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Nate Crain
1/23/2015 02:37:23 am
Why does this book play with my heart strings?!
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Madison Hoffman
1/25/2015 07:34:15 am
I agree. After I've finished reading a few chapters I notice that I'm in a different emotional state than when I began reading.
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Hannah Marshall
1/25/2015 09:58:29 am
I'm not going to give anything away but after finishing part 3 I just feel like someone ripped my heart out and was playing with it like a toy. I was so sad and now I feel like someone is trying to put it back into place because I just love how part 3 ends. It really is an emotional part but I truly love it and I can't find a better way to describe a mothers love than how he did in those chapters.
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Corben Davis
1/25/2015 11:41:38 am
I agree, this book can completely change your attitude for a couple hours.
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Riley Burghart
1/25/2015 12:35:13 pm
duuuuuuuuuuuude. I know right? I've been wondering this the entire book! It's like Mr. Author meant to do that. There are so many emotions to deal with in this book. Usually, I like who I like and I hate who I hate but I don't even know which is which right now!
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Nixon
1/27/2015 12:08:57 pm
I need a "like" button on this site:)
Riley Bahre
1/25/2015 01:20:02 pm
Just good storytelling, I suppose.
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Nate Crain
1/23/2015 03:09:14 am
There isn't really a single point that appals me more than any other. The way women are portrayed and treated is awful, especially by Rasheed and the Taliban. It honestly makes me sad that after all these years, parts of the world are the same or worse as they were years and years ago.
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Corben Davis
1/25/2015 11:44:02 am
I completely agree. The fact that a women fifteen years of age basically has no say in marrying a 45 year old. When in America this is illegal.
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Megan Avila
1/25/2015 06:37:27 am
I want to know how I have restrained myself from skipping to the end of the book and just seeing how it all ends.
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Hannah Marshall
1/25/2015 09:59:35 am
I have been tempted to do that but I can't find the strength to read the last chapter. I want everything to fall in chronological order and I feel like reading backwards would throw everything out of proportion.
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Stephanie Farney
1/25/2015 12:28:36 pm
Not going to lie, I have read the last page. Fortunately though, I have no idea how they got there, so I'm still interested.
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Nixon
1/27/2015 12:11:07 pm
I am shocked and appalled that you would skip to the end and read the last page!
Nixon
1/27/2015 12:10:02 pm
This is not actually a question about the book...funny tho;)
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Megan Avila
1/25/2015 06:40:40 am
I agree with Nate. It's crazy because, while women of the U.S. have access to education, high-paying jobs, and rights to live how we choose, there are women on the other side of the world who receive none of these. We really take what we have for granted.
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Madison Hoffman
1/25/2015 07:36:54 am
Yeah that's probably why this book is hard to read sometimes because we don't really know what it's like to be without those things.
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Madison Hoffman
1/25/2015 07:29:57 am
My question is why do things keep getting worse for Mariam and Laila?
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Madison Hoffman
1/25/2015 07:32:17 am
I would say the most shocking thing is that as the time period in the book gets closer and closer to present day, the women are treated worse and worse.
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Nixon
1/27/2015 12:12:23 pm
I can't believe nobody commented on this! That is one of the most shocking elements to me as well!!
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Hannah Marshall
1/25/2015 09:54:07 am
How is Rasheed able to keep beating Laila and Mariam in his old age? He should have had a heart attack by now and died!
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Laura Peck
1/25/2015 09:56:10 am
I agree!! How does he still have the energy to do this?!
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Josie McClendon
1/25/2015 10:22:54 am
I don't even know how he can hurt someone like that in the first place! He deserves to die!
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Stephanie Farney
1/25/2015 12:26:09 pm
I know, right? I'm 17, and I hardly have the energy to get out of bed in the morning, let alone beat someone up (I don't do that though). He must have a lot of energy for an old dude.
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Hannah Marshall
1/25/2015 09:55:44 am
One thing that was shocking was that when Zamai was born he was a lot like Laila and Mariam. Now that he gets older he starts acting like Rasheed; needy and rude.
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Hannah Marshall
1/25/2015 10:00:21 am
Zalmai*
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Laura Peck
1/25/2015 10:01:49 am
Definitely didn't see your post before I posted my own! I am slightly worried that he will end up like his father because he doesn't have knowledge that his father died with no honor.
