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Why didn't Mariam go with Laila to Pakistan?
One thing that I don't get is why Mariam decided she had to stay behind. Why didn't she go with Miriam to Pakistan?
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Hello, we just discussed this book in our book club. I feel that Miriam wanted to give Laila, Tarigue and the children a chance of a good life and that if she joined them, they would always have to be on the run.
Gisela Martinez 7 months agoI don't buy it. People were being murdered and disappearing left and right. Who is to say one of the roving military parties didn't break in, murder Rasheed and kidnap the women? Rasheed turning up dead would be entirely plausible.
And who was going to hunt them down? The police? The neighborhood was practically in rubble. It's not like they had neighbors they were friendly with - hell, no one ever saw their faces! She should have just gone, but then it wouldn't make for a very good book now would it?
Alexa Welsh 7 months agoI agree with you, she should have gone! But like you said, it adds to the storyline!
Gisela Martinez 7 months agoI really wish Marian did go tiwth Laila to Pakistan. It wasn't very plausidble that Laila wouldn't push her harder to go with them.
Facebook User 7 months agoI think Miriam was God-fearing and believed in right and wrong. With that in mind, she knew what she did was wrong, regardless of how horrible Rasheed was, so I'm thinking that she figured she should pay for her sin.
Also, as someone else mentioned, it really did free Laila from any consequences.
After reading this book, I have nothing good to say about Afghanistan at all.
Anonymous User 7 months agoI agree with the discussion before. Just as far as the last comment goes: "I have nothing good to say about Afghanistan." It is very important to remember this was not an Afghani ideology but the ideas of the Taliban (a group based out of neighboring Pakistan and one of many feuding groups in Afghanistan, as the book discusses) that were imposed on these people. The people who suffered the most from everything discussed in these books are the Afghan women and as we can see with current events now Pakistani women have to fear the same thing due to the Taliban trying to take hold in Pakistan now. So it's important to keep in mind this is not how Afghanistan functions as a people, but rather what they have been subjected to as a people.
Evan Michael Davidoff 7 months agoYeah, it seemed like she volunteered for martyrship for no reason. Maybe her feeling was that if she took the blame, there wouldn't be any feeling that anyone else was involved, but it seemed like an extreme, possibly unnecessary measure.
Jordan Cook 7 months agoI think the author really messed up by sending Mariam with Laila... even if it offers a scandalous twist of sorts to the story line. I mean, how often did they bury and then retrieve the forbidden tv out of the ground. It's just as plausible that they could have buried that horrid man and gotten away with it. I do think there were religious reasons behind her staying to take the punishment such as thinking that there were no variations on right and wrong.
Facebook User 7 months agoThe way I understood it was, as Mariam explained to Laila, she could nolt look into her son's eyes and live everyday with the fact that she had deprived him of his father. Yes, I think his father was a pig who deserved what Mariam did, but Mariam was at heart, a devout Muslim.
Facebook User 6 months agoI agree with this post, Mariam made it clear that she couldn't live with the fact that she took the boy's father away from him. She had time to contemplate her life, and I think she felt that she had lived her life through to the end. She had finally gotten everything she ever wanted, to love and to be loved in return.
These women lived in fear for much of their lives and I think that running away was no longer an option for them. Mariam couldn't live with the sheer possibility of having Laila get caught and blamed for her actions.
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