HONOR: James Bowman analyzes the events concerning Mukhtaran Bibi, (the 28-year-old divorced Pakistani woman condemned by a tribal council to be gang-raped as a punishment for a relationship her younger brother may or may not have had with a woman from a tribe of higher status) and The Road to Perdition with an emphasis on honor, in a similar fashion to the way Tom Wolfe has long used status as an organizing force in his writing.
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