Outside Reading 2

For this blog i read pages 103-155. And in these chapters the book is still told from Lila's point of view, and her mother is still trying to cope with the death of her two sons, she says that until the the mujahideen (Afghanistan's sovereignty) won the war that her sons wont rest in peace. In 1992 the jihad was over the mujahideen had won and Lila's mother started being a normal mother again cooking cleaning and being happy again so basically in this pages they are having neighbors over to they're house to celebrate the victory. The events that happened in these pages didn't really relate with me because i never lost anyone in a war. But it connects to the Americans that did, sure the celebrations might be different from apple pies to rice, but its still the same family and friends get together to celebrate. But in the book this made the mother's character come into play she went from a miserable women that didn't care about anything not even about her own daughter to a very happy and caring person. These pages also help the reader realize how something such as a war can break a family and then build it back up, it also shows the grief, terrible and horrific events it can bring.