What terrible tragedy occurs to Mariam? How does she deal with this? What is ironic about her neighbor? How are Mariam and Nana alike? Use quotes to prove your answer.
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Well a lot of bad things happen to Miriam. Her mom commits suicide because she goes to live with Jalid, but Jalid doesn’t want her. And then, Jalid gives her away to a old wrinkly man named Rasheed, who is very old. Rasheed is nice to her until she has several miscarriages and he realizes that she is infertile. Then, when Miriam is already upset, her neighbor has a baby which makes her feel more depressed. Marian and Nana are alike because they are both unwanted and burdens and they turn out to be not very nice when they get older. They are both alone in the world.
Mariam and Rasheed were expecting a baby. Mariam was informed at one of her hospital visits that the baby died. Mariam really wanted a baby, and was incredibly sad when she heard this news. After the miscarriage, Rasheed took all of his anger out on Mariam, which made Mariam even more heartbroken. It is ironic that Mariam’s neighbor, Laila, has a baby. Mariam really wanted a baby, and did not have one, and Laila didn’t plan on having one, and she got pregnant, with Tariq as the father. Mariam and Nana are alike in that they are both independent characters. Now that Mariam had a miscarriage, she is depressed, just like Nana was before she committed suicide.
John Cunniff
Poor Mariam, her life is basically shit on all the time.
For so long, Mariam wanted a child. Finally, she became pregnant, and as her dream seemed to be coming true, it was only a miscarriage. And to add a cherry atop a sundae of hardship and shame, Rasheed deems his wife infertile and he is very angry.
Childbirth, children, life, is such a beautiful thing. To have a miscarriage is almost like losing a child and losing a child is terrible event to happen in any parents life. It hurts me so that Mariam's life never seems to be easy; everything about her existence seems inevitably cursed.
B.Finn, rep
...to be continued
When Mariam finds out that she lost her child she is overcome by sadness. Being pregnant made her happy for the first time in a really long time and now another tragic event occurred in her life. The irony lays in timing where Mariam’s neighbor becomes pregnant with her third child; a child who she does not even care for as the story progresses.
Mariam and Nana are both alike and dissimilar. After the events that transpired between Mariam and Jalil, Mariam sees Jalil’s true colors and feel the same way about him as Nana did. However, throughout the events in the novel Mariam proves that she is stronger than Nana and sheds the theory that Nana said that Mariam was worthless.
Lauren Southworth
Severall bad things happen to Miriam throughout the novel. So far Miriam's mother commits suicide after Miriam leaves to Jalil's house. Next, Jalil gives Miriam away to an old man named Rasheed. At first he was caring and nice to Miriam but after she has several miscarriages he turns on her because she couldn't have a child. Miriams neighbor has a baby and when she sees this she becomes depressed and sad.
Mariam’s whole life has been full of tragedy. First she is abandoned by her father, and then while trying to get closer to him, she loses her mother. She is then given away and is forced to marry a much older man, Rasheed. After all of her hardships, she finally finds something to be happy about when becomes pregnant. That is until she miscarries and along with it her marriage deteriorates. Her husband becomes cold, neglectful, and even abusive. In the next few years Mariam has many more miscarriages which just continues to worsen her relationship with Rasheed. After everything Mariam goes through, she begins to act just as angry and hateful as her mother. She begins to believe that her mother’s cynical views of the world are true.
Mariam loses her baby and since that her life has been really bad and her husband treats her like crap. Mariam gets really mad at her next door neighbor because she is pregnant with her third child and Mariam can’t even have a child. Nana and Mariam are alike because when they are both grown women and they are independent and endured a lot of hardships. “It’s normal, isn’t it? Isn’t it normal?” (81) Mariam is asking the women around her if it is normal that when she got out of the bath she was bleeding so much and at that point she knew something wasn’t right. Her life completely changed after that.
Alicia Scanlan
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