(Hosseini 103). Laila eventually gets married at a young age to Rasheed‚ after her parents die. She no longer pursues her education‚ but still remembers her father’s words. Eventually‚ she becomes a teacher at the orphanage. Rasheed owns a shoe repair shop‚ and is middle aged. His first wife and son both passed away‚ which led Rasheed to desperately want another son. Rasheed is very stern with his family‚ and later becomes abusive. Rasheed states‚ “Where I come from‚ one wrong look‚ one improper word
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Rasheed looks at ideas through his own perception. In life people say you are what you think‚ this is certainly true. The metaphors sheet that each individual completed tells me a much about how humans tend to prioritize ideas into groups of importance. Rasheed seems to group his focus into his religion‚ significant other‚ travel. Jesus is a focal point in his life because to him he seems to have many titles that he runs under Rasheed can look into ideas from
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into marrying Rasheed a forty-five-year-old shoemaker. At first‚ thing seem to be lovely with the newly-wed couple‚ but after an agonizing miscarriage‚ Rasheed becomes physically and verbally abusive toward Mariam. In the same community as Mariam and Rasheed is Laila‚ a young and smart girl from a stable household‚ where education is the number one priority and marriage can wait. However‚ she lives in the shadow of
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mother dead and her dads embarrassment for her‚ but also Nana saying “I’ll die if you go‚ just die.” (Hosseini‚ Pg. 38). Now at Mariam’s roughest time in her life‚ she has nobody to seek emotional shelter to. Mariam is eventually forced to marry Rasheed and moves into a house with an abuser as a husband and still has not overcome the death of Nana.
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has committed suicide out of fear that her daughter has deserted her. Mariam is then taken to live in her father’s house. Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed‚ a shoemaker from Kabul who is thirty years her senior. In Kabul‚ Mariam becomes pregnant seven successive times‚ but is never able to carry a child to term‚ and Rasheed gradually becomes more abusive. A girl named Laila and a boy named Tariq‚ who are close friends and aware of social boundaries‚ live in the same neighborhood. War
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Mariam‚ Nana‚ and Jalil. Furthermore‚ Rasheed‚ the abusive husband of Mariam and Laila‚ does not believe
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never knew when he refuses to see her and marries her off to Rasheed. “They had been disgraced by her birth‚ and this was their chance to erase‚ once and for all‚ the last trace of their husband’s scandalous mistake” (45). Mariam accepts her lowly treatment because she has been conditioned to think of herself solely as a bastard‚ a mistake. In her marriage‚ Mariam holds a lesser status as a woman. Yet again‚ she endures what society and Rasheed tell her to do from wearing burqas‚ enduring nonconsensual
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to live with a man named Jalil. Jalil comes off as a nice guy but ends up ruining her life. He forces her to get married to a shoe maker named Rasheed at the young age of fifteen. Miriam‚ from the start‚ is not fond of Rasheed and is actually frightened of him. Throughout their marriage‚ Miriam ends up having six miscarriages‚ and it does not make Rasheed happy. Laila is introduced as a young girl and develops a strong friendship with a boy named Tariq. This friendship turns into something much more
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Women in Afghanistan expected to be self-discipline. Mariam is understanding and kind-hearted person. She has a great respect to her mother nana. Even though‚ Mariam sometimes will not listen to her‚ she always loves and obeys her mother Nana. After Jahil’s visits‚ Nana was frustrated with Mariam’s behavior‚ she said‚ "Learn this now and learn this well‚ my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north‚ a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that Mariam"(Hosseini 7)
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Nana had hung herself in a tree. After the funeral‚ Jalil takes her into his home only to give her away to a man named Rasheed‚ a man much older than Mariam who lives in Kabul‚ for marriage. After a few failed pregnancies‚ Rasheed gets tired of her and starts being abusive. Then the book switched to another character‚ Laila‚ who was born a while after Mariam and Rasheed got married. Her best friend Tariq lost one of his legs from a land mine. As they grow up together they fall in love with
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