In the story, there are approximately 5 main characters. First of all, we have Jalil, father of Mariam Jo. Personally I dislike this characters choices. When confronted by his three wives about the birth of his harami child Mariam he feels forced to is

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        In the story, there are approximately 5 main characters. First of all, we have Jalil, father of Mariam Jo. Personally I dislike this character’s choices. When confronted by his three wives about the birth of his harami child Mariam he feels forced to isolate them away from society so that he does not displease his three wives and so that he is not thought of a terrible man in the city as he is a popular figure. His choice to outcast them was a terrible choice. Although society at the time would have strongly disliked his choice to have had her in her home, she is nonetheless his family and if he truly cared about his ‘daughter’ he would have cared for her in his household and would have sacrificed his reputation to have her in his life. Furthermore, when his daughter comes knocking on his door wanting to see him on her birthday, he leaves her laying on the street in the cold all night without seeing her for one instant afraid of being seen with her. He then goes to forcing her into marriage, instead of giving her a place in his home, to rid of her as wanted by his three other wives not caring about the fact that she was marrying a brute, ugly, forceful, ignorant, violent, and disrespectful man.
        

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I personally like Mariam as a character, because at the beginning of the book, she has faith that her father does truly care about her, and faith in her father is better then carelessness about him. I like her choice to turn her back to him and not look at him when leaving for Kabul with her new husband. I like the fact that she chose not to speak to him when he came to visit her in Kabul. A father is not the figure who makes you, but the one that cares for you all the time, the one ...

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