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"The drought has ended.. Its spring floods have washed away Titanic city" (Pg.408) The scenery is no longer dark its no longer full of war behind it, its finally at peace

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"I meant it.. I meant it for you, Laila jo" (pg.357) Mariam is a loving sacrificing strong women as she sacrifices her life for her loved ones.

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"They're fractures... asked her to sit up." (pg 322)The struggle and betrayal is repeated in a way laila is like Jalil they both made children outta marriage having to visit their children in isolated area this is why Mariam may love Laila so much reminding her of her father in a good way.

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"One day, during a visit with Aziza, Laila saw a middle-aged woman, her burqa pushed back...the sunken mouth and gray hair". (pg.322) The strength shown in all women in Kabul surviving the war with their kids

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"daylight steadily bleached darkness from the sky" (pg.257) The weather was dark representing Lailas fears that day that Rasheed would find out about her baby that belonged to Tariq".

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"..it was a long time before Mariam gently freed her finger from the baby grip and got up". (pg.244) The baby symbolized love, a lost child Mariam could never have, until Laila had Aziza, Mariam looked at her as a daughter having her own family.

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'But i suspect she won't get far. No food, no water, not a rupiah in her pockets bullets and rockets flying everywhere". (pg.215) Rasheed is a manipulating men taking young girl's who have no where to but stay with him under his roof where he has power over them to abuse them as dogs.

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"the sunlight catching each. Tiny, beautiful rainbows". (pg.194) As Laila is thrown from the blast she sees a beautiful scenery.. hope, she sees hope even in the verge of losing everything

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"The bleak isolation awaiting her, the murderous loneliness, it didn't have to be". (pg 183) Isolation is a pattern throughout the book first Mariam in the kolba with her mother, Laila not being able to leave with Tarig isolated by her mother as well in Kabul. Then both are isolated under Rasheed

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"Tariq smiled at the women's good humor shooing". "He seemed to take pleasure in not being welcomed... masculine irreverence" (pg.166) Tariq is a humorous boy with a big heart. His the light of Mariam and is her protector even in his disability.

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"It told the story of an old fisherman named Santiago...;the sharks had torn it into pieces". (pg.152) This story Symbolizes Laila once her and her family where packing up ready to go to pakistan along with tariq (her prize) but once they where packed and ready to go everything had torn into pieces just as Laila's house and family.

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"Through Laila's window, the landscape shifted from snowcapped peaks to deserts to canyons.. outcropping of rocks". (pg. 146) The scenery is so beautiful but underneath is destruction of war tearing about such a beautiful place full of innocent people such as Mariam and Laila.

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"She was envious of these birds". "Maybe they had landed on the walls of Jalil's home, on the front steps of his cinema". (pg.28) The birds symbolized Mariam's lost dreams, her dream of being able to leave the kolba with Jalil and go watch a movie in his Cinema be welcomed in his home.

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"..Mammy, Mammy...But Mammy never opened the door" "Sometimes Mammy had good days". (pg.119) "Nana alway's gave a slow, burdened smile". (pg.11) Unloving and burdened from their mentally ill mothers.

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"In the clearing,.....built the small kolba where Mariam would live". (pg.10) The kolba represented Mariam's safe heaven it kept her safe from the truth it protected her from her father's true shame of her, and his wife's.

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"Of all the daughters i could have had, why God give me an ungrateful one like you.!" "I'm the only one who loves you." "I'll die if you go". (pg.27) The character of Nana is depressed she uses anger towards Mariam showing narcissistic vulnerability, a sensitivity of rejection from Jalil.