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Laura Peck
1/25/2015 09:58:24 am
Do you think Zalmai will end up anything like his father?
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Laura Peck
1/25/2015 10:00:39 am
I am shocked at the fact that quite a bit of the awfulness in this book took place only a bit over 10 years ago. It's crazy what can happen in the world that we aren't aware of (aside from the fact that we were a little more innocent and our insolence was excusable in that way.)
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Josie McClendon
1/25/2015 10:24:11 am
That is so true. It really makes you think about how sheltered we really are even with the media saying they show us all the bad things.
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Josie McClendon
1/25/2015 10:20:51 am
How can a man disregard a female life like Rasheed does with Mariam, Laila and Aziza?
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Alexis Young
1/25/2015 11:31:46 am
It was just the norm in this part of the region. Women were nothing but objects, to be owned, and married at a very young age, which I think is horrifying. I do agree it's ridiculous to know that men like Rasheed completely disregard the fact that women are people, too.
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Josie McClendon
1/25/2015 10:25:28 am
The thing most shocking to me is how when I think i have gotten to the worst, most depressing part of this book, something happens to play with my heart and make me even more sad. I can't handle it!!
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Alexis Young
1/25/2015 11:35:40 am
Same!! Or when you think things are looking up, and all is well, something else comes along to crush all your hopes and dreams. It's depressing!!!
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Amanda Wilde
1/25/2015 12:40:39 pm
Right?! This book is tearing me apart but I still cannot put it down.
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Alexis Young
1/25/2015 11:22:35 am
My question is, why do things get worse and worse for the women in this book? First Nana getting ditched by Jalil, then Mariam, then Laila.. women keep getting it bad, and the men - though rude and hateful - have it much better.
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Alexis Young
1/25/2015 11:25:58 am
One thing that shocked me was really getting to experience how awful the women really did have it here. It's astonishing to think this was the norm - it makes me more thankful to be living here in the U.S.
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Corben davis
1/25/2015 11:45:13 am
Even though I've read about how women are treated in these kinds of countries after reading how they're treated, it still shocks me.
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Corben davis
1/25/2015 11:49:12 am
In this book*
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Stephanie Farney
1/25/2015 12:18:06 pm
My question is, why do things have to suck so much for women in this book?
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Amanda Wilde
1/25/2015 12:39:55 pm
I agree. But I think the author is exposing us to how bad it truly is in the world for some women.
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Stephanie Farney
1/25/2015 12:21:21 pm
This book has really given me a change of perspective. Of course, we are all aware of the injustices women in other countries have to face every day, but seeing it from a first-person perspective helps you actually understand what they go through and how much we take for granted.
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Riley Burghart
1/25/2015 12:38:42 pm
I agree. This book has done a great job changing my perspective of women's place in society during this time and in this area. It's very hard to relate as I really have not been exposed to an experience like this. And I don't want to relate. It's just hard to believe women were treated this way. Treated this way for something genetics made them of which they cannot control.
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Riley Burghart
1/25/2015 12:34:59 pm
I was completely shocked when Rasheed made Mariam chomp on the rocks, and when Laila's life and family was utterly destroyed. It's hard to read scenes like that in a book.
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Amanda Wilde
1/25/2015 12:38:42 pm
My question is how has Mariam had the courage to stay in that house for so long without wanting to leave or doing something she might regret?
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Riley Burghart
1/25/2015 12:39:46 pm
How will Mariam take the baby situation in? Will she be jealous? Will she become angry? Or happy and thankful?
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Amanda Wilde
1/25/2015 12:42:11 pm
What has shocked me the most is how bad the war is in this country, how bad the women are treated, and just as a whole how depressing this book is. And yet it is still one of the best books I have read.
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Riley Bahre
1/25/2015 01:30:32 pm
Well, war has never exactly been a tame activity by any stretch of the imagination, but I must agree that this story does an exceptional job at showing how bad this situation can be.
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Riley Bahre
1/25/2015 01:46:27 pm
I can't necessarily say that this story has shocked me too terribly; though it has definitely caught me off guard at certain points, the most prominent being Mariam's first real abuse and the mother gathering her daughter's scattered body parts following a rocket strike (only because of the slight relation this corpse had to Laila.).
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