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In the last chapters, Nujood and her family are doing well. Nujoods divorce is been going viral.The news has been spreading outside the towns of Yemen into Saudi Arabia. This is know because Nujoods brother Fares has returned home after four years. His mother and family thought he was tricked into human trafficking. Nujood said”How […]
Nujood has been granted a divorce. She is no longer going through the pain she once had to deal with. Nujood said”My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me.(Nujood,129). From the tough experience Nujood […]
Nujood’s sister Mona said”I wasn’t much older than Nujood when I was forced to marry him.”(Mona,135) .When she was younger,Mona use to watch her little sister Nujood and her two brothers.Her mom went away for special treatment for her health problems and her father would wake up early to heard the sheep.A man about thirty […]
Today is the big day. Nujood is in court with Shada, who has been like a second mother. The courthouse is fuller than it’s ever been. While Nujood waits for the decision on her divorce. They bring out her monster of a husband and Aba(Her father). The judge asks her husband if he has ever abused her […]
In this chapter, Nujood flashes back to the beginning of her marriage. For the past three nights she explains how she is brutally raped by her husband. Her mother in-law and sister in-law don’t see anything wrong with the situation. Nujood’s husband would not only physically abuse her but verbally abuse her as well. He […]
In this chapter Nujood comes back to whats happening in the present.She has gotten acquainted with Shada;a female lawyer in Yemen. Shada wont stop until Nujood is free. She said”We need to do everything we can to get Nujood out of the clutches of her husband.”(Shada,79). For the past few days, Nujood has been staying […]
In this chapter, The book flashes back. Nujood is to be married soon.Her father made up his mind once he has spoken to a man who is looking for a wife.I think this is gross because Nujood is only 10 years old. She’s nothing but a child. While reading i can tell Nujood knows nothing […]
Nujood flashes back to the time before she went to the courthouse.Everything in her life seemed fine and worth living. She had a care free life.She wasn’t allowed to attend school because her father believed she was to fragile.Most of the women in her village were illiterate anyway. Nujood said”We were living rather happily, to the rhythm of sun.It was […]
Ive read the first two chapters of this book and ive alreday come up with some questions. The story talks about how this guy named David use to fantasize about a girl name Julia the entire semester of biology. He discribed her as”Perpetually tan and had a physisique that always rendered me speechless.”(Narrartor,1) Then suddenly he […]
Lakshmi has been visited by an American once before and he gave her a card. She took it from him after he offered her away from the Happiness House. Why did Lakshmi go with him?Why didn’t she just take that ticket out. Was it because of the things the other girls told her about American?Many […]
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