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Women's Rights
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a recurring theme throughout the novel. Situations of Mariam or Laila being choked, hit, or beaten are mentionable in most chapters.
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"Islamic laws that ordered women to cover, forbade their travel without a male relative, punished adultery with stoning."
There are many passages of Rasheed verbally abusing Mariam. Mariam's hands would then shake and she would timidly try to please Rasheed, afraid of a beating.
Mariam is punished throughout the book for the littlest of things, at one point, Mariam undercooked Rasheed's rice. He then proceeds to force her to eat pebbles and little rocks; breaking her molars and teeth.
Sexism
The Taliban forces women to all share the same hospital. The hospitals the women were forced to go to are in bad condition. They are in need of proper medical supplies to treat women .
Mariam was forced to wear a burqa as it is a common thing to be worn by married women. Rasheed says that he believes that not wearing a burqa is a sign of disrespect to him and the Koran.
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Restricted Rights
All forms of entertainment were banned, universities and schools refused women. Women are not allowed to be educated or learn.
“Television screens were kicked in. Books, except the Koran, were
burned in heaps, the stores that sold them closed down.
In the third part of the book, Afghanistan seems to get progressively worse. More rights are being restricted and women who would even take a step outside or talked back to an officer would be stoned to death.
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