Motherhood

Question 1

“She was envious, suddenly, of the neighbourhood women and their wealth of children”

Answer 1

-adjective “wealth” shows the value Mariam holds on children

Question 2

“My daughters water has broken”

Answer 2

• Mariam using the claiming pronoun of “my” to refer to laila has her daughter shows the strong bond

Question 3

Laila crawled to her and again put her head on Mariams lap

Answer 3

• happens after they have killed Rasheed
  -“crawled” verb with childish connotations
• the childish imagery of a child’s head in her mothers lap shows that laila and Mariam are like mother and daughter