Sunday, May 18, 2008

Kabul Beauty School Chapter 8

If I were Miss Debbie I would feel really disrespected if my husband was having another kid to another wife after we were married. I know the customs are different for them but still he knows she is American and is trying to change some of his ways to accommodate her. I would also be scared like she is because so far his other wife had done nothing but bear him daughters and over there they want sons. Then she finds out that she finally gives him one and could lose him to his other because she does not want to have anymore children. What I don't get is that Miss Debbie already has two sons of her own. So, why can't her already having two sons still count? Like is it because they aren't his by birth? Like they still treat each other the same way.
It would be hard over there to be a women and having the men over there control you all the time and have all the say in what happens in your life. That would frustrate me so much not to be able to make my own decisions on what happens to me. If I was Mina i would just take my son and run away. But if she did that they would most likely die so I can see why she wouldn't. It would be hard though to have to take all the beatings she gets and the fear of losing her son to her awful husband all the time. I would not be able to stand this and I don't see how the women over there do. I also don't understand why there families let the men treat their daughters like that. Wouldn't their daughters getting beat and mistreated all the time make their family look bad?

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