A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS: DETAILED STUDY GUIDE / NOTES

CHAPTER 34: Laila

Summary

Laila’s favorite of all early pleasures is lying next to baby Aziza, her face so close she can watch her big pupils dilate and shrink. She runs her fingers over the baby’s soft skin and whispers into the crown of her head things about Tariq, the father who will always be a stranger to her and whose face she will never know. However, Laila is always careful never to mention him by name. Sometimes she catches Rasheed looking at Aziza in the most peculiar way. Then, he will ask what was between her and Tariq whom he calls yaklenga, the cripple, and even after she..........

Notes

This is a significant chapter because there is the foreshadowing that Rasheed is coming to suspect that Aziza is not.........

CHAPTER 35

Summary

From that night on, Mariam and Laila do their chores together. Mariam grows accustomed to this tentative but pleasant companionship. She even becomes anxious waiting for Laila and Aziza if they sleep in. When Aziz first spots Mariam in the morning, her eyes always spring open with excitement, and she crawls quickly to her. Once Mariam picks up the little girl, Aziza quickly pops her thumb in her mouth and buries her head in Mariam’s neck. Mariam has never been wanted like this before. “ ‘Why have you pinned your little heart to an old, ugly hag like me?” She murmurs into Aziza’s hair.

“Huh? I am a nobody, don’t you see? A dehati. What have I got to give you?’ She has found in this little creature the first true connection in her life of false, failed connections.’ “

In January, 1994, the two warlords do join sides and turn on Massoud and just as Rasheed predicted, the war turns even uglier. There is looting, murder, and increasingly, rape, which is used to intimidate civilians and reward militiamen. Mariam hears of women killing themselves before they can be raped, and men who, in the name of honor, kill their.........

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This chapter shows how deeply the relationship between Laila and Mariam grows. Together, they plan to leave this.........

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