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This question is about "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
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Because she doesn't want the only people who care about her to suffer.
Explanation:
Mariam killed her husband Rasheed as a way to protect Laila, her only friend and the only person who really cares about her. She cares a lot about Laila too and when she is arrested she refuses to receive visits and witnesses at the trial because she knows she will be convicted and doesn't want anyone to suffer for it.
Mariam will be tried by the Taliban for a crime she confessed to having committed. As the Taliban asserts women's rights, she knows that her sentence will condemn her to death and as a last act of courage. She decides that she will face death alone.
Mariam refuses to see visitors while she is imprisoned, and she calls no witnesses at her trial because she does not want anyone to suffer because of her.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The following question is taken from the novel with the title A Thousand Splendid Suns by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.
Women in the rule of Taliban suffered many humiliation and torture. Mariam knew these things, and she thought that anyone who will be linked with her, will suffer the same fate, as she was suffering.
She wanted to save Laila from Taliban, as she protected Laila from her husband, the same way she wanted to save her from Taliban.
Therefore, when she is arrested she refuses to receive visits and witnesses at the trial because she knows under Taliban rule she will be convicted.
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