Chapter 2 TSS Story Board
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- This series of dialogue is Nana talking to Mariam about when Nana got pregnant and Jalil found out, his wives disapproved and he did to. But because she was carrying his illegitimate child, he still had to take care of her so he built her the Kolba.
- What's a mugwort?
- A weed... Something you rip out and toss aside. unlike weeds, I had to be replanted, you see, given food and water. on the count of you. that was the deal Jalil made with his family.
- To Jalil and his wives, I was a pokeroot. a mugwort. you too. and you weren't even born yet.
- This slide shows the importance of Nana's seizure disorder in chapter 2 with how she interacted with other people. Her seizure disorder is why her engagement was broken off and was one of the reasons Jalil didn't marry her when she was carrying Mariam. And because Nana was carrying Mariam without being married to Jalil, her father abandoned her to.
- ...Then a week before the wedding date, a jinn had entered Nana's body. This required no description to Mariam. She had witnessed it enough times with her own eyes: Nana collapseing suddenly, her body going rigid, her eyes rolling back, her arms and legs shacking as if something were throttling her from the inside, the froth at the corners of her mouth, white, sometimes pink with blood. then the drowsiness, the frightning disorientation, the incoherent mumbling.
- In Nana's account of the day that she gave birth to Mariam, no one came to help... When the pain got bad, I'd bite on a pillow and scream into it until I was hoarse. And still no one came to wipe my face or give me a drink of water...I cut the cord between us myself. That's why I had a knife.
- This demonstrates what Nana said her birth was like. It was an extreme way of saying it, that after she heard Jalil's side of the story she believed him over Nana.
- This demonstrates what Jalil said her birth was like. That it was a peaceful birth and that he was beside Nana's side when she gave birth. This was such a nice story that she believed it over what might have very well been the truth her mother was telling her.
- Jalil's version, that though he'd been away he'd arranged for Nana to be taken to the hospital in Herat where she had been tended to by a doctor. She had lain i=on a clean proper bed in a well-lit room. Jalil shook his head with sadness when Mariam told him about the knife.
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