-Beginning= Firdaus is passive towards men, confused about her body. “ I saw Mohammadain...my whole body shuddered with a faraway yet familiar pleasure arising from an unknown source, from some indefinable spot outside my being. And yet I could feel it somewhere in my body, a gentle pulsation beginning like a tender pleasure, and ending like a tender pain. Something I tried holding on to, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now…and not something I had lost a long time ago" (26).
When Firdaus is going into the workforce, she becomes more accustomed to men’s ways and she starts to resent men more and she considers her self-worth to be better the more in time the novel goes. "It's not that I value my honor and my reputation more than the other girls, but my price is much higher than theirs…I was not keen on keeping my job, and perhaps for that very reason the company authorities seemed to become more and more keen to keep me…I was an honorable woman, and a highly respected official, in fact the most honorable" (76). She starts to value herself materialistically and she considers herself to be more expensive compared to other prostitutes. Wealth in the novel is very materialistic, such as makeup, clothes, and cars. …show more content…
She writes, “On one occasion he hit me all over with his shoe. My face and body became swollen and bruised. So I left the house and went to my uncle,” (p.44). When she was forced back to her husband’s house and was once again abused, she decided to leave his home. “But this time, [she] did not go to [her] uncle’s house,” (p.45). Clearly, one can see that she’s learned from her past experiences, and decided to leave them for her safety. This is her initial step towards her
When Firdaus is going into the workforce, she becomes more accustomed to men’s ways and she starts to resent men more and she considers her self-worth to be better the more in time the novel goes. "It's not that I value my honor and my reputation more than the other girls, but my price is much higher than theirs…I was not keen on keeping my job, and perhaps for that very reason the company authorities seemed to become more and more keen to keep me…I was an honorable woman, and a highly respected official, in fact the most honorable" (76). She starts to value herself materialistically and she considers herself to be more expensive compared to other prostitutes. Wealth in the novel is very materialistic, such as makeup, clothes, and cars. …show more content…
She writes, “On one occasion he hit me all over with his shoe. My face and body became swollen and bruised. So I left the house and went to my uncle,” (p.44). When she was forced back to her husband’s house and was once again abused, she decided to leave his home. “But this time, [she] did not go to [her] uncle’s house,” (p.45). Clearly, one can see that she’s learned from her past experiences, and decided to leave them for her safety. This is her initial step towards her