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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Book Club 10/28
This week for book club we only read two chapters because we are ahead. However a lot happened in the two chapters. My favorite part of this weeks reading was to see the progress Sultana has made as a female. Although she is getting married at a young age, her situation is working to her advantage. She is the first female to ever meet and chat with her fiancé before the wedding. This shows progress for females in the middle east.
Kareem, Sultana's new husband, is not the typical Saudi Arabian man. He admires how high spirited Sultana is. He also respects her as a person and does not force her into any relations she doesn't want to partake in. As I was reading I almost felt that this situation was too good to be true. However, as the book goes on it foreshadows a downfall because of his mother. His mother despises Sultana's actions and believes. It is evident that she is going to try and ruin their marriage.
As I read these chapters I felt proud of Sultana. Her actions and high spirited ways make her one of a kind. The wedding was a great festival that everyone enjoyed, even though in the past everyone dreaded it. Her behaviors and attitude is hopefully only the beginning of progress for females.
Kareem, Sultana's new husband, is not the typical Saudi Arabian man. He admires how high spirited Sultana is. He also respects her as a person and does not force her into any relations she doesn't want to partake in. As I was reading I almost felt that this situation was too good to be true. However, as the book goes on it foreshadows a downfall because of his mother. His mother despises Sultana's actions and believes. It is evident that she is going to try and ruin their marriage.
As I read these chapters I felt proud of Sultana. Her actions and high spirited ways make her one of a kind. The wedding was a great festival that everyone enjoyed, even though in the past everyone dreaded it. Her behaviors and attitude is hopefully only the beginning of progress for females.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
book club 2
This past week we read up to chapter 11. After reading this chapters my opinion regarding Saudi men have become more negative. In this weeks reading, Sultana's mother passed away and her father remarried a 15 year old girl only 4 months after his late wife's passing. This incidence made me lose even more respect for these men because there was no sympathy for the Sultana's mother. As I was reading I learned that to mourn is to go against God's will in this religion. However, I could not overcome my anger in this situation.
Another incident that made me ever more hateful of the men in this culture. Is when Ali and his friend were traveling in Cairo. The boys were caught buying little girls and raping them. Unfortunately in these societies this is an accepted behavior. I still can not fathom how this is allowed. It made me realize how lucky women are here in the USA. While this was going on, his friend was practicing to be a relgious figure, yet still taking part in the rapes. He would also say these incidents occurred all because of the women and their "evilness." I think it is insane that a human being could have a thought process like this.
It is clear that events like this is what angers Sultana and makes her want to change the lives for women there. I feel that this book is an effort to reveal the truth about the society. Although the story of the princess is written by an author, not by her self, I feel that the emotions, experiences and stories hold extreme truth. I feel the author and the princess must have spent countless hours together in order to do the Princess justice in the story.
Another incident that made me ever more hateful of the men in this culture. Is when Ali and his friend were traveling in Cairo. The boys were caught buying little girls and raping them. Unfortunately in these societies this is an accepted behavior. I still can not fathom how this is allowed. It made me realize how lucky women are here in the USA. While this was going on, his friend was practicing to be a relgious figure, yet still taking part in the rapes. He would also say these incidents occurred all because of the women and their "evilness." I think it is insane that a human being could have a thought process like this.
It is clear that events like this is what angers Sultana and makes her want to change the lives for women there. I feel that this book is an effort to reveal the truth about the society. Although the story of the princess is written by an author, not by her self, I feel that the emotions, experiences and stories hold extreme truth. I feel the author and the princess must have spent countless hours together in order to do the Princess justice in the story.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Book Club Post for 10/8
My group has read the first five chapters of Princess: A True Story Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia. First I would like to say I had so many reactions while reading these first chapters. The lifestyle that the women face in the middle east is inhumane. I was unaware of just how awful females were treated in areas like Saudia Arabia.
The main character, the youngest girl of the Royal Family, is rebellious and skeptical of her families culture. She has a strong hatred for her brother Ali. She is constantly ruining his belongings out of resentment and anger, and I can't say that I blame her.
The father and all of the males in the story are cold, stern and abusive to women. The father, the head of the Royal family has four wires and 22 daughters which angers him greatly. He spends his money on so absurdly that he even has four of the same houses with the exact same things inside of them. I found that ridiculous. The father forces his daughter to marry a sixty year old man. Sara goes into a deep depression and eventually tries to kill herself because her husband is forcing her to do unnatural sexual activities. The father still sides with the husband yet agrees to make him divorce her. The father and all men in this culture believe that men can do no wrong even when they murder their wives.
So far, I find this book eye opening, I was not aware of just how cruel the males were to the females in the middle easter society. I was also unaware of limited the women were.
The main character, the youngest girl of the Royal Family, is rebellious and skeptical of her families culture. She has a strong hatred for her brother Ali. She is constantly ruining his belongings out of resentment and anger, and I can't say that I blame her.
The father and all of the males in the story are cold, stern and abusive to women. The father, the head of the Royal family has four wires and 22 daughters which angers him greatly. He spends his money on so absurdly that he even has four of the same houses with the exact same things inside of them. I found that ridiculous. The father forces his daughter to marry a sixty year old man. Sara goes into a deep depression and eventually tries to kill herself because her husband is forcing her to do unnatural sexual activities. The father still sides with the husband yet agrees to make him divorce her. The father and all men in this culture believe that men can do no wrong even when they murder their wives.
So far, I find this book eye opening, I was not aware of just how cruel the males were to the females in the middle easter society. I was also unaware of limited the women were.
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