Nana

Question 1

chapter 1

“lazy eye”

Nana

Answer 1

• Nana’s lazy eye could represent the suffering she has been through in her life, which has been passed town to Mariam (the cyclical structure of suffering)

Question 2

chapter 1

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”

Answer 2

• Preparing Mariam for the injustice she will face later in her life
• repitition of “always” shows how there is no escape from how hard life for an Afghani woman is
• Forshadows Mariam’s death when she is executed for Rasheed’s death

Question 3

chapter 3

“Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have. Do you understand?”

Nana, Mariam

Answer 3

• Nana has nothing left in her life other than to carry on living and “endure”
• Rhetorical question - Mariam doesn’t have to understand now, as she is inevitably going to when she gets older

Question 4

LACNTPN, AMAFAFAW. A.

Answer 4

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”

Question 5

WLU. WE. IAWH. DYU?

Answer 5

“Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have. Do you understand?”