The foster mother of the second home was a very mean, cruel and verbally abusive to April. They would say things to April and she started to believe that they were true, like her parents been drunks and not wanting her or her sister anymore, telling her that First Nations people were dirty and thief’s. April graduates from school and had good grades in her classes. She then marries and moves away to start her life with her husband. After been married for some time she ends up having issues in her marriage.
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, Laila at a young age endures hardships the likes of which most women could not imagine while in the midst of constant conflict and instability of the Middle East.. Dealing with the loss of a man she believed to be deceased and his return, submission into a loveless marriage, the birth of a harami or bastard child, and the death of her parents cause her to experience emotional turmoil. Along with her husband’s beatings she is a woman who many are able to see through the eyes of and feel pity and anguish throughout her journey. In a hopeless place where one can only hope, Hosseini takes the reader through what some may consider a living hell for women of the time period. Laila is main protagonist of the story, though she is not known of until the second part of the novel, the reader would display the most empathy for her.
Mariam, the elder of the two, is ‘a harami’ the illegitimate daughter of Jalil, a prosperous businessman and one of his housekeepers. After a tragic death of her mother, when Mariam is only 15, her father marries her off to Rasheed, a much older Kabul shoemaker. After a few relatively peaceful years, after it becomes apparent that Mariam will not bear Rasheed the son he expected, his behavior escalates into constant verbal and physical abuse. At this time her life intersects with Laila’s, whose parents were killed in a rocket attack, as the family was preparing to flee the country to Pakistan. When Mariam and Rasheed come to the girl’s aid, she is approximately the same age as Mariam at the time of her marriage to Rasheed.
A difference of opinion or a clash of personality is bound to occur every now and then. In Bloom’s How To Write about Tennessee Williams, scholar Jennifer Banach gives the reader an insight into the Wingfield family when she notes, “…the characters are deeply complex, round characters. They are not only individuals with their own personalities and flaws, but they are also able to represent something greater” (89). In Tennessee Williams’ acclaimed drama The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield is pushed to the limit by his overbearing mother; as a result, he makes a life-changing decision which affects the entire family. Tom serves as a round character.
One of these specific laws stated that, “If you keep parakeets, you will be beaten. Your birds will be killed” (276). The Taliban prohibited any form of entertainment from flying kites, parakeets and even laughter for the people living in Kabul. As Miriam continues to fail to bear a boy child for Rasheed, he becomes more and more angry with her. Miriam must deal simultaneously with her husband’s anger towards her and with the war that is going on.
All of Alvarez’s book are situation based surrounding horrifying experiences of girls during there lives in the tyranny of the Dominican Republic, under Trujillo’s bloody rule, and their assimilation into American culture. In the case of Anita, the main character of Before We Were Free, her home life in the Dominican is endangered by her parent’s involvement in attempting to over throw the dictator. This is the perspective from those who stayed, when the rest of the family fled the dangers of righteous entanglements fall upon those who stayed. In the Garcia Girl’s their uncle is the one wrapped up in dangerous behaviors and so they’re immediate family flees. This story is from the perspective of these who got away, safely.
The final step is the return back to the interpreted realm, bringing back the transformation of consciousness. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, An-mei’s mother suffers of rape, immediately causing herself to depart into a cruel world without her daughter, social acceptance, and a place to live. Forced to eventually care for An-mei as a fourth wife, An-mei’s mother realizes the poor conditions An-mei is set to grow up in, and kills herself to rid herself of her own weak spirit to make An-mei’s stronger. This action shocks Wu Tsing, into raising An-mei as if she were from his first wife, thus making An-mei a bold and confident child. Through challenges and trials that An-mei’s mother overcome for her daughter, she is granted with the qualities of a full-fledged hero from Campbell’s perspective.
As home is transformed one adapts and maintains what one can of tradition. The dying words of Laila's father, killed by a bomb while in the seeming safety of their home, quote lines from Saib-e-Tabrizi in praise of Kabul: "One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls." The stories of Mariam and Laila begin independent of one another even as they live a few doors apart in Kabul. When a bomb falls on Laila's home, killing her parents, she is taken in by Mariam and her husband Rasheed, one of the most evil incarnate characters in the modern novel. Mariam was married to him when she was fifteen.
The story is about a young girl called Adeline Yen Mah who has a hard life. Her mother died while giving birth to her so she is considered an unlucky child. She is always treated unequally to her six other siblings. After her mother died her father married a woman called Niag. When the family moved to Shanghai to live with her the children found out that she was an evil wicked stepmother.
Secondly, the main character had three mothers that happened to be sisters. One of them became pregnant before marriage and in order to hide the identity of the one that was pregnant, the other two mimicked the symptoms of pregnancy so it was impossible to tell which one was the real mother. The mothers had to live with the shame that came from themselves and the people of their village. Lastly, Sufiya Zinobia Hyder, the women that married Omar, felt shame all of her life. Sufiya’s father did not want a daughter, he was ashamed of her.