Suffering/perseverants Flashcards
1
Q
“It’s our lot in life Mariam. Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have.”
A
-short sentences show the bluntness of this path on life and the nihilism of it.
2
Q
“She remembered nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved women somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up in the sky, gathered into clouds then broke into tiny pieces”
A
-expectations of women and what they just endure
-contrasting imagery of nature with human grievances
-“broke into tiny pieces”- women must break and then stick themselves back together
