Rasheed Characters

Have you ever sacrificed something for a greater good? Lalia sacrifices her happiness because she values friendship,family, and trust. Laila's parents died when she was 15. She was pregnant from her friend Tariq who moved away. She moved in with Rasheed and Mariam and eventually married and slept with Rasheed. She and Mariam weren’t close at first then grew close to each other in the end. Sadly, due to some difficult circumstances Rasheed was killed and Laila helped hid the body. They were caught and Lalia left to have a better life while Mariam got executed for killing her late husband Rasheed. Laila scarified the happiness she knew since she was little because she valued friendship, family, and trust. Lalia values friendship: “You win. You win. Don’t do this. Please Rasheed no beating! Please don’t do this.” (page. 241) She had finally got this fantastic relationship with Mariam Rasheed’s other wife and the thought of her being beat and didn’t want to accept that. Laila knew that when Rasheed got angry he also got abusive. Thus, She didn’t want anything bad to happen to Mariam so she stopped Rasheed from beating her. Doing this she risked getting beat herself but her friendship was way more
250) Lalia knows that she has done something terrible in the eyes of Rasheed. She knows that giving him a daughter was the worst thing she could do to him. The fact that Mariam told her that he will not forgive her and she will pay for that shows her that Mariam isn’t a bad person and that as the only two wives they have to stick together. Lalia trust that Mariam is not lying to her and she could trust her. The book also shows that lalia trusts Mariam when Mariam stated: “ For me it ends here.”(page. 358) Mariam has killed Rasheed and wants Lalia to leave and let her handle it. Though Lalia does not want to go she trust that Mariam is doing this for the right reasons and only to protect