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What did Nana wished had happened to her?

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“I wish my father had had the stomach to sharpen one of his knives and do the honourable things,”

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How does Nana describe patriarchal values?

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

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How did Nana feel towards her previous engagement?

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“[she] had been genuinely happy,”

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How is time differences established?

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“two full days […] under an hour,”

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How did Mariam learn domestic survey?

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“Nana taught her to sew too and to cook rice,”

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How did Nana appear to Jalil?

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“She brushed her teeth, wore her best hijab for him,”

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How is Giti’s death presented?

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“Giti’s mother had run up and down the street where Giti was killed, collecting pieces of her daughter’s flesh,”

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How is the titles referenced in the novel?

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“or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls,”

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Why do the taliban accept male dominance?

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“to maintain order,” as, “what a man does in his home is his business,”

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What “fever gripped Kabul,”?

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Titanic

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How is Kabul rebuilt at the end of the novel?

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“Everyday now she sees people planting saplings, painting old houses, carrying bricks for new ones,”

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How does Jalil represent culture?

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“Persian culture,” and, “Herat’s newspapers,”

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How does Jalil openly reject Mariam?

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“The face was only there for an instant,”

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How does Jalil attempt to apologise to Mariam?

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“I lost the privilege of your good graces […] I only have myself to blame,” and, “your undeserving father,”

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How does Jalil show sympathy in his letter?

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“I still dream of my dead children,”

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What did Rasheed do when he greeted Mariam?

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“He dropped a chair beside her,”

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How are Rasheed’s eyes described?

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“Bloodshot,”

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How is Rasheed’s house described?

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“the walls were bare,” and, “she was in a stranger’s house with all its different rooms and its smell of cigarette smoke with its unfamiliar cupboards full of unfamiliar utensils,”

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What does Rasheed expect from Mariam?

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“I expect you start behaving like a wife,”

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How does Rasheed justify the rape?

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“There is no shame in this Mariam,”

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How can Rasheed’s desires be criticised?

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“Rasheed insists that she cover when he though nothing of looking at the private areas of other men’s wives and sisters,”

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What does Rasheed own?

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“A gun,”

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How is Rasheed’s emotions revealed?

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“I’ve already buried one son. I won’t bury another,”

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How does Rasheed view his marriage to Mariam?

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“What you’ve given me in this marriage. Bad food and nothing else,”

