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Read the passage and determine a signpost on your own.
Ch. 14 pp. 110-111

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To help you make the most of signposts:
1. Why is this happening, i.e. what is the purpose of this scene or dialog?
2. What does this tell you about the character(s) or how does it move the plot forward?
3. How does this signpost point toward a possible theme?

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"We were astonished.  It was like a dream.  It was difficult for us to believe that others...in the world knew about us and our suffering...just a year before (we) had been working at our looms...and all those people wanted to listen to Iqbal."

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"Out in the street some people shook their fists at us...I thought about Hussain Khan, but I also realized they had to be something even bigger and much worse."

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"...no looms, no master, no work. I sat down on the top stair and bust into tears. I hadn't cried in so long. I hadn't cried when I felt lonely and lost, a prisoner in Hussain's workshop. I hadn't cried when my hands bled after a long day's work. But not I couldn't stop sobbing...But I wasn't crying from fear. It was something else."

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"'That's not true. I can read.' With our mouths hanging open in surprise, we all turned around to look at Marie."

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"Hussain put out his hand to grab Maria.  From the corner of my eye, I saw Salman push his way to the front of the group. 'If you send her,' he said, trying to keep his voice firm, 'then send me, too.'"

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"At night we stopped meeting. Nobody wanted to. What good was it? Before Iqbal's arrival I had been resigned to my life. I couldn't even imagine a different one. Iqbal had sown the seeds of hope in all of us. Now the disappointment was too strong. He wouldn't be able to lead us anymore, and none of us had enough courage to rebel against Hussain."

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"'Thanks, friends,' croaked Iqbal.  His voice was like a thin wire.
We went back every night."

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"'You can be sure about it, cried Karim. "you should see how worried Hussain Khan is that Iqbal won't finish in tie or that he won't do it well or that he'll make some mistake, and the rug will have to be thrown away. Oh, he'll cancel the debt all right."

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"Iqbal continued, 'My father said that he could send one of my sisters, but I said, 'No, send me.' He hugged me and asked if I was afraid. 'No, I said, but I was lying."

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"What's really bad, my grandmother would say, is to receive no dreams.  It's like not receiving the warmth of someone who is thinking of us even if they are far away.
I hadn't dreamed for months." - Fatima