Celestial Bodies Quotes

Jokha Alharthi
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Celestial Bodies.

Celestial Bodies Quotes

Jokha Alharthi
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Celestial Bodies.
This section contains 891 words
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She couldn't stop imagining her sewing threading winding itself around her neck like a hangman’s noose.
-- Narration (1 - "Mayya")

Importance: This line of narration helps to articulate Mayya's sense of dread at being forced into a marriage. She has no say in the natter, and she is being forced to marry a man whom she has never met. These circumstances help to illustrate the misogynistic elements of this society, which routinely limit female autonomy.

And when I asked Mayya, Do you love me? she laughed. She laughed!
-- Abdallah (2 - "Abdallah" (I))

Importance: In this line of narration, Abdallah recalls how Mayya has consistently refused to say that she loves him. Mayya does not love Abdallah, and she was forced into the marriage. As a result, the marriage is neither loving nor fulfilling for either spouse. The novel thusly shows how patriarchal social structures can harm both sexes.

...the government freed all of the slaves.
-- Abdallah (2 - "Abdallah" (I))

Importance: The novel's plot prominently...

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