- Yes, I found that the chapter ended before it should have. With Seierstad ending the chapter in the way that she did, made me question exactly what I was supposed to get out of the chapter. Was the chapter meant to show the expectations put on the eldest son in the Afghan culture? Or, perhaