If a womnen is pregant, individuals in society tend to blame the woman more than the man. They think that it is the woman's fault for allowing her self to get accidently pregnant. The man can easily leave the woman if he wants to and not have to take part in any responsibility unlike a woman. A woman has to make a decision whether to keep the baby or raise it on her own. Reading a Thousand Splendid Suns shows the readers what is happening in society today and what has happened back then.
The first chapter of the story we start to learn that Mariam's mother Nana ended up pregnant when she was not married to a man. The man who is Mariams father, Jalil was forced to not take responsibilty in taking in or helping Nana and his unborn child. The reason for this is because society would talk about him so instead he sent out Nana to another city.
"Nana said, "Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accussing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam." (p.7)
A quote that Nana says to Maraim which I thought fit perfectly with how most men do excuse things on the women in their lives. Like for example, now we are starting to hear about how male athletes are doing bad once their wives or girlfriends come to watch their games. That these women are to blame for why these men are playing horribly or getting injured. In some countries if a women gets raped, the men tend to blame it on the women because the women were the ones making them do this. So, instead of punishing the man they punish the woman instead. I believe this incident happened in Saudia Arabia. There are many more incidents like these as well, where people are blaming the women for those problems.
Muslim Women
OH YESS!!! We are going to learn about the true beauty of women behind their veils.
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It's completely true that everything is blamed on a woman and that having a child sets her as a burden to society somewhat. A teacher once told me that a young female teacher who was recently married or is engaged is less likely to get hired to teach because their bosses expect them to have a child and take the time off for maternity leave. Because they are able to have a child, it is assumed they will and the schoolw ill have to pay for it.
Good connection with the sports players too! Any other connections you can think of?
oh yea I heard of that too lol, I think I was in your class cuz I heard the same exact story. There are other connections which I will have to bring up later on.
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