In the story, “Why My Mother Wants Me Dead” by Sabatina James; Sabatina refused to marry the man her parents wanted her to marry so Sabatina’s mother abused her. All Sabatina’s problems started when she was 15. Her parents thought that everything she wore was wrong, the activities she wanted to do her dad didn’t agree with, and her mother believed tampons was going to ruin her virginity. Her mother was beating her no reason for example, Sabatina’s mother read her diary about her kissing a boy and then smacked her. Sabatina’s family wanted her to get married at a young age because it was their tribal tradition and her mother got married around that age. At 16 years old, Sabatina got shipped to an Islamic school by her parents. She was in the
