Staircase of A Thousand Steps(161-210)

Summary
When Ahmed comes and tries to make Jammana choose, he assumes that no one can turn her against him. He tries to force Jammana to tell where her mother was but Faridah sstands up to him. Jammana tells her father that her and her mother has a surprise him. Harif wed his wife because it was beneficial he never loved her. Faridah remembers the first night of their wedding. Harif came to her and left his wife at home. After that Harif refused to go back to her. When the villagers came in the morning to see the bloody sheet, she tricked them by cutting herself to make it seems like Harif spent the night with her. Hannan told Harif she would not leave. After that Faridah was able to bear a child since the offspring was Harif's baby, Hannan made Harif her something that killed the child. These factors provoked tension between Hannan and Faridah, the women never talked until Hannan became pregnant. Faridah had intension of poisonning Hannan while she was pregnant but didnt until she died of natural causes. These memories make Faridah wonders of what would happen if Harif had married her. In the morning Harif and Ahmed argued of why their generation had not been able to bear any boy. Rafa comes back and tells Ahmed why she is mad at him and wants him to give their saving to the family he had hurt.
Quote
"But actually, Faridah is a bit taller" (Hamilton 72).
Reaction
This quote is authorial explicit because the author is describing a character. I think the author uses it to emphases that Faridah has a lot of power and knowledge. It showing that she on top of all the people in the village. It is basically why she does not fit in with them. She does not belive in their tradition and has an advance knowledge of the world than them. All the people in the village are conservatives the want things to stay the way they were generations ago while the world is advancing foward. For example when a woman is in labor they have to drink water that their husbands wash their feet from. My perspective is that, that water has a lot of germs which will lead to diseases. But from their view, it protects the woman. I think most people from the village are inane and ignorant.