Shame Lesson Plan

Analyze the opening story of Chapter 7, in which the narrator tells of a Pakistani man who murdered his own daughter. What does this tell us about the sympathies of the narrator and how the novel wants to present to issue of shame?

The narrator offers a compelling explanation not only for the man's murder of his daughter but also for most Western readers' confusion about the event. He essentially says that Western societies have become shameless and Eastern societies continue to operate with a strict and deep sense of shame, and that only those who have been raised to be ashamed about their actions will be able to understand how this man could have done this while...