Mariam's Mother Come When They Come Analysis

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2. In the beginning of the book when Mariam’s mother tells her that, “Women like us. We Endure. It’s all we have.” you don't really want to believe her. You want to believe that Mariam has more to offer to this word than endurance and that she will go places in life. You think that the book might be here to prove her mother wrong about women only being there to endure, but it really seems to do the opposite. Mariam starts her journey of endurance when Jalil tells her that he will take her to his new cartoon movie at his theatre, but Mariam finds out that he abandoned her and left her to sit on the streets all night because he was ashamed of having a “harami.” She then goes home devastated only to find that her mother hung herself out of grief for her child. Mariam continues to endure at …show more content…

In Laila’s childhood, her mom was never really a mother figure to her. She seemed to care more about the two sons that weren’t there, rather than the daughter who tried to care for her and was still involved in her life. She would try to talk and connect with her mother who sat in bed worrying about her sons and this would just end with her mom telling stories about her them. She wouldn’t even sound like she was talking to Laila, it seemed like she was just remembering out loud. When the news came about Laila’s brothers’ deaths, her mom was destroyed. It was one thing for her to miss them but now she knew for a fact that she would never see them again. All of these distractions really made Laila’s mom all but forget her as the shadow of her sons grew even larger over her. This really made Laila wonder why you would have more children if you didn’t have enough love for them. I think that because she learned this when she was young, Laila had a good understanding of how much you should love your child and not to let things get in the way of it. When Laila became pregnant, she had all of these thoughts in mind because she witnessed firsthand how much love is needed as a

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