Enduring Love Chapter 4 Analysis

Chapter four starts out with an anecdote explaining how Malala’s grandfather did not help out financially with her Woma celebration because she was a girl, not a boy. (Woma being a traditional celebration on the seventh day of a child's life.) Throughout the chapter she starts to notice and disagree with the divide between how women and men are treated, especially in rural areas, such as her family's village. When Malala goes to the village, all of the women cook food for the men and take care of children, that's all anyone believes they are good for. “My mother and I stayed in the women's quarters downstairs. The women spent their days looking after the children and preparing food to serve to the men in their hujra upstairs.” It could be a
It starts when a cousin of hers yelled at her dad for Malala not covering her face. It really escalates when she starts to hear stories of little girls being married off to old men, as well as other arranged marriages the girls don't want. Whenever they played the game wedding as children, the wife would cry because that's usually how it is in that area, women aren't happy with who they get married too. It’s common for girls to just disappear, most commonly victims from these arrangements. The others sometimes are killed by their own family for bringing them shame in some way. For example, In her culture, it is very shameful for a girl to flirt. This happened to a beautiful girl named in the village who was murdered by her own family because she batted her eyelashes at a guy. The worst though, is that women are used as objects in trade and revenge, even if they were never involved in the situation. If two tribes are clashing, the winning one will sometimes demand for the losing tribes best women. On some occasions, these women have been then forced to marry the winning tribe’s least eligible
Malala associates her own lessons of greed with the ever-changing governmental regimes of Pakistan by first telling a story about her own childhood. She had a friend names Safina who stole her toy phone, and didn't admit to it when Malala saw her with it. Malala decided to take revenge on Safina and began stealing her things whenever she went over to her house to study. This went on and got worse as time went by. “At first stealing gave me a thrill, but that did not last long. Soon it became a compulsion. I did not know how to stop” Luckily her parents found out and after giving Malala a chance to turn herself in, which she didn't, they talked to her about it and made her apologize to Safina’s family. This however did not stop Malala from making up excuses, but her mom responding that she should have set an example made her stop and genuinely feel bad about the wrong she had committed. Another example of stealing from Malala’s childhood was when she stole a handful of almonds from a cart at the bazar. The cart owner was furious. Then when Malala’s father found out, he bought the whole cart, even though they had barely any money to do so, and the almonds served Malala as a reminder of her guilt. Malala then swore she would never steal again or wear jewelry because they are just things, nothing of real importance. “What are these baubles that tempt me? Why should I lose my character for a few metal trinkets?” Malala stopped, however politicians in Pakistan continue to steal