Chapter 16-A Thousand Splendid Suns
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- Chapter 16-A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Begins in 1987 in Kabul with nine-year old Laila waking up.
- She is missing her best friend Tariq.
- Introduction of Laila's parents Fariba and Hakim.
- Contrasting gender roles. Fariba is dominant and Hakim is mousy and weak.
- Fariba is angry at Hakim for letting Ahmad and Noor go to war.
- Even though Laila's family prefer a modern way of life, they are not poor. This is suggested to the reader when Hakim leaves on the bike.
- Hakim's loss of job as a university teacher.
- Hosseini creates parallels between Laila and Mariam.
- In Mariam's marriage Rasheed is domiant but in the marriage between Hakim and Fariba-she is dominant.
- Contrasts between Laila and Mariam.
- Laila has an education.
- Khala Rangmaal forces ideas of the Soviet Union onto her students.
- Her father treasures and cares for Laila even though she is a female.
- Laila has an education.
- We see a Herat car outside Mariam's house.
- This is Jalil visiting Mariam. Laila notices it both when she leaves for school and when she returns, illustrating that Jalil waited all day.
- Begins in 1987 in Kabul with nine-year old Laila waking up.
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