1. The passage takes place when Laila is telling Mariam about her plan to escape. Mariam feels hope and seeks a new life away from her husband. 2. The narrator says that Mariam’s life was one of loneliness and disappointment, but what matters to her is what is happening in the present. There are many changes that could happen in her life, and she is still capable of letting go of her troubled past. 3. The author includes this passage as a representation of Mariam’s unending hope. It is significant because through every instance, Mariam accepts what fate hands her and remains hopeful that her life can get better. 4. This quote makes me want to look back at my life and not focus on the past or the future, but the present. Mariam is an inspiration …show more content…
The judge says that it is proven that women are different and cannot think like men, therefore they are inadequate. 3. The author uses this passage to show the inequality that exists between men and women in society. It is significant because many of the female characters are treated unfairly and are discriminated only because of their gender. 4. This quote takes me back to the times I have been discriminated because of my gender and looks. It makes me want to stand up for myself and remember that all people deserve equality no matter what race or gender they are. 1. The passage takes place when Mariam reflects on her life before she is executed. 2. In her final moments, Mariam thinks about the world and all the hopes and dreams she had. Her memories flash through her mind, but then she remembers the love she has given and received. 3. The author includes this passage to reveal that throughout the whole story, Mariam emerges as the true hero of the novel. It is significant because Mariam leaves the world proud of the person she has become, despite all of the obstacles she endured in her life. 4. The quote has a strong impact on me because there are many the mistakes I’ve made in my life that I haven’t let go of. It makes me want to look at the brighter side of things and realize that life can get better after the hard …show more content…
Mariam’s dad writes that he was not a good father and all the careless things he’s done back fired at him. Every bad decision he’s made cannot be taken back. He believes Mariam deserved a better father. 3. The author uses this quote to teach the reader about the inevitable things that occur in life. It is significant because the message of the book is that we all deserve happiness no matter what obstacles are in our way. 4. The quote makes me want to review the way I have been treating my family members and how I might have been better towards them. 1. The passage is from the very end of the novel. Laila knows that although Mariam is dead, she will always be in her heart. 2. To Laila, Mariam is always close. No matter where Laila goes, she knows Mariam is there with her. But most of the time, Mariam is in Laila’s heart. 3. The author includes this passage to reveal how much Mariam has affected Laila's life and how even though she is gone, Laila will never forget her. It is important because it shows how women from the novel let light shine through their challenges and overcome obstacles by finding happiness behind even in the darkest of
5. I had to stay after school for an hour in order for Mrs. Logue to elucidate on genetics.
lines two and three, the author makes an allusion to the Virgin Mary for visual imagery and
...he shows us her character, not by how she gives herself respect, but by the continued respect that she gives to others: even her tormenters. Her secret shame was kept inside, and it was an impossible burden to bear. She was brave.
... seeing and feeling it’s renewed sense of spring due to all the work she has done, she was not renewed, there she lies died and reader’s find the child basking in her last act of domestication. “Look, Mommy is sleeping, said the boy. She’s tired from doing all out things again. He dawdled in a stream of the last sun for that day and watched his father roll tenderly back her eyelids, lay his ear softly to her breast, test the delicate bones of her wrist. The father put down his face into her fresh-washed hair” (Meyer 43). They both choose death for the life style that they could no longer endure. They both could not look forward to another day leading the life they did not desire and felt that they could not change. The duration of their lifestyles was so pain-staking long and routine they could only seek the option death for their ultimate change of lifestyle.
For her 15th birthday, Mariam asked Jalil if he could take her to his cinema to watch Pinocchio. She also asked if Jalil could bring her brothers and sisters so she could meet them. Both Nana and Jalil thought it wasn’t a good idea, but Mariam insisted on going, so Jalil said he would send someone to pick her up. Mariam did not like this idea and said that she wanted to be picked up by Jalil. Jalil reluctantly agreed. Later that day, Mariam gets the backlash and hate from her mother from her decision: “Of all the daughters I could have had, why did God give me an ungrateful one like you? …How dare you abandon me like this, you treacherous little harami!” Mariam wakes up the next day, disappointed and fed up since Jalil did not come to pick her up. She heads out to town to find Jalil herself. She makes it to his house when a chauffeur tells Mariam that Jalil was “away on urgent business.” She slept outside of his house and was awoken by the chauffeur, telling her that he would take her home. Mariam snatches away from the chauffeur’s grip and turns around towards the house, to see Jalil in an upstairs window. It was then that Mariam figured out that all she was to Jalil was a disgrace. Jalil had always been careful with the information he told Mariam. He may have loved her, but only on his own terms. Once Mariam realizes that her father allowed her to sleep on the street rather than bring her into his
