A dark and dingy room with a single spotlight above the rusty gray operating table feeling the cold steel table on her back as she endures a sharp blade tearing her abdomen open. Experiencing dreadful pain, screeching, and pleading desperately to stop the agony. Then a burst of relief as she hears the wailing cry of her newly born child. Mothers, such as Laila, goes through obstacles created by the Taliban to restrict women’s health and the lack of necessities to operate a hospital. Khaled Hosseini’s Foundation supports the families in Afghanistan through the war and starvation by opening orphanages, bringing jobs, and better healthcare to the women and children. A way he informs us about the struggles in his home country by writing novels.
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After the first night, Mariam had a closer look at Aziza she saw someone who loves her and when she walked away “ . . . [Aziza] started making the eh eh eh sound . . .” (243) as if she was about to cry. Mariam knows at this single moment, there is someone in this world that loves her. She is no longer an unwanted. Aziza’s love gives her meaning to her life other than serving Rasheed to his every need. She became a mother. Replacing Rasheed’s role in Aziza’s life (if he's ever going to do anything to help raise her). Similar families in Afghanistan burden by a daughter who the father either see as a pawn to sell into a marriage, in the same way, Jalil gave Mariam to Rasheed. In addition, Mariam gives up her own life to save Laila’s family after the death of Rasheed. Laila is stricken with shock as she “ . . . pac[es], moan[s], and band[s] her hands together, as Mariam [sits] near Rasheed . . . calm” (352). Mariam also became motherly to Laila as she handles Rasheed’s dead corpse. She takes responsibility for their actions and proud to do so. Saving the ones who truly loves her is not a punishment at …show more content…
She marries Rasheed to give her first child a chance to not be thought of a harami after she receives the tragic news of her child’s father, Tariq, is dead. She enters the pernicious marriage knowing Rasheed’s crude intentions, yet accepting the consequences knowing her child has a better place be raised here than wretched streets of Kabul. Quickly after the birth of Aziza, Rasheed began treating Lalia the same way he treats Marim. He is disappointed about the outcome of the child’s gender; everything about the child annoyed him, “‘I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in two months. . . And the room smells like a sewer. There [are] shit cloths lying all over the place’” (236). He is complaining about the child, but he is doing nothing to help resolve these issues. Women in the family are in charge of the housework. They are expected to raise the children, cook, clean, and please their husband. On the other hand, the men return home from work demanding for a meal to be prepared as he enters the house. Another time Laila became a greater mother is when Rasheed abandoned Aziza at the orphanage because the family can no longer support two children. He brings Laila to the orphanage to visit her Aziza, but she is only allowed to see her for fifteen minutes, any longer, he will of begin walking away and “Laila [have] to pester him, plead with him, in order [to be] with Aziza a bit
After the first night, Mariam had a closer look at Aziza she saw someone who loves her and when she walked away “ . . . [Aziza] started making the eh eh eh sound . . .” (243) as if she was about to cry. Mariam knows at this single moment, there is someone in this world that loves her. She is no longer an unwanted. Aziza’s love gives her meaning to her life other than serving Rasheed to his every need. She became a mother. Replacing Rasheed’s role in Aziza’s life (if he's ever going to do anything to help raise her). Similar families in Afghanistan burden by a daughter who the father either see as a pawn to sell into a marriage, in the same way, Jalil gave Mariam to Rasheed. In addition, Mariam gives up her own life to save Laila’s family after the death of Rasheed. Laila is stricken with shock as she “ . . . pac[es], moan[s], and band[s] her hands together, as Mariam [sits] near Rasheed . . . calm” (352). Mariam also became motherly to Laila as she handles Rasheed’s dead corpse. She takes responsibility for their actions and proud to do so. Saving the ones who truly loves her is not a punishment at …show more content…
She marries Rasheed to give her first child a chance to not be thought of a harami after she receives the tragic news of her child’s father, Tariq, is dead. She enters the pernicious marriage knowing Rasheed’s crude intentions, yet accepting the consequences knowing her child has a better place be raised here than wretched streets of Kabul. Quickly after the birth of Aziza, Rasheed began treating Lalia the same way he treats Marim. He is disappointed about the outcome of the child’s gender; everything about the child annoyed him, “‘I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in two months. . . And the room smells like a sewer. There [are] shit cloths lying all over the place’” (236). He is complaining about the child, but he is doing nothing to help resolve these issues. Women in the family are in charge of the housework. They are expected to raise the children, cook, clean, and please their husband. On the other hand, the men return home from work demanding for a meal to be prepared as he enters the house. Another time Laila became a greater mother is when Rasheed abandoned Aziza at the orphanage because the family can no longer support two children. He brings Laila to the orphanage to visit her Aziza, but she is only allowed to see her for fifteen minutes, any longer, he will of begin walking away and “Laila [have] to pester him, plead with him, in order [to be] with Aziza a bit