“There were other traumatic initiations, some of which illustrated
…” to “became a constant reminder of it” (2)
1)
The passage talks about the reasons why
Zaat’s parents wanted Zaat to remove a feminine organ. It really shows the
difference in opinions between the two parents. While the dad wants to remove
it so it doesn’t cause his daughter pain, the mother wants to remove it because
she didn’t want Zaat to have something she didn’t have the chance to have.
2)
This passage mostly has long sentences
instead of short sentences. Those sentences contain a lot of description which
is the reason why it is so long.
3)
Some questions I have are why the mom
would hurt her daughter just because she was hurt? I thought that mothers
should protect their daughters no matter what, no matter their past because
they need to give their daughter the best.
4)
I believe that this passage is very
important for the book as a whole. What happens in this chapter, the decision
to cut her feminine organ, is going to come back to Zaat in the next chapters
when she is older and married. It will set the ground as to why Zaat and her
husband’s sex life isn’t what it should be, that Zaat doesn’t get the pleasure
she should get from sex.
“But then, why search so far afield when their street, which had
been so peaceful and shaded when they moved into it, had filled with small
stores and car mechanics’ workshops and was covered in sewage and rubbish. The
adjacent spare land that had been planned as a garden was now a dump. The walls
of the building itself had turned black …” (43)
1)
This passage talks about the new apartment
Zaat acquired when she got married. It also talks about how different it was
now that it was furnished, how horrible it had become.
2)
In this passage there are a lot of
descriptions. This passage is also extremely short because it only described
the loft, nothing more.
3)
I wonder why Zaat thinks that way about
her loft now. I also wonder if she is going to change the wonder of the loft as
the book goes on.
4)
I do not think that this passage is
really important to the book as a whole. It could only describe Zaat’s new
emotions on her marriage but that is the entire theme of the book so I do not
think that this passage is particularly important.
“She stood there before him just as he had imagined her:
captivating foreign perfume, a dress of expensive cloth in coordinated colors
(although he would not have been at all surprised if, underneath all that, she
had been wearing flip-flops as well), and a fair complexion (that Turkish
fairness tinged with red, not the pasty European). She wore a sheer black scarf
and two shy eyes peered coyly out, avoiding collisions with other people’s
eyes. Apart from all that there was something else he had not expected” (85).
1)
This passage is about Zaat’s husband and
his views on a woman that is not Zaat. It talks about how he looks like another
woman the way he should look at Zaat.
2)
There are only three sentences in this passage.
That is because the first sentence is so long because it describes how the
woman looks like.
3)
I wonder why Zaat’s husband has never
looked at Zaat the way he looks at this woman. I also wonder whether this will
lead to him cheating on Zaat.
4)
I think this passage is really important
to the whole book. It shows that Zaat and her husband do not have a good
relationship and they do not find each others that attractive. This passage
could also foreshadow an affair if Zaat’s husband starts cheating on Zaat.
