https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour en-us 2015-12-23 22:05:02 UTC 2026-02-22 20:11:22 UTC hello@padlet.com gjacobson https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/354819584 Find a quote (Ch 10-14 only) and post it here on padlet.  Be sure to cite it correctly.  It should be a quote that creates meaning for the reader and moves the story forward. No two quotes can be the same.]]> 2019-04-28 21:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/354819584 805ihf06 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482137 "Baba's was called "Oat Cell Carcinoma." Advanced. Inoperable.(156).]]> 2019-04-30 15:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482137 133kck23 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482216 "I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I opened my mouth and almost told her how I'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali. But I didn't. I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them," (165).]]> 2019-04-30 15:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482216 180llc26 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482238 "He had always known. Come. There is a way to be good again, Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up. Said it in passing, almost as an afterthought. A way to be good again." (192).]]> 2019-04-30 15:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482238 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482497 "In the end, a bear had come that he couldn't best" (174).]]> 2019-04-30 15:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482497 805ihf06 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482696 "We all agreed that Soraya and I would forgo the Shirini-Khori. Everyone knew the reason, so no one had to actually say it: that Baba didn't have months to live." (169)]]> 2019-04-30 15:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355482696 405els25 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355483341 "Ill come back with your morphine and a glass of water, Kaka jan," Soraya said. 
"Not tonight," he said. "There is no pain tonight." 
"Okay" she said. She pulled up his blanket. We closed the door. 
Baba never woke up. ]]> 2019-04-30 15:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355483341 213ith29 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355483648 "My eyes returned to our suitcases. They made me sad for Baba. After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life: one disappointing son and two suitcases." (124)]]> 2019-04-30 15:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355483648 750msn19 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355485897 "But I would stand my ground, I decided. I didn't want to sacrifice for Baba anymore. The last time I had done that, I had damned myself "(Hosseini 135).]]> 2019-04-30 15:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355485897 960sym27 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355489202 "But I think a big part of the reason I didn't care about Soraya's past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret" (180).]]> 2019-04-30 15:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355489202 175mjc30 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355522491 "Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been 'Baba's son.' Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own." (174)]]> 2019-04-30 16:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355522491 975mfa31 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355656131 " I gave the notebook back to Soraya and left the room. Baba hated it when I cried" (172).]]> 2019-04-30 23:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355656131 897sab28 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355664479 "Then Baba rolled his head towards me, 'I wish Hasaan had been with us today,' he said. A pair of steel hands closed around my windpipe at the sound of Hasaan's name. I rolled down the window. Waited for the steel hands to loosen their grip." (133-134)]]> 2019-05-01 00:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355664479 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355677305 "Their sons go out to nigh clubs looking for meat and get their girlfriends pregnant, they have kids out of wedlock and no one says a goddamn thing. Oh, they're just men having fun! I make one mistake and suddenly everyone is talking nang and namoos, and I have to have my face rubbed in for the rest of my life."(179)]]> 2019-05-01 01:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355677305 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355757115 2019-05-01 12:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/355757115 961icw09 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/356878221 "It's done, then. I'm 18 and alone. I have no one left in the world. Baba's dead and now I have to bury him. Where do I bury him? Where do I go after that?" (116)]]> 2019-05-05 00:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/356878221 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/357222762 2019-05-06 15:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/357222762 https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/357223591 "I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Tahiri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them. (165)"]]> 2019-05-06 15:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gjacobson/3rdhour/wish/357223591