Everybody lies, even family. Hanan al-Shaykh shows an example of this in her story "The Persian Carpet." In the story, the mother of a girl divorces her husband. Before she moves out she steals one of the family's most valuable possessions, a carpet, but she blames an old blind person for stealing it. About a month later when the daughter visits her mother, she notices the carpet in her living room. The daughter is astonished and heart broken. "I looked down at

the Persian carpet trembling with burning rage" (al-Shaykh, 2). The daughter could not believe her mother lied to her. The mother's act changed her relationship with her daughter forever. Before the daughter found out she had been lied to she wanted to see her mother more than anything. However, afterwards she says, "I wished the moment of meeting my mother could be undone" (al-Shaykh, 2). She wished she had never seen her mother again. Because of the trust in her mother, she must now suffer.

Another instance where a family member broke the trust with their child is in the true story of two boys, Cornelius and Lattie Abraham. Many children trust their parents to take care of them, however, this story shows that the children should not trust them. If the parents were not trusted these two boys would both be alive and well. When Lattie was four and Cornelius six their parents started to get

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