Week 6 Post B

This book is such a great book, but the tragedy is so sad. This book has just been getting more and more depressing. I find myself getting my hopes up for Laila and Mariam, but always something terrible follows. This section of reading started off happy with Laila meeting Tariq, who she thought was dead. She meets with him, but Zalmai lets word slip to Rasheed, when he is questioned by him. Rasheed asks Zalmai to go upstairs and gets out his belt and more violently than ever starts beating Laila. Mariam is constantly trying to fend Rasheed off but fails. And then all of a sudden Laila is gushing blood and Rasheed has his hand wrapped around her throat, and is definetly going to kill her, unless Mariam is able to stop him. Mariam runs to the garage and returns with a shovel. She strikes Rasheed with the shovel and he is knocked out. However, she knows that if she lets him live he could easily go upstairs and get his gun and shoot her, Laila and Zaila, so she does what she has to and kills him.

"I meant it. I meant it for you, Laila jo"(318).

This quote shows how unselfish Mariam is. She killed Rasheed so Laila could go on to live a happy life. She sacrificed her life and Rasheed's so for Laila. She is most definetly a hero. This is also shown by her turning herself into the police and being executed, unfairly. Laila can now go on to live her life with Tariq and reunite her children, by rescuing Aziza from the orphanage.