Discussion Notes #4

Chapters 13-15 

~Discussion Notes #4~

11 May 2015

By: Megan Teehan 

Atiq compares Zunaira to a martyr and he compares Qassim to the devil. Why?

-Imagery
-Qassim is the devil because he embodied all the bad, but he was doing his job.
-Zunaira is not much like a martyr. Ironic that he calls Zunaira a martyr when his own wife is more of a martyr than Zunaira.
-Hypocritical when Atiq says Zunaira's husband deserves to die from being abusive when Atiq is abusive to Mussarat.

"We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten"-Zunaira
-Anger for the Taliban (#subtweet)
-Not only affected their lives, but ended their lives. No point in living.

Mussarat encourages Atiq to run away and says, "You of all men, love"
-Atiq isn't a man that loves, so it's weird that Mussarat says this.
-Mussarat knows she'll die, so she wants Atiq to be happy. Not understandable why she would be brutally murdered for Atiq. She is the Christ figure.
-Contrast of love because Mussarat really loves him, but Atiq doesn't have love for her. He has emotion, but is unsure of what it is.
-Mussarat shows what love really means to sacrifice her life for him.

"In love even beasts become divine" -Said Mussarat and Atiq thought about it at the end
-Atiq was a beast but is becoming divine.
-Relates to other parts of book, but most importantly life.
-Mussarat is described by this quote. Atiq has to overcome and handle Mussarat, but she becomes divine by sacrificing her life.

What if Zunaira know what was happening? What would she do?
-She would not carry through with the plan because she accepted her fate and was okay with it.

Atiq's dream interpretation
-His guilt was the cause. Subconscious. Very guilty.
-Didn't know how she died, but envisioned it.

Where did Zunaira go? What happened to him?
-He went insane. He was slowly going crazy throughout the book, but really lost it at the end.
-Wanted him to suffer more
-Escaping into desert?
-Predicted she would run away

Life and death have the same volume
War ruins children

Mussarat says that he can leave her and Atiq says that he has already thought about it. Rude!