[Here is a picture of the burqa]
Some husbands force their wives to wear the burqa even if it is not necesseary for the woemn to wear it in their societies. Other women are forced to wear it becuase it is a law in their societies. If these women do not follow the law they are beaten, tortured or even killed. Then there are women who want to wear the burqa. I think if a women wants to wear the burqa, there is nothing wrong with it because she is choosing to wear it. But, if they are forced to wear it then I am totally against it. I mean what gives these men the rights to tell these women what to wear and do. What if these men were forced to cover their entire bodies, would they like it?
"Mariam had never before worn a burqa. Rasheed had to help her put it on. The padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull, and it was strange seeing the world through a mesh screen. She practiced walking around her room in it and kept stepping on the hem and stumbling. The loss of peripheral vision was unnerving, and she did not like the suffocating way the pleated cloth kept presing against her mouth." (pg. 65)
2 comments:
I picked up on the loss of peripheral vision in teh quote you pulled from the text. Could it be symbolic of how being forced to wear the burqa discourages the women from actually pushing the limits and thinking about how they are treated? Figuratively, they're mental peripheral vision, the ability to think that something other that what's real is right, is eliminated when they're forced to wear the burqa.
Oh wow thats a good connection. I never really thought of that. See the women down there are brought up and forced to do what ever the men think is right. Mariam fears that if she doesn't obey her husband he will beat her or maybe even kill her. He has already abused her once in this book. One time she made him dinner and he didn't like it so he went outside and grabed a handful of pebbles and rocks and stuffed them in her mouth and made her chew them until all her teeth were broken. He told her he wanted her to taste what he tasted when he ate her meals.
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