Laila, Mariam, and Aziza make their escape but they’re paranoid about getting caught. “Everywhere [Laila] looked, [she] saw Rasheed.” It was as if he was omnipresent and tormenting her thoughts. A sour attitude is created when she sees him “…coming out of barbershops with windows the color of coal dust…from battered, open fronted stores packed with old tires...” but her mood soon switches when she is closer to freedom at the train station. She feels “…the warmth of the morning sun, [and feels] giddy and bold…”when she’s looking for the perfect looking man to trust.”False face must hide what the false heart doth know” is one thing Laila must have never learned all the years her father taught her. Maybe the author of Macbeth should have written it sooner because the kind eyed man that agrees to help them turns them in and they get sent home to the torture of a lifetime.
The new rules of Afghanistan had Rasheed’s approval written all over it! Anything a woman or man did wrong was punishable by a beating or loosing of a limb. Laila even agrees with me when Rasheed says he could get rid of Aziza any time he wanted. “Laila shot him a disgusted look. ‘I’m making a point,’ he said. ‘You’re just like them.’”
There is symbolism when Laila should be giving birth but the baby refuses to come out even though it’s time is past due. Just like how her wedding ring was too small, the pen didn’t work to sign the contract, and now they had to literally cut Rasheed’s son out of her womb. Rasheed isn’t the one she should be with; Laila should be with Tariq! It’s always been Tariq, even when she thought him dead. They were friends from the beginning, known by everyone (except themselves at first) that they had feelings for each other, expected to be married, easily and without much thought of the consequences- they had sex, and Laila gave birth to a beautiful baby girl that came out with no fault. Now Tariq is miraculously alive! This story better straighten itself up and have a RIGHT ending!
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