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.
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