A Thousand Splendid Suns question

Mariam, one of the leading characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns, had her father disown her at a very young age. She was the product of a scandalous affair and a monumental mistake, which at the time, was totally the fault of the woman. Mariam's Mother made sure Mariam new exactly what she was, nothing more than a harami. The opening sentence of the book is "Mariam was five years old when she first heard the word harami." Harami, which is the islamic word for bastard, was just one of the many mechanisms used to treat Mariam like she was nothing. She was treated this way so much she began to believe it herself. As mariam grows older, into her early teens, she has seen little more than the tiny kolba she lives in and what little surrounds it. She decided to run away to her dads house, there he would surely take her in and love her and she would get to live with all her brothers and sisters that her father had with his three wives. Her mother begs her not to go saying "I will die if you go". Mariam passing this off as melodrama and knows her mothers deep disdain for her runs off anyway. Her father pretends to not be home but is and after spending the whole night on her rich fathers doorstep in the freezing cold, Mariam is forcibly taken home by her fathers butler. She arrives home to see her mothers dead body hanging from a tree, believing it was her own fault for leaving, ever believing her father would take her in. After her father discovers this tragedy he forces Mariam to marry a man 40 years older than her at the age of 15. "That's a good solid marrying age for a girl." Of course it would only be a good solid marring age for a GIRL because of the extremist oppression of women in this time period. This whole book focuses around the social issue of the conditions for women in Afghanistan, while also captivating the spirit of the war.Mariam, one of the leading characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns, had her father disown her at a very young age. She was the product of a scandalous affair and a monumental mistake, which at the time, was totally the fault of the woman. Mariam's Mother made sure Mariam new exactly what she was, nothing more than a harami. The opening sentence of the book is "Mariam was five years old when she first heard the word harami." Harami, which is the islamic word for bastard, was just one of the many mechanisms used to treat Mariam like she was nothing. She was treated this way so much she began to believe it herself. As mariam grows older, into her early teens, she has seen little more than the tiny kolba she lives in and what little surrounds it. She decided to run away to her dads house, there he would surely take her in and love her and she would get to live with all her brothers and sisters that her father had with his three wives. Her mother begs her not to go saying "I will die if you go". Mariam passing this off as melodrama and knows her mothers deep disdain for her runs off anyway. Her father pretends to not be home but is and after spending the whole night on her rich fathers doorstep in the freezing cold, Mariam is forcibly taken home by her fathers butler. She arrives home to see her mothers dead body hanging from a tree, believing it was her own fault for leaving, ever believing her father would take her in. After her father discovers this tragedy he forces Mariam to marry a man 40 years older than her at the age of 15. "That's a good solid marrying age for a girl." Of course it would only be a good solid marring age for a GIRL because of the extremist oppression of women in this time period. This whole book focuses around the social issue of the conditions for women in Afghanistan, while also captivating the spirit of the war.