2. Losing Freedom and Opportunities
Under the control of Mujahideen, the country became the Islamic State of Afghanistan. Mujahideen adopted Islamic law Shari ’a and implemented it
to the country. All the women had to use veil. They also could not work in the office and could not go to school. Mujahideen rejected all the reforms from
the previous regime, such as women’s rights. Women had loss their opportunities to have an education and loss their freedom to work. All of
them were forbid to work outside home. All they had to do was becoming a housewife. This quotation below was taken from the novel.
The freedoms and opportunities that women had enjoyed between 1978 and 1992 were a thing of the past now. Since the Mujahideen takeover in
April 1992, Afghanistan’s name had been changed to the Islamic State of Afghanistan. The Supreme Court under Rabbani was filled now with
hardliner mullahs who did away with the communist-era decrees that empowered women and instead passed rulings based on Shari ‘a, strict
Islamic laws that ordered women to cover, forbade their travel without a male relative, punished adultery with stoning 253.
Mujahideen wanted to completely remove all the Soviet Union law that gave women power to choose what they wanted to do. Mujahideen stated
some rules for women and they would punish them with stoning if women broke the laws.
3. Sufferings
The war which happened in Afghanistan gave the bad effects to the environment. The setting of the novel was in the Kabul, the capital city of
Afghanistan. The war ruined the building up to 70 percent. Many people died
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and many houses were destroyed. Laila was also felt suffer because she loss everything that she loved. Her house got hit by a rocket and her parents died.
She looked up to the sky. Shielded her eyes with one hand. Then a giant roar.
Behind her, a flash of white. The ground lurched beneath her feet.
Something hot and powerful slammed into her from behind. The last thing she was aware of was seeing something thud to the ground
nearby. A bloody chunk of something 188. Laila was suffered enough because of the rocket. Fortunately, she could
be safe with minor injuries, whereas the rocket smashed her house into rubble. “It hurts everywhere. Her chest hurts. Her arms and legs hurt” 189.
Mariam and Rasheed saved her life then she lived in Rasheed’s house. She was suffered a lot since her home was destroyed, her parents died and her
lover moved out from the city. It was Rasheed who found the girl, who dug her out from beneath the
rubble. He helped Mariam watch over the girl that first week. One day, he came home from work with a new blanket and pillow. Another day, a
bottle of pills 194.
C. Taliban Regime
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