A thousand Splendid Suns

I continued reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, but really focused on how Mariam was treated. This was earlier in the book, but the reader really notices that Mariam really has no choices she can make on her own, in her life. Everything is either Jalil or her mother, Nana, and she does not like it. We see that as a child Nana always discouraged her of playing with the neighborhood kids, even though she wanted to and now we see that Jalil is giving her a life that she never chose for herself. She has to marry some old, weird stranger, live in a completely different city, and be thousand of miles away from her father, not really what she wanted right after her mother died. I think it is really sad and disappointing women were treated and how they never really had much of a say. Men could pick their wives while women had to hope that they would like their new husbands. It is just sad how less of role women played in society, they did not have many rights, and they could not make their own decisions in life, and overall were just not treated fairly. Mariam experiences this when having to marry the suitor, but she knows that she can not do anything about it.