"Kay Estella Zeehandelaar"

—-Is about a muslim princess from a regent family and her woes about tradition binding women. She expresses sorrow about wanting so badly to be one of the women like in europe working and studying. But in her culture, its a sin to send girls to school. The men in her family are able to study, go abroad, her older brothers get to join the army and the youngest son is studying in netherlands, her cousins are studying at the best school in India, etc etc But her, when she was 12, was locked up in her house, with her only sources of joy and hope reading dutch books and writing letters to her dutch friends. She was also in an arranged marriage with some man she doesnt know.

(Maam might ask who the friend who set her free is, and remember the "friend" is a metaphor, its time. Time set her free at 16yo.)

And the year after, her parents "officially" gave her and her sisters freedom to go abroad The world saw it as a sin, because this was the first time it happened. She ends the story by saying that her true wish isnt just to see the world and all its entertainment, its to see the day women are free to stand on their own, to not be a subordinate to anyone, to go to school, and ULTIMATELY, to not be forced to get married End part, she says that this tradition and system makes life miserable for women, and that of course it does, because in the end these laws are made for them and only them, while the freedom and luxuries of life are exclusive to the men.