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The Swallows of Kabul Chapter 13
Atiq decides to go to Qassim's house to try and plead with him. He wants to get Zunaira set free. I thought it was weird that Atiq got so obsessed with this woman so quickly that in about a day, he is risking his job and life to save her's. Although this visit to Qassim is not very productive, Atiq keeps trying. Everyone that Atiq talks to about the prisoner thinks that Atiq is going mad because he never did anything to help anyone else before, so why is he starting now, especially for a "criminal" that he just met. I think that Atiq is crazy, especially when he goes to the jail to set her free. He just opens the gate and tells her to go. She doesn't understand what he is doing, so she just sits there. I would probably think that this man is crazy too if I were a person sitting in jail and he just came over, opened my cell, and told me to run away. I thought it was either very admirable or very crazy that Zunaira didn't want to go because she did not want to mess up anyone else's family. I think that now that her husband is gone, she realizes how much she misses him, and she regrets the fight. Even though she had good reasoning behind her anger, I think she took it a little too far, and it ended up fatal.
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Yeah, Italians call this the "lightning bolt" where love at first sight can occur only once in your life. Still, I agree, he fell pretty hard very fast for her. maybe a bit unrealistic, but it saves from the story dragging out.
The perception is that Atiq is losing his mind. The Author really plays into this, and soon the entire city is convinced. This is a dangerous place to be accused of that sort of thing.
I think Zunaria was very brave not to run away, because of the damage she'd do to Atiq's career, but this actually will cause more problems later on. She should have taken him up on the offer.
Mr. Farrell
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