" Suha is definatly a total contrast to her new culture, this leads her to believe that she has no conection to it. She says, "I'm an Arab. I'm supposed to feel that I have some connection here, but I feel none at all. I'm completely detached from it." As a result Suha chooses to isolate herself from others by simply staying home as much as possible. In general Suha is living a very sheltered and boring life by disconnecting herself from society. This boredom however changes when she meets Nur. Suha is much like Nur in that they share the same stuggles and frustrations of being an arab women. Shortly after they experiment sexually. Suha sees this sexual encounter as merely a cure for boredom, and it allows her to temporarily escape from her frustrations. She her sexual Suha explains her sexual relationship with Nur as follows; "I was like a fisherman who casts his line into the water where he knows there are no fish, or even weeds, but feels a sense of calm and a release from the boredom of his routine every time he does it, and prefers it at least to doing nothing, although every day when he comes back to fish again he feels a little restless and disgruntled." However restless and disgruntled Suha felt about her intimate relationship with Nur, she could not break the relationship off and Nur became an addiction. After a while of battling with this addiction, she comes to realize that her sexual relationship is not changing her situation but rather just an escape from reality. Suha wants to deal with the actual problem, and not escape reality. She expresses these feeling when she says, " It was as if I had smeard my body in anaesthetizing fluid to deaden my senses, although i hardly needed anaesthetizing: for months I had been getting gradually more impervious to external. stimuli." I really admired Suha for having the courage to break off the relationship with Nur.