Samantha Tsang Tsang 1
Mrs. Fenn
ENG4U1-02
6th January, 2015
The Unbeatable
Not every woman in the world owns human rights, and treated equally as men. Lots of women suffer a lot of pain through their life. But they do not surrender. Instead, they power up and face the problem together. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hassenin have a lot in common; they both contain the cruelty of being a woman; the challenges the female characters have to go through are unimaginable. In order to survive, Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns has forgiven her enemy, Laila, and starts to build up strong bonds of love and friendship despite the disaster they share in the same household; while Lily in The …show more content…
First, she killed her mother, Deborah when she was four by accident. This is a terrible and guilty secret that she can never tell anybody, even herself. She uses her own memories and the courage to ask August for help to figure out what she wants and to figure out the difference between reality and what others had been trying to make her believe. She tries to pull herself out of what she had been dreaming about her mother. She needs to learn the pain of life, the truth. After finding out about her mother left her. Lily keeps repeating to August, “I am unlovable” (Kidd …show more content…
They are treated as property by their husband, Rasheed, and forbidden from taking part in society. Both women need to fully cover themselves with a burqa whenever they are outside. And they cannot go outside without a man. Rasheed sees Mariam and Laila as his tools to get himself another son. Unfortunately, Mariam has six miscarriages and Laila gives birth to a girl. Rasheed rapidly changes his mood to aggressive that he never gets another son to replace his first son, who passed away under
Mrs. Fenn
ENG4U1-02
6th January, 2015
The Unbeatable
Not every woman in the world owns human rights, and treated equally as men. Lots of women suffer a lot of pain through their life. But they do not surrender. Instead, they power up and face the problem together. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hassenin have a lot in common; they both contain the cruelty of being a woman; the challenges the female characters have to go through are unimaginable. In order to survive, Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns has forgiven her enemy, Laila, and starts to build up strong bonds of love and friendship despite the disaster they share in the same household; while Lily in The …show more content…
First, she killed her mother, Deborah when she was four by accident. This is a terrible and guilty secret that she can never tell anybody, even herself. She uses her own memories and the courage to ask August for help to figure out what she wants and to figure out the difference between reality and what others had been trying to make her believe. She tries to pull herself out of what she had been dreaming about her mother. She needs to learn the pain of life, the truth. After finding out about her mother left her. Lily keeps repeating to August, “I am unlovable” (Kidd …show more content…
They are treated as property by their husband, Rasheed, and forbidden from taking part in society. Both women need to fully cover themselves with a burqa whenever they are outside. And they cannot go outside without a man. Rasheed sees Mariam and Laila as his tools to get himself another son. Unfortunately, Mariam has six miscarriages and Laila gives birth to a girl. Rasheed rapidly changes his mood to aggressive that he never gets another son to replace his first son, who passed away under