Isolation Flashcards
“He would bring her to Herat, to live in his house, just like his other children.”
-“other” adjective emphasised her loneliness and rejection from society.
“A solitary eleventh pebble”
-“solitary” referenced her loneliness
-metaphor for how she has been discarded and outcast from her siblings
“Now all those familiar things were gone. Nana was dead and she was here in a strange city, seperated from the life she had known by valleys and chains of snow capped mountains”
-isolation and seperation
-nature description emulates comfort
“Miriam knew to go upstairs to her room and close the door…Rasheed had told Mariam that she was not to come down until the visitors had left.”
-verbs “knew” show the expectations she must abide by
-“told”, “close”, “not” restrictions
-theme of isolation
-expectations of women