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How does Rasheed threaten Laila about Tariq?
"I know you were very close...friends...the two of you,"
26
How does Mariam reveal Rasheed's façade?
"It was a staged delivery. Like a performance,"
27
What could happen to Laila?
"Haven't you noticed all the widows sleeping on the street? They would kill for this chance." and "Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp [...] she saw her baby. Tariq's baby,"
28
What happens when Rasheed gives Laila Mariam's ring?
"She never wore it anyway,"
29
What does Rasheed call expectations?
"Nangs and namoos,"
30
How is Laila's experiences with the burqa described?
"When we are out together, that you wear a burqa. For your own protection, naturally. It is best, so many lewd men in this town now. Such vile intentions,"
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What are Rasheed's attitudes towards Laila?
"this crying, I can't stand it," and, "I would be within my rights to give Aziza away,"
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What are Rasheed's attitudes towards the taliban?
"Wasn't bothered much by the Taliban,"
33
Who, "worshipped his father,"?
Zalmai
34
How is the extent of Rasheed's cruelty revealed?
"When you'd shoved the barrel of your gun into your wife's mouth,"
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How are his attitudes towards Laila towards the end of the novel?
"now I'm saddled with a hag,"
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How is chapter 45 foreshadowed?
"I swear you're going to make me kill you Laila,"
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How is Rasheed seen as menacing?
"teamwork,"
38
How does Laila show sympathy to her father?
"Laila's heart went out to him,"
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How is Babi's attitudes revealed?
"Marriage can wait, education cannot,"
40
How does Laila view her brothers?
"Discussing a beloved film that only she hadn't seen," and, "Everywhere Laila looked, two strangers smiled back,"
41
How does Laila initially view her mother?
"Laila wondered why mammy had even bothered having her,"
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How does Tariq protect Laila?
"His unstrapped leg raised high over is shoulders like a sword,"
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How does Babi reveal progression?
"Almost two-thirds of the students at Kabul university were women now,"
44
How does Mammy respond to grief?
"Mammy was screaming, screaming and tearing at her hair," and, "chest pains and headaches, joint aches and night sweats, paralyzing pain,"
45
How are the Bamiyan buddhas described?
"the peace of it," and, "your country's heritage,"
46
How is Laila's future seen?
"You're going to be somebody, I know one day I'll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page,"
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What is Tariq's duty?
"He was her lifeline to the streets now,"
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What did Babi do?
"The unthinkable thing; he had Laila drop out of school. He took teaching duties himself,"
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What is happening by the end of part2?
"Everyone was leaving. And now Tariq too,"
50
How is Laila's guilt during the rocket attack shown?
"I should have been the one in the house when it happened," and, "Was this her penalty, then, her punishment for being aloof to her won mother's suffering,"
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How are Laila's doubts revealed?
"How could she run now?"H
52
How does Laila view the burqa?
"limited, grid like visibility of the burqa," but, "She found some comfort in the anonymity that the burqa provided,"
53
How did Laila and Mariam become friends?
"Laila knew that they were not enemies any longer," and "She and Laila had become one and the same being to him, equally wretched, equally deserving of his distrust, his distain and disregard [...] they were united,"
54
How is Laila's resilience shown?
"They can't make half the population stay home and do nothing,"
55
How are Laila's guilts revealed as a mother?
"What kind of mother abandons her own child,"
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How does Laila feel about her abusive relationship?
"Laila never would have believed that a human body could withstand this much beating,"
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How does Laila view her return to Tariq?
"Looked at Tariq, until her chest screamed for air," and, "I wish I'd never left you,"
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How does Laila view her life in Muree?
"A great lump of gratitude catches her throat," and "Laila is happy in Muree. But it is not an easy happiness. It is not a happiness without cost,"
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How does Laila's story end?
"Open your farsi books children,"
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How does the novel end?
"Because if it's a girl, Laila had already named her,"
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How does the novel begin?
"Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami,"
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What simile is used?
"Harami like an insect,"
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How is Mariam seen as an illegitimate person,"
"An illegitimate person who would never have a legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance,"
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What did Mullah Faizullah do?
"Teach Mariam the five daily Namaz prayers and tutor her in Korean recitation," and, "No one in the world who understood her, better than her old tutor,2
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What did Mariam have to do?
"It's out lot in life Mariam. Women like us. We endure. It's all we have. Do you understand? Besides, they'll laugh at you in school. They will, they'll call you harami,"
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How are stones used to create a family?
"She picked up ten pebbles and arranged them vertically in three columns,"
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What is the significance of 15?
"That's a good solid marrying age for a girl,"
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How does Mariam accept her marriage?
"This is the face of my husband,"
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How does Mariam feel isolated whilst living with Rasheed?
"Pangs of longing bore into her," and, "Making her feel uprooted, displaced like an intruder on someone else's life,"
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How are the women of Kabul characterised?
"The flock of women," and, "Wifely game,"
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How does Rasheed show kindness?
"A flare of pride caught her off guard,"
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How does Rasheed threaten Mariam?
"A woman's face is her husband's business only. Do you understand?"
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How does Mariam view the burqa?
"the loss of peripheral vision was unnerving," but, "She no longer worried that people knew, with a single glance, all the shameful secrets of her past,"
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How is market of Kabul seen?
"The street was lines with shops and little stalls,"
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What did Mariam do on Eid?
"She was in his room for the first time, sitting on his bed, feeling like a trespasser,"
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How are Mariam's emotions seen?
"Her heart swelled insider of her. It swelled and swelled until all the loss, all the grief, all the loneliness and self-abasement of her life washed away,"
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How is Mariam's miscarriage presented?
"Rasheed's wife was shriveled into a corner," and, "Each loss, each collapse, each trip to the doctor, more crushing for Mariam than the last,"
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What had Mariam become to Rasheed?
"A burden to him,"
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How is Rasheed's violence shown towards Mariam?
"Mariam to spit out pebbles, blood and the fragments of two broken molars,"
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What does Mariam become?
"Mariam will be accountable,"
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How does Mariam initially view Laila?
"I have no use for your company, I don't want it. What I want it to be alone. You will leave me be, and I will return the favour," and "I wouldn't have fed you and washed you and nursed you if I'd known you were going to turn around and steal my husband,"
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How does Mariam create a bond with Aziza?
"Mariam gently freed her finger from the baby's grip and got up,"
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How does Mariam accept Laila?
"For the first time, it was not adversary's face Laila saw but a face of grievances, unspoked burdens gone unprotested," and, "Mariam saw how the sacrifices a mother made,"
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How is Zalmai's birth presented?
"Mariam would always admire Laila for how much time passed before she screamed,"
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How are Mullah Faizullah's teaching prevalent?
"Maraim had stated teaching Aziza verses from the koran,"
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How does Mariam gain resisilance?
"Had she been a deceitful wife?"
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What happens to Rasheed?
"Mariam grabbed the shovel,"
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How does Mariam view the murder?
"As she did, it occurred to her that this was the first time that she was deciding the course of her own life,"
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What does Mariam advise Laila to do?
"Think like a mother. I am,"
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How is the prison presented?
"They were unfurnished rooms, with dirty, peeling walls and small windows that looked into the courtyard,£
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How is injustice revealed?
"There was no legal council, no public hearing, no cross-examining of evidence, no appeal,"
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How is Mariam's demise seen?
"This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings,"
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How is magical realism used?
"A young Mariam is sitting at the table making a doll by the glow of an oil lamp,"
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How is Mariam's rape presented?
"Leaving her to wait out the pain below, to look at the frozen stars in the sky and a cloud that draped the face of the moon like a wedding veil,"
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How does Mariam hold guilt over Nana?
"Wasn't it true that she might as well have slipped that noose around her mother's neck herself? Treacherous daughters did not deserve to be mothers,"
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How does Mariam sacrifice herself?
"I've killed our husband. I've deprived your son of his father. It isn't right that I run. I can't Even if they never catch us, I'll never...I'll never escape your son's grief,"

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