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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Chapter 1-10 (questions (how would you feel if…
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Chapter 1-10
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chapter 5, page 27
"a mans heart is wretched, wretched thin, Marium. it isn't like a mothers womb. it wont bleed, it wont stretch to make room for you."
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"now he is a little older than you... but he cant be more than.. forty. forty-five at the most. what are you, fifteen that a good, solid marrying age for a girl."
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chapter 10, page 68.
"Marium backed away. she was hyperventilating. her ears buzzed, her pulse fluttered, her eyes darted from one face to another."
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questions
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how does the situation with mariums new husband show her culture and where shes from and her background?
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chapter 11-20
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"Marriage can wait, education cannot... because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance." page 114
Society cant depend on men for everything. at some point women have to be educated to be able to participate in different parts of society in order to function.
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"now you know what your rice tastes like. Now you know what you've given me in this marriage. Bad food, and nothing else." page 94
this tells us how rasheed feels towards marium and the marriage. he is comparing a toxic relationship to bad food.
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"how glorious to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human begin, to know that there was no need any longer for pebble games." page 80
she excited to be a mother, she wants to treat her child better and give it a better life than her parents gave her.
questions
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although the two are married one of the spouses can still be raped if it is forced and they did not consent, why is this ignored (or allowed)?
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