Theme: Loyalty Flashcards
(3 cards)
Loyalty
“a harami was an unwanted thing: that she, Mariam, would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance.” - Mariam, Chapter 1
AO1 - Italics, asyndetic lists
AO2 - Italics emphasise the hurt in the label that isolates
Mariam from everyone, including her own mother (The asyndetic list foreshadows how Mariam’s struggle
to find love, loyalty and belonging will have no end)
AO3 - Children born out of wedlock in
Afghanistan are heavily frowned upon; “harami” translated to English means ‘unwelcome’ or
unwanted’
AO4 - Heathcliff is taken into the Heights as an orphan
who is badly abused, mirroring the suffering
Mariam goes through for being the same illegitimate
child
Loyalty
“A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands. How could she jeopardize the only thing she had left of him, of her old life?” - Lailia, Chapter 30
AO1 - Metaphor
AO2 - Serves as a metaphor for the hope Laila carries
with her always despite her marriage to Rasheed (no loyalty for her husband)
AO4 - Tariq looming around Laila after his “death” much like
how Catherine Earnshaw “haunts” Heathcliff
Loyalty
“when she [Aziza] did that, Mariam swooned. Her eyes watered. Her heart took flight. And she marvelled at how, after all these years of rattling loose, she had found in this little creature the first true connection in her life of false, failed connections.” - Mariam, Chapter 35
AO1 - Short, declarative sentences and sensory language
AO2 - Mariam has finally found love in a place as hopeless
as Rasheed’s household after a long and tired life. Mariam’s senses are overwhelmed which is shown through
the sensory language and short sentences. Mariam’s love for Aziza is her saving grace, because
it gives a purpose which inevitably gives her the
strength and ability to carry on.
AO4 - Catherine’s loyalties regarding Heathcliff and Edgar (Edgar’s love for Catherine shows that familiar, innocent
love is stronger than passion. However, Catherine shows
how ‘fickle’ people can be about love, as she marries for
status which she then has to sacrifice the love she carries
for Heathcliff.)
