A Thousand Splendid Suns
CH 11 - 20
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Why would marium blame Rasheed for their baby's untimely death?
CH 21 - 30
CH 31 - 40
CH 41 - 50
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Would marium and laila ever have an opportunity to escape now that the Taliban have taken control.
Will the communist over throwing the old government change the way they live life drastically?
Why does Rasheed have a hidden gun?
"Now you know what you've given me in this marriage.Bad food, and nothing else." Ch 15 pg 104
"You'll get used to" Rasheed said. "With time, Ill bet you'll even love it." Ch 11 Pg 72
Reflections
I don't think the bathhouse or anything in the water had caused her baby's death. I feel like she is just in grief trying to find a reason for this happening.
I don't a communist regime can keep principles of democracy as said in pg 102.
I find it kind of strange how he just assumes that she will eventually love where something so uncomfortable for her to walk in and move around in.
CH 1 - 10
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Mariam's mother seems to love her but, always reminds her of bad things and memories.
Mariam's mother seems to love her but, always reminds her of bad things and memories.
Mullah Faizullah truly wanted mariam to get a great education while her mother didn't.
"If the girl wants to learn, let her, my dear. Let the girl have an education." "Learn? Learn what, Mullah sahbib?" Nana said sharply "What is there to learn?" Pg 14 Ch 3
"Your favorite flower?" asked mariam. "well, one of" he said smiling. Pg 10 Ch 2
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What drives mullah faixullah to help mariam get an education?
What drives mullah faixullah to help mariam get an education?
Why would Jalil name his daughter a flower that he did not really like?
""As we were led to a truck, laila looked over her shoulder and spotted Wakil's boy at the rear of the bus. The boy saw her too and waved happily." CH 36 PG 263
CH 34 PG 250: "And in this fleeting, wordless exchange with marium, Laila knew that they were not enemies any longer.
"The doctor was out of her burqa now," CH 39 PG 291
How will rasheed's constant spending and buying of illegal things effect their life?
What does laila's dream at the end of the chapter mean?
Its strange to think the Taliban are so strict that even female doctors are forced to wear burqas even during surgery.
The boy really doesn't care what happens to them, this makes me think wakil ratted them out to the militia man.
This quote shows the point where marium and laila have become allies and will no longer hate each other for penty things.
"The soviet union collapsed with astonishing swiftness." CH23 Pg 159
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"Back in Kabul, if not for the occasional burst of gunfire, if not for the soviets soldiers smoking on the sidewalks and soviet jeeps always bumping thru streets, war might as well been a rumor."Ch 21 pg 146
Why would the rebels begin to rain rockets on to Kabul?
How does the soviet union collapsing allow the rebels to defeat the Afghanistan government?
Would mammy want to move to California even if her sons were alive and the war was over?
You would think Now that the rebels are wining Would think the country should go back to relative peace.
I noticed that laila has been acting more awkward tariq and his mother seems to want them to be with each other.
I don't see how seeing enemy jeeps, soldiers, and gunfire make the war a rumor.
This shows that tariq would have done anything to try an keep his mother alive and safe.
Tariq, Laila, and the kids are living in terrible conditions.
This quote shows us that in just 10 years both Tariq and Laila have been through a lot.
"The shack they share with the children is small. The children sleep in cots below them and so there is little privacy" CH 49 Pg 385
"I held a shard of glass to his throat and took his blanket from him. I gave it to my mother" CH 44 Pg 335
"Laila looked at their reflection, at faces that had aged beyond their years,at pouches and lines and sags that now marked their once scrubbed, youthful faces" CH 48 Pg 376
How will the war on terror effect their life?
How is marium going to be able to save laila and the kids by lieing to the Taliban and turing herself in?
Why is it that the titanic movie so popular in Afghanistan?
Final
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Final reflection
Will Kabul remain in a good condition its in now, considering the warlords acting recklessly?
How would the ending have changed if marium remained alive?
How will the warlords in Kabul effect laila's family and their orphanage?
"You'll get used to it" Rasheed said. "With time, Ill bet you'll even love it." Ch 11 Pg 72 In the end she would resent her husband.
I thought the book was well written and had a somewhat happy ending with laila pregnant. Laila and her family's future is still uncertain at the end, as she says that Taliban forces are still out there and warlords having their power returned by the Americans.
"The doctor was out of her burqa now," CH 39 PG 291 This summarizes the whole book on how women are treated.
"I held a shard of glass to his throat and took his blanket from him. I gave it to my mother". CH 44 PG 335 This shows how through this story all the characters have done all that they can to help the ones who they care for.
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