The rope dropping from a high branch, Nana dangling at the end of it” ( Hosseini 36). That day Mariam realizes that Nana kill herself for her, she has just sacrifice her life for her daughter because her daughter was the love of her life. Over the years of not having Nana by her side and she being gone Mariam now knows how much Nana sacrifice. Nana went through many obstacles while having Mariam. She didn’t give Mariam away, Nana endure the shame and she was loving Mariam in her own way. When Mariam was seeing that Laila was sacrificing her life for her baby when she was giving birth Mariam thought “ruefully of Nana of the sacrifices that she too had made”( Husseini 287). Mariam now knew what mothers sacrifice for their…
Humans cannot develop successfully without their personal ideology. Everyone's ideology, worldview and background is different and cannot be compared. If everyone had the same ideology, background and the understanding of the life, the world would have not been the same as today. Diversity and tolerance stands behind the modern world. Malala and Tamim are the greatest examples of tolerance and diversity. They have embraced many ideologies, values, traditions, and cultures. Being an open-minded and acceptable distinguishes them from the rest of the world. The most successful people are the ones that have liberal views to every ideology, culture, traditions and values. People must embrace various ideologies,…
Although Laila was also brought up in the same society as Mariam, her character is stronger as compared to Mariam’s. She has a strong desire to use her intelligence and education to improve the society and as her father, tells her: “Marriage can wait, education cannot... You can be anything you want... Because a society has no change of success if its women are uneducated... No chance” (Hosseini, 114). The characters personality evolves over time, and this helps to analyze the tragic themes of the novel which are oppression, hope, and internal strength of women.…
Nizami's traditional love story "Layla and Majnun" has more powerful emotions of love rather than Rule's contemporary love story "Middle Children". The character in Rule's story developed into a loving relationship but there wasn't much evidence of affection or passion throughout the story. The charcters never directly mention their feelings for each other, whereas Majnun spent most of his time singing songs to express his love and Layla could not get her mind off of him. "I cannot recall a single moment in my life that had not been spent thinking of you" p113. Another example to demonstrate their powerful love for each other would be the first moment they laid eyes on each other and had that instantaneous affect. "From their first day at school they were drawn to each other and as time passed, this spark of attraction grew into a burning flame of love" p105. Their love continued to grow more and more as time passed and neither Majnun or Layla could every have someone replace the love they had between them. The love and emotions they had for each other was so powerful that Layla once told her new husband, which was arranged by her father that "I will never be a wife"p112 and made it clear to her husband that she "could never love him" p112. Even though she married another man, she wasn't able to get her mind off Majnun and that is when she wrote to him saying: "I have endure…