Childhood Flashcards
“I’ve seen nine-year-old girls given to men twenty years older than your suitor”
-shows the culture in the country
-tainted/ruined childhood
“Mariam wrote it out, her name- the meem, the Reh, the yah and the meem”
-this is first said when Mariam marries Jalil and is repeated when she signs to her death sentence
-shows the cycle of her life of pain
- childish actions of spelling her name shows how she longs for her childhood
She dreamed of pebbles, eleven of them..Jalil’s winning smile and dimpled chin… Mullah Faizullah twirling his rosary beads walking with her along the stream, their twin shadows gliding on the water. She dreamed of nana in the doorway of the kolba calling to her for dinner as Mariam played in cool, tangled grass where ants crawled and beetles scurried. The squeak of a wheelbarrow. Cowbell clanging.”
-sensory language from her childhood
-shows the cycle of her life
-longing for the past
- peaceful imagery shows she has come to peace with her death