9. I am aware that I am exercising some nerve myself in saying what philosophers should not say.
There are three qualities that must have in order to endure hardship: love, hope and sacrifice. In A thousand splendid suns, everything happening bring more pains, and the characters must endure more. Mariam and Laila, they would not endure that much without the other. The relationship between them give us examples of hope, love and sacrifice, that they gives to each other in order to endure their
...She writes of the type of person that one can only hope exists in this world still. The message of her writing and philosophy is contained in a single phrase from the novel: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine,” (731). This is an inspiration, awakening an inner voice and drive that impels each person to do their absolute best. It implores the soul of the reader to awaken, to become the ideal of the human spirit, and to rise until it can rise no higher. It is a call to anyone with reason, anyone with the strength to be an Atlas, and it is reminding him or her of their duty to live up to the individual potential. For as long as there are those who would hear the message, there will still be hope for mankind.
The first of Castel’s dreams occurs while Maria is away at the estancia and ends up illustrating his chaotic emotions and confused adoration for her. Castel is in a weakened state and is frantically awaiting Maria’s return. He envisions being within a dark house which he feels he had “known and infinitely desired”(88) since his youth. He feels comforted in this residence because it is something definite, understood, and established. Castel lacks these feelings of stability in his life because he devoutly subscribes to the existentialist thought; he believes that mortality is a narrow passageway which is uncertain and has no point to it other than to purely exist. When he enters the dim household, he is mysteriously lead by “old memories” (88). These recollections imply a thematic undertone since existentialists believe that nothing precedes life be...
As a salamander, she still goes to check on the married man although she can not do anything about it. She watches and hears the man, whom she greatly cares for, with his wife from under the bed or on the window. The narrator says, “I crawled over to the light and placed myself right under the cross because inside myself, even though I wasn’t dead, there was nothing inside me that was totally alive” (Rodoreda 10). After seeing the man, she describes that she does not feel alive, but she knows she is not dead either. This lets the readers know that she is living her life with liminality. This is more of a mental state of liminality between being dead and being alive, since she is not physically experiencing any harm. This mental liminality along with the other present liminalities in the story create a very confusing world for the
Although the little girl doesn’t listen to the mother the first time she eventually listens in the end. For example, in stanzas 1-4, the little girl asks if she can go to the Freedom March not once, but twice even after her mother had already denied her the first time. These stanzas show how the daughter is a little disobedient at first, but then is able to respect her mother’s wishes. In stanzas 5 and 6, as the little girl is getting ready the mother is happy and smiling because she knows that her little girl is going to be safe, or so she thinks. By these stanzas the reader is able to tell how happy the mother was because she thought her daughter would be safe by listening to her and not going to the March. The last two stanzas, 7 and 8, show that the mother senses something is wrong, she runs to the church to find nothing, but her daughter’s shoe. At this moment she realizes that her baby is gone. These stanzas symbolize that even though her daughter listened to her she still wasn’t safe and is now dead. The Shoe symbolizes the loss the mother is going through and her loss of hope as well. This poem shows how elastic the bond between the daughter and her mother is because the daughter respected her mother’s wish by not going to the March and although the daughter is now dead her mother will always have her in her heart. By her having her
... the arduous work she commits, strenuously step-by-step to find her voice to say no. Likewise, tranquility worsens as the labour and her anger escalates, however she pacifies slowly and carefully. From the three, righteousness has a bigger impact on representing a life lesson through labour, as she continuously strives to obtain the satisfaction from others. This stands out apart from the rest, as it is a more prevalent theme, as well as a more prominent moral within Wanting Mor, with the statement, “If you can’t be beautiful you should at least be good. People will appreciate that,” always predominant. As these themes may be different from one another, they all demonstrate how, being assertive, calm and courteous can go a long way in the book as well as in life.
48) "we never got the habit of happiness as others know it. It was always as if
The use of Bishops words at the beginning of the poem refers to her earlier years when she lost her father when she was eight months old, which was not so hard to cope with the loss of her since she was just a baby to know about pain. On the contrary, the conclusion of her poem refers to the last recent loss of her lover Lota de Macedo Soares, which was painful and she has not yet mastered the loss.
... 3). There is a sense of contentment in the speaker about her death and appropriation of immortality.