Atiq goes to the mosque to pray again, and after he is finished, he wanders around the city for a little bit. Atiq decides that he is going to spend the night in the jailhouse after he had the fight with his wife. I don't understand why Atiq would go to spend the night at the jailhouse when earlier that day he left to go for a walk because he said it was so depressing. After Atiq is in the jail for a little bit, a man named Nazeesh comes in and asks if he can stay there for the night. Nazeesh lost two sons in a battle against the Soviets. It is very depressing because it seems like everyone in this city has had something devastating happen to them. Atiq said okay, and Nazeesh gave him some of the dried meat and apples that he had brought. Nazeesh then gets very secretive, and then tells Atiq that he is planning to go away as soon as his foot heals. Atiq tells him that he is no serious, and that he will never actually leave Kabul. Nazeesh argues, but eventually gets fed up with Atiq and decides to leave. While Nazeesh leaves, he mumbles that Atiq is right, and that he probably won't end up leaving Kabul. He doesn't really know what is holding him back because it seems that he has no desire to stay in Kabul, but he just can't up the courage to just leave. After Nazeesh leaves, Atiq decides that he is going to go home, too, and he decides that he is not going to take pity on his wife anymore.
When they say that everyone is a beggar in this town, I don't know how anyone could go on without wanting to ask for something. It seems like everyone has lost just about everything, and there is nothing left in the city. They must beg because no one has enough money for even the essentials because everything has been wiped out by the war.
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Did you catch the part about "music" and how the two men were both remembering how happy the place used to be many years ago? The chapter really speaks to just how bad the Taliban has warped their country. It's very sad actually.
Less text description on the chapter, and more comments/reflections is what I'm after. I know the book's chapters. I'm more interested in seeing what you thought of it.
Mr. Farrell
Wow it is amazing to see how the taliban can just come in and change Kabul completely. I feel very bad for the people of kabul and i wonder why they dont run away to a safer place. Maybe it is because they are afraid of change.
I don't understand why the people would beg because my understanding of the situation is that the town is pretty much destroyed. Who are they begging because so far it doesn't sound like anyone is better off than anyone else.
What major conflict is atiq struggling with?
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