FEMINISM

At the age of 5 years old, Sultana realized that her childhood really hoped her father’s love. She really hated her older brother who was rude and did not appreciate women as well as her older sisters. She lived in glamorous, but she was not well treated because of her position as a woman which had a position under men. Especially by her father and her older brother. Since she was a child, she had tried to get her father’s love. Otherwise, in her father’s eyes, Sultana was a picture of the last desperation.
At the age of 14, Sultana had a power that it was her mother. A mother is the power of a daughter, the only one supporter and motivator for a daughter(109). As well as at her 14 year-old age, her mother was gone. Her mother was sick and passed away. During her life, Sultana’s mother had fought to protect her daughters and posses the love of Allah for her children, from the obstinacy of a husband who did not care about the women’s feeling.
4 months from her mother’s death, a woman that Sultana loved very much and was the power of her life, were passed in depression, silence, and spiritless. But her father had raised her power back to fight against Arabian men who had an absolute power over women. Sultana could not accept her father decision to marry too soon after her mother’s death. He married for the 5th time to a 15 year-old woman who was just 1 year older than Sultana. Sultana started to realize when Randa, who was the name of the woman, felt frightened of Sultana’s father. Sultana felt that she had to release all women from the dominance of men. The dream of freedom in her soul started to grow, and she had a willingness to get close with all Arabian women who were badly treated by the men included for Randa, the youngest wife of her father (117). Sultana was motivated to establish an Association of Women named “Lively Lips” , which intended to rage the habit of passiveness for the women’s role in family (121), together with her friends and Randa. But the main purpose of the Association was to stop the marriage custom between young women and old men (122).
Knowing that Sultana had established a women association aiming to fight the superiority of men, Sultana’s father arranged a her marriage to a man whom Sultana had never met before. Arabian women mostly could not voice their rights. In a marriage arrangement, arabian women had to follow the ways and regulations from their fathers (157). But not with Sultana, she tried to see her prospective husband before she married the man. Sultana would not accept a man who would be her husband easily.
At first, Sultana’s marriage ran well, but Noorah, Sultana’s mother-in-law, deemed Sulatana as her rival who would separate her from her son. Because Noorah loved her son very much, Sultana was not well accepted in her husband’s family. Noorah seemed to make problems for Sultana. Once a while, along with her husband’s arrival from his office in a bad mood he put his anger to Sultana, because no Arabian men would be angry to their mothers. Kareem slapped Sultana for 3 times. The slaps were meant to give a humiliation, because he did that more than 3 times. Therefore the slaps made her jaws reddish. Feeling humiliated, Sultana turned to be brave and attacked Kareem (216-217).
Kareem meant to divorce Sultana, but after knowing that Sultana was pregnant Kareem postponed his plan. They lived happily until they had 3 children. Then, Kareem wanted to get married, but Sultana refused it firmly. Sultana and her children ran away from Kareem. Sultana would not accept Kareem if he married another woman. After 5 months living in exile (321), Sultana agreed to talk to Kareem by phone. Sultana decided to return back to her husband with an agreement, that was Kareem would not marry another woman as long as he and Sultana in marrige tie, and if he broke the agreement, Sultana would be divorced and she had the rights of their children and half of Kareem’s wealth. He agreed and they began to build their family and provide happiness for their children.