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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Book

Princess is a novel which mainly about the lives of women at part of the Earth. The book describes how women in Saudi Arab being tortured and not to mention humiliated by men. There, the social level of man is far higher than that of woman. Father or the eldest son of a family will be the head of the family. They have the right to do any decision for the women including the right to choose their future husband. May daughters like their future husbands or not, they have to follow and no word against the order is allowed. Eventually, some of the women who are in their early teenage have to marry a middle age man and what make thing worse is they might become their third or forth wife (polygamy is allowed, in some religion, for those who are able to support the whole family and also are able to spent his time equally for all the wives). Women are being blame for men misbehavior and their explanation is not accepted. Some mother even have to follow their sons instruction.

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