Insight paragraph

In the passage I chose to analyze, I included a link attached to Mariam's name, explaining what the meaning of it is. From the variety of websites I found, the most accepted meaning was "bitter." At an early age, Mariam did not seem bitter at all, but that changed when her mother died. When she found out the truth behind her father Jalil's opinion of her, and when she was forced to marry a man she had never met, that bitterness hiding inside her from the point of her birth, had finally been released. That bitterness grew as the hardships on the Afghan people grew, and those hardships were the result of constant change in Kabul, change that the people had no power over, change that was decided only by war an bloodshed, instead of peace and talk. Mariam became bitter at her lack of power over her life. Her life was decided for her by others, based on the sole guideline of being a harami, and an orphan. A life with guidelines like those is no life at all, and Mariam knew this herself, which is why she became so bitter. When Laila entered her life, Mariam was still bitter from the hardships she had faced. The name Laila means "beauty" (http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Laila). It is as if Mariam's life finally had some beauty in it, and that beauty washed away all of her bitterness.