The Persian Carpet

This story is about a little girl whose mother just divorced her father to marry a man that she had loved since before she was arranged to marry the little girl's father. The little girl, her sister, and a relative of her father's named Maryam sneak out of the father's house to go and visit the mother at her new home. Before the little girl actually sees her mother again she imagines how the meeting will go and she thinks that she is going to act shy and have to pretend her happy emotions. But when the girl actually sees her mother again she is surprised that she is overcome with joy and hugs her mother tightly. That is until she sees a persian rug of her mothers on the floor in one of the rooms of her new home. The little girl remembers all of the times her mother would bring out the rugs in the fall. She suddenly becomes infuriated at her mother when she sees the rug because the mother lied and said that the rug had been stolen and the mother blamed it on the grounds keeper or servant. The little girl was upset that the mother had blamed it on the servant because it made him sad. I think that the mother lied about the rug being stolen because she wanted to take the rug to her boyfriends house. I think the story shows how when a person lies in order to meet their own wants they are being selfish and inconsiderate.