"To reach Yasmina's farm we only had to travel a few hours, but it might as well have been one of Aunt Habiba's faraway islands in the China Sea. Women on the farm did things we'd never even heard of in the city,like fishing, tree climbing, and bathing in a stream that was rushing on to the Sebou River before heading to the Atlantic Ocean. The women even started Participating in horseback riding competitions, after Tamou arrived from the North. ... oh they were wild on Yasmina's farm." (Dreams of Trespass pg. 67-72)
Yasmina's farm seems like a Utopia for these women because it is the only place that women actually are aloud to have some freedom and do things that are unheard of in other Harems. Yasmina's farm is a place that most women, especially the narrator envies. They wish that one day they can have that same freedom as these women on the farm do. When the narrator tells us that the farm is only a few hours away, she says that it should be a faraway island because it is something completely different then what they are used to.
Throughout the novel we see that these women wish for a perfect society where women and men are treated equal. Throughout the novel the mothers wish for their daughters that they will be able to go to school and get a job just like the boys do. It is something that some women in some countries still wish today. Some Arab countries are still not treating women equally with men. It's not only the Arab countries but other countries as well. America still has some inequalities between men and women but they do not show as much.
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OH YESS!!! We are going to learn about the true beauty of women behind their veils.
2 comments:
Just a clarifying question:
The farm is a harem, is it not? I noticed that you said women of other harems envy Yasmina's farm so I figured that you were alluding to them envying a better harem.
If I'm righ tin drawing that conclusion--what makes the man that controls the farm's harem different from other men. Does the book say how that man is treated by the other haerm's men?
Actually that is a geat question. They never ever mention how the other men feel about each other in the book. It seems that they only mention how the women feel. This novel is in first person narrative. The readers only see the young girls point of view. I will have to get back to you on that once I get further into the book.
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