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Study Guide: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - BookNotes

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CHAPTER 32: Laila

Summary

Laila remembers a gathering years before when Mammy was having one of her good days. Wajma, a neighbor woman, had been gossiping about Rasheed. She asked the other women if they knew how Rasheed’s son had died. When most said they knew the boy had drowned, Wajma went on to say that Rasheed had crying drunk that day and that the.........

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This chapter explores the growing animosity between Mariam and Laila as well as Laila’s despair for her loss of freedom and............


CHAPTER 33: Mariam

Summary

Early in the spring of 1993, Mariam stands by the living room window as Rasheed gently escorts Laila out of the house. She is in labor, and he is ever so gentle with her, calling her his flower. They come back early the next evening. This time, Rasheed enters the gate first and allows it to close prematurely, almost hitting the girl in the face. There is a shadow on his own face, and he tells Mariam brusquely to get dinner ready. Meanwhile, Laila struggles to get in the door with the swaddled bundle and the paper bag of her belongings. However, Mariam just moves off into the kitchen to prepare the meal.

It is soon apparent to the reader why Rasheed has become as mean to Laila as he has been to..........


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This chapter shows how Laila is becoming attached enough to Mariam to give into sex with Rasheed and then..........


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