THE SISTERHOOD TO THE WOMEN’S SURVIVAL IN ATIQ RAHIMI’S THE PATIENCE STONE

Abstract

Chesler writes in The Death of Feminism that the sisterhood in the Muslim world does not always exist. Yet, Atiq Rahimi in The Patience Stone describes the solidarity naturally performed between the main woman character and her aunt. Indeed, the description argues Chesler’s own opinion that love, family feelings between and among women do not exist. There are four sisterhoods proposed to reveal in the novel, they are (1) the bad experiences of patriarchy shared between the main women character and her aunt, (2) the form of sisterhood performed by her aunt toward the main woman character and each other, (3) the significance of the sisterhood toward the main woman character’s life and her aunty’s life, and (4) a magical tale bring misfortune for the main women character’s actual live to underline the necessary of sisterhood. The article analyzes the character’s utterances and author’s narration in a qualitative research. The finding shows (1) the main woman character suffers from the bad treatment of her father and husband while her aunt suffers from the bad treatment of her husband and his family, (2) advise, attention, and love are the forms of sisterhood naturally performed between the main woman character and her aunt, (3) the main women character and her aunt are avoided by the next violence, and (4) the main woman character does not keep silence as warned by her grand mother through narrating the magical tale brings her to have tragic end life. As the conclusion, the sisterhood naturally performed between the main woman character and her aunt is significant to her aunt’s survival.