Pages 24 and 25 describe Aisha, the second daughter, falling love.
1. Explain why the experience of falling in love involves fear. You might have to speculate because we haven't heard about her parents' attitude toward their children being in love yet.
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2. Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
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3. "She seemed to be a person throwing herself down from a vast height to escape a searing fire all around her." Comment.
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4. Is there anything comical about the way Khadija interrupts Aisha's revery, and if so, what?
1. Explain why the experience of falling in love involves fear. You might have to speculate because we haven't heard about her parents' attitude toward their children being in love yet.
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2. Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
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3. "She seemed to be a person throwing herself down from a vast height to escape a searing fire all around her." Comment.
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4. Is there anything comical about the way Khadija interrupts Aisha's revery, and if so, what?
17 comments:
Heather Rhee
1. Explain why the experience of falling in love involves fear. You might have to speculate because we haven't heard about her parents' attitude toward their children being in love yet.
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Aisha falls in love. At the same time she is scared about something. She has a feeling both full of happiness about her love and a fear. The two opposite feelings were both intense. Usually, when people starts to love someone, they don't get sacared about of their love. Eventhogh it is not on the book yet, I think Aisha is sacared about her parents, especially her dad. Her dad is a stern person and he might have a rigid rules for his children. Falling in love and spending time to communicate with a guy who the parents don't know might be a behaivor against the rule. Maybe, Aisha has a signed person from her dad to marry with her already. If this is true, Ahmad, her dad, will be mad if he figures out that his daughter loves someone and she tries to see the guy from the window all the time. I don't think that Amina, her mother, will be so mad at her because of her love. However, Amina will probably follow her husband. Therefore, her mother will not be able to help Aisha at all. Thus, I think her dad is the one who made her so afraid about her love.
Emily Lee
2. Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
I think the fear element would make aisha feel more in love. Because even though she fears a lot, everytime he comes to near her hourse, it would just make her more nervous and feel very in love. Whether feeling a love or feeling a fear, it would be the same to her.
Ka Yeon Nam
Question#2
Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
Aisha was in love and fear for the police. I think that she felt more in love. Even though she was afraid, she always watched him secretly as he walked by the street. Also, when it came to the time to dust the house, she opened the window and dusted happily. Perhaps her fear was part of her love and she loved him even with fear.
Laura answers the question: Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
I think that the fear element would make Aisha feel more in love. From the sentence on page 25 I can try and prove this. The sentence is: "She seemed to be a person throwing herself down from a vast height to escape a searing fire all around her."
The part about throwing herself down from a great height displays her feeling of being out of control. It's as if she's done something she most definitely cannot undo, and she is afraid of hitting the ground. However, if you ask any professional skydiver why they jump form planes, they will tell you, "For the adrenaline." There is such an amazing feeling in free falling that a teenage girl would relish! The fear is accompanied by a wonderful rush of adventure and happiness to feel the wind!
The second part of the sentence, "...to escape a searing fire all around her," wants to say perhaps two things.
1) Aisha is in an environment she secretly wants to escape from. She feels the house and her home life pressing in on her and smothering her, burning her. She feels that an escape of any sort would be worth "the jump."
2) She is so ablaze with passion for this man, this police officer, that she needs to escape it. She feels that the only way to stop the burning inside of her is to let it out, to let him see her, too, the way she sees him.
I think that the fear would make Aisha's love stronger! The danger in the fall would be made up for by the escape from the flames.
Yeena Sung
1. Explain why the experience of falling in love involves fear. You might have to speculate because we haven't heard about her parents' attitude toward their children being in love yet.
" She did not know whether it would be better for her to abandon her adventure or to continue obeying her heart. He r love and fear were both intense.
In the book, Aisha falls in love with a police officer, whom I think is not a type of person you would fall in love with, because it will be hard to approach to him. This shows that she was very in love with him. However, she had a fear inside her that she couldn’t resist. I agree with Heather that it is maybe because her father has arranged a marriage for her. Or, maybe because it was her first experience of having an emotion like that. She could’ve felt that it was wrong to be in love because it means that she is making her own choice, which she probably haven’t done her whole life.
I think the experience of love involves fear because it’s a start of something new and it’s always scary to start something new because you don’t know what will happen next. Also, falling in love involves making a choice so you need to take responsibility for it and that might make yourself scared as well. However, I think these are all good fears that one should experience in their life time.
savannah,
question #2,
Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
I think the fear element would make Aisha feel more in love.As Laura said secret love is more exiting. further more it leaves room for fantasies beyond her wildest dreams because she cant even imagin being able to, in real life, live with him so no reality is pulling her back. I also think that after a life of being obediant and staying cooped up in her house with only cracks to act as windows to the outside breaking a rule must be overwelmingly thrilling and exiting, enough to over come the fear.
question #1
1. Explain why the experience of falling in love involves fear. You might have to speculate because we haven't heard about her parents' attitude toward their childern being in love yet.
Aisha falls in love with a young police officer who passes by her house to get to the Gamaliya police station. She secretly looks at him when he passes by. In the book, it says "hiding evidence of a bloody crime which might mean that there's something that makes her to be scared of falling in love with the police officer. Because she was trying hide the evidence, the fear might be because of her father who is always strick and cold person and as described in the book, he as wealthy. Which means that there are some expectations to whom she can get married to. So her father can disagree with her falling in love with the young police officer. Falling in love with someone is not always happy. It may also be something that are scary.
Sang Eun
1. Explain why the experience of falling in love involves fear. You might have to speculate because we haven't heard about her parents' attitude toward their children being in love yet.
Falling in love involves fear because if especially it is Aisha's first time to fall in love, then she has no idea how it is. She doesn't know whether the love will truly make her happy or not, so she would have a lot of curiosity. It is normal for a person to be afraid of something that he/she has never experienced before. Also, Aisha's parents might be in opposition of her from falling in love. Her parents might think that it is too early and inappropriate for their child to fall in love. The parents could be conservative about the subject, "love". Thus, Aisha might be fearing about her getting in trouble by loving someone. Her mother won't be too sensitive but her father would definitely be conservative. Especially they are Islam family. Therefore, Aisha could have fear involved in falling in love.
Christy Martin
#2 . Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
I think that the fear of being in love would make Aisha feel more passionately in love. People always want what they can not have, and this is definitely something she absolutely can not have. Every time Aisha sees her policeman, she gets a bubbling sensation of delight in her heart. She loves him and the fear factor only proves that her love is strong and true.
Christy Martin
#2 . Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
I think that the fear of being in love would make Aisha feel more passionately in love. People always want what they can not have, and this is definitely something she absolutely can not have. Every time Aisha sees her policeman, she gets a bubbling sensation of delight in her heart. She loves him and the fear factor only proves that her love is strong and true.
Sorry i didn't mean to post twice...
Answer to #3:
"She seemed to be a person throwing herself down from a vast height to escape a searing fire all around her."
This sentence is an excellent example of a metaphor. Aisha is a trapped person in her environment. Between her strict father and her Islamic way of life, we can reasonably argue that this symbolizes a burning building. From here, we can imagine that Aisha is trapped in "searing fire" and is "throwing herself from a vast height" to escape it, into the arms of the man she loves. She just wants to free to make her own decisions.
2. Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
I think the element of fear would give Aisha a more passionate feeling of love. I think when a person knows they are not supposed to be doing something...or loving someone, it gives the situation a more exhilarating feeling and more of a want and need. Fear would also make Aisha feel more in love because she is trying to escape the fear of her father's opinions by maybe fleeing in a journey of love. Love may always give a person the question of fear but if it is true love, than they will soon overcome and feel their true intentions.
1. Explain why the experience of falling in love involves fear. You might have to speculate because we haven't heard about her parents' attitude toward their children being in love yet. Falling in love involves fear no matter what the context of the situation is because it’s a new and exciting feeling. Besides the gitty fear, there seems to also come a serious fear with her of what others may say. However, she passes this “serious fear” when her feelings of love overcome it. “…her thirst for even more romance conquered her oppressive fear…”
2. Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain. I definitely think that the element of fear being present would make Aisha feel more in love because she seems to be a bit of a “dare devil” with this and likes the excitement.
3. "She seemed to be a person throwing herself down from a vast height to escape a searing fire all around her." Comment. I think that the beginning of this quote “she seemed to be a person throwing herself down from a vast height” is talking about the fact that she opens both window panels and is allowing him full view or her. As the text says, “she might as well have proclaimed her love to him”.
4. Is there anything comical about the way Khadija interrupts Aisha's reverie, and if so, what? I think the way that Khadija is calling Aisha is comical because she is proposing that Aisha is a wealthy woman with a slave bending for her every need. “Diva Munira al-Mahdiya, you renowned prima donna, please do us the favor of eating. Your servant has set the table for you.”
Sung Kun Kim
Q.2 Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
- Aisha loves a young policeman who patrols around the town everyday. She loves him but feels fear at the same time. Because, she worries about many things. She loves him, but doesn't know if he likes her too. Also, she kind of feels that she is doing a wrong thing that is not allowed in her world. But, by the she acts when the patrol time comes, we can understand that she really likes him. She moves from window to window just to see him. So fear would be nothing to her compared to her love toward him. I think that her love would overcome her fear.
2. Do you think the fear element would make Aisha feel less in love, or more? Explain.
All love involves fear. Fear is what makes love strong. If fear does make Aisha's love strong then she will possibly love more and yet fear can also turn love into roadkill and resulting in the love fading.
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