https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv en-us 2017-04-21 20:52:53 UTC 2018-01-04 16:29:44 UTC hello@padlet.com mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593399 As a child, Mariam is called "Harmai"and characterizes herself as this word, " An illegitimate person who would never have a legitimate claim to the other things people had, things such as love, family, hope, acceptance" (Pg. 4). This symbolizes how Mariam sees herself. But buy the end of the novel, Mariam says "she thought her entry into this world, child of a lonely villager, and unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable incident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved . She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. No person of consequence at last" (Pg. 370). This word, alone, ignited her to become the opposite of it. To prove her childhood self wrong, an attain happiness. ]]> 2017-04-21 22:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593399 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593501 Nana hangs her self on a tree because Mariam left her to go to see city of Herat (Pg. 36). This symbolizes how closely Mariam's heart will be to nature, and it is mentioned throughout the book how Mariam notices nature and gardens and flowers especially. ]]> 2017-04-21 22:14:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593501 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593563 Mariam discovers she is pregnant with her first child and "her heart swelled inside of her. It's swelled and swelled until all of the loss, all of the grief, all the loneliness and self-abasement of her life washed away" (Pg. 89). This pregnancy served as happiness to her and many of the other Afghan women.]]> 2017-04-21 22:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593563 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593652 Babi takes everyone on a trip to the Buddah, where they learn about the history of Afghanistan, There it is peaceful and Babi wanted them to experience the the silence and peace of it (Pg.149). As they are there Babi expresses what his plans would be if he left Afghanistan, traveling to the United States (Pg. 146). This a symbol of the hope they have to escape the trenches of the town and home. ]]> 2017-04-21 22:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593652 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593710 Jalil has a rich lifestyle, having many wives and children and is one of "Herat's closest men" (Pg. 6). He, being an egomaniac, therefore seeks to rid Mariam when she has to stay with hm. Under high amounts of guilt for sending her to live with Rasheed, he tells Mariam ""Goddam it Mariam, don't do this to me", he said as though he was the one to whom something was being don"" (Pg.49) ]]> 2017-04-21 22:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167593710 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167594157 Nana tells us how she was treated by Jalil, stating "You know what he told his wives by a way of defense? That i forced myself on him. That it was my fault. Didi? You see? This is what it means to be a women in the world" (Pg. 7). Later, when she is a wife to Rasheed, she remembers this moment and says "She would have to clean after his mess, Rasheed, cook for him, wash his clothes. And there would be other chores as well- Nana had told her what husbands did to their wives" (Pg. 49).  Later Rasheed disrespect Mariam, telling her that a women crying is something she cannot stand (Pg.59). It is shown everywhere in this novel that the men in Afganasitan are dominant. ]]> 2017-04-21 22:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167594157 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167594754 Mariam's childhood home was in suburbs of Herat, names Gul Dama. Nana moved them "want[ing] to live somewhere removed", probably to procect Mariam from the neighbors who would snicker and assault Nana with insincere kindness when she was pregnant (Pg.9)]]> 2017-04-21 22:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167594754 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167594981 Nana, beginning at Mariam's childhood, grew a habit of making Mariam feel guilty, even once when Nana was talking about the pain she felt from Mariam's birth, "She ponder[ed] the unfairness of apologizing for the manner of her own birth" (Pg.11). This continues, when Nana commits suicide, Mariam feels it is her fault because she had once told Mariam that if she ever left, she would not live (Pg 43). Mariam carries this guilt into her older ages when she has a miscarriage, "Believe[ing} that the baby had been an undeserved blessing, that she was being punished for what she had done to Nana" (Pg.93). Mariam is constantly feeling guiltily. ]]> 2017-04-21 23:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167594981 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167595303 Nana is a hateful person. She is abusive to Mariam's half brothers "curs[ing] their mothers, [making] hateful faces at them" and she dislikes people "mak[ing] no secret of her dislike for visitors" (Pg.15).]]> 2017-04-21 23:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167595303 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167595454 when Jalil comes to visit Mariam, he brings Herat's news paper and kept her updated on outside things. Jalil served as "...her proof that there existed a world at large..." (Pg.23). After Nana"s passing and Mariam is living with Jalil, she ironically isolates herself in her room and "preferred to eat alone" (Pg. 40). Mariam is constantly lonely ]]> 2017-04-21 23:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167595454 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167595706 Mariam realizes that Jalil had betrayed her, listing all the things that she had been convinced of, not aware that Jalil was ashamed of her (Pg. 55). It is this moment that Mariam is enlightened about betrayal and recognizes her own. Mariam is later in the tandoor line getting groceries for Rasheed, and feels other women starring at her feeling that "they all knew she'd betrayed her mother and disgraced herself" (Pg. 66). Mariam goes home, and feels curious of Rasheed's belongings, and she finds magazines of naked women, she began to ask herself "...why did Rasheed insist that she cover when he thought nothing of looking at the private area of other men's wives and sisters?" (Pg. 83). She feels betrayed by her own husband a lot. ]]> 2017-04-21 23:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167595706 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167596573 While in argument with Afsoon, one of Jalils's wives, Afsoon is rationalizing that she has seen 9 year old girls given to men that are 20 years older than them, that Mariam is at a "...good, solid marrying age" (Pg.47). In Afghanistan at that time, it is customary that women get married at a very young a age. Therefore, it was appropriate for Jalil to see rationality in giving Mariam to Rasheed. ]]> 2017-04-22 00:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167596573 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167596740 Mariam is observing her surroundings waiting outside the embroidery shop for Rasheed. The women outside of her neighborhood were always fully clothed, but not the ones on this one. They were "modern", and this made Mariam "aware of her own loneliness, her lain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of many things" (Pg 74). This observation of her surroundings took a toll on how Mariam viewed herself. ]]> 2017-04-22 00:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167596740 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167597164 On April 17, 1978, Mariam heard on the radio the beginning of the war of the political parties of Afghanistan (Pg. 97). Later that day, or sheet was listening to the radio again and it declared "a revolutionary Council of the Armed Forces has been established, and our nation will not be known as the Democratic public of Afghanistan (Pg. 102). this war changed Mariam forever. It changed her life in the lead to the eventual death of Laila's parents (Pg. 199). ]]> 2017-04-22 00:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167597164 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167597678 Mariam began crying because of her moving into Rasheed's home, and his response was "Stop tour crying, now. I mean it" and "that's one thing I can't stand, the sound of a woman crying. I'm sorry. I have no patience for it" (Pg. 39). This reveals how ill-tempered he is, which takes a huge toll on Mariam because has to be his husband and adapt and abide to his demands. ]]> 2017-04-22 00:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167597678 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167598059 Visiting the Bamiyan Buddhas , Babi describes to Laila the adventures him and his wife, and laila's mother, would have at the Buddhas (pg. 149). His love in this moment not only changed how i saw Babi, but how Laila saw him giving her "a wave of affection" (Pg.149). ]]> 2017-04-22 01:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/167598059 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/da4uitxinulv/wish/218780465 since feeling is first

who pays any attention

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

my blood approves

and kisses are a better fate

than wisdom

lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry

—the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for each other: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life’s not a paragraph

 and death i think is no parenthesis

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