blog #2

So Mariam moves to Kabul with her new husband, Rasheed. She learned how to become a good wife to him. She cooks, cleaned after him, washed his clothes, and catered to him in everyway necessary. She stopped being scared of him and actually liked being in his presence. Rasheed was a good husband until she miscarried there must anticipated child. Over the years she lost a total of 7 babies. With the death of each he hated her more. Mariam was scared of him now. I think Rasheed thought of Mariam as a failure. He treated her like dirt. He didn’t understand that Mariam was hurting even more with his hardship. He makes cover herself from head to toe before going out. Once he claimed that the food she had made him was nasty and he claimed that he was tired of her feeding him nasty food. He then walked out of the house came back in with a handful of rocks. Rasheed stuffed those rocks into Mariam’s mouth and made her chew. When she was done she had two broken molars. I don’t think the food was a problem; I just think he needed an excuse to torture her. Throughout this whole ordeal she was trying to tell him something, but she wouldn’t hear it. I think Mariam was trying to tell Rasheed she was pregnant.