ENG4U0 | CONTEXT INQUIRY REPORT | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Kshitij Rane 1/6/2014 | Quote 1 (Topic Sentence 1) | Analysis | "Attention women:You will stay inside your homes at all times. It is not proper for women to wander aimlessly about the streets. If you go outside, you must be accompanied by a mahram-, a male relative. If you are caught alone on the streets, you will be beaten and sent home. You will not, under any circumstances, show your face.
They have strictly banned noisy shoes, cinemas, shopping and music and this has drastically affected a women’s ‘normal’ daily life. This explains that the women in Afghanistan don’t have the freedom and facilities to live with and it makes me realise what a luxurious life we live in. Due to their strict regulations, Parvana’s father was suddenly transported to prison as he was previously educated in England. This left his family in distraught and together they had no money, no one was employed and food and water was completely out of the question. They would go with no food or water for days and days and through words I felt for them.
The stereotyping of the Terror made Muslim women a symbol of an alien culture. Lila Abu-Lughod describes how Islam has been transformed and how its women have become the excuse for political and military interventions. These women’s live show us how varied and complicated a woman’s suffering can be. From the abuse of power by security police in Egypt, the most basic conditions of these women’s lives are set by political forces that are local in effect but national and international in origin. The book contains six chapters.
Women were also not allowed to make any form of deals or contracts for anything more than a bushel of barley. Many characteristics of Roman law demonstrated patriarchy. Ancient Roman law code displayed this in the Theodosian Law Code (331 CE). In the Code it says that no woman should give any notice to the husband about his drinking, gambling, or sexual relations with other woman. Also if a woman tried to call out her husband on being a murderer, and she is wrong, she would be sent to an island without any of her possessions and left to die stranded.
And that’s why film form can shape an audience’s experience. The movies audiences always have certain expectations on the film that they are going to see. These expectations usually affected by the film form techniques which had used since film form is capable of delivering messages to the audiences. When a scene use a close-up shot, it can isolate and emphasize specific details. Also, different camera angles and moving camera impart help the film to express and act in a particular way.
This book is centered on the burning of all books because they have been forbidden for many years. The firemen answer to a call to the home of a woman who has many books hidden in her attic. She is stubborn and does not leave her books, knowing that she along with the home would go up in flames (Bradbury, 35). In this scene, the woman is representative of a martyr in the Bible. She is actually giving up her life for what she believes is right and good for the society.
First of all, women are being stripped of their personal choices. Second, the victim will have a daily reminder of what happened to her. Not only that, but many girls are sexually abused at a very young age and don’t have the right resources to raise a child. The government should have no say in what a girl or woman does with her body, because they could never fully understand the suffering it would cause
The worst case is that the woman cannot give birth or even death at all. Many women are regretting around the world because what they do. Therefore why we choose abort when it takes away an unborn life and a woman take a high risk between sickness and death. Is it worth to risking your life? I had read a narrative story in Abortion: A Collective Story Book.
Maria’s mother acts fast and hides Maria and Alberto in the hole her father made for their safety. Maria’s mother scarifies herself for the safety of her children. If Maria’s mother went into the hole with them the Contras would of notice the untouched breakfast on the table and would search for them and kill them all. By Maria’s mother staying behind the Contras thought they got everyone in the house and would not search for Maria and Alberto. Trauma begins when Maria hears everything from the hole and the torturing and screaming of her mother.
Sometimes they weren’t able to vote for fear of being lynched by racists. People who tried to speak out were threatened with violence. Ida Wells, a newspaper writer, had her offices destroyed for writing an article on anti-lynching and was told to never return back to her home town on pain of