Monday, December 6, 2010

Staircase of A Thousand Steps (101-160)

Summary
Rafa thinks of all the decisions she has to make on her own. She thinks of her daughter's future and how life will be different for them, if she divorces her husband. Faridah says that she did all she could to save Rafa's mother but she failed. Even though she tried everything in her power, the people in the village comdenmed her ever since. Rafa takes all of her husband's saving in before she left him. While they are in the cave Adil and his nephew come and leave without spotting Rafa. Harif and Faridah look back in the past they had for the first time. Faridah still loves Harif and wishes that she was his wife. Jammana goes back to the past and sees a mysterious woman. Her grandfather quotes the same thing the woman says. Jammana suspects that the adults are keeping a secret from her. She follows her grandfather secretively and he does not notice her until she gets there. Harif was banished from the village after his second vision because the villagers think that he brings misfortune to the village. Jammana exposes the memory she is been having about her mother's birth. Tension builds between Faridah and Rafa, which pressures Faridah to explain her dream. When Harif returned to the villager Faridah was unhappy because he returned with a fiance.
Quote
"The most spontaneous act of her life, i would guess" (Hamilton 141).
Reaction
After Faridah says that it shows that she was jealous of Rafa's mother. This is figurialexplicit because through her words, anyone can describe Faridah. This quote also shows that there is a lot of history between Faridah and Harif. This shows that Faridah and Harif were lovers and were ashamed of it because she had married before and she is six years older than him. All her jealosie is because of Harif.

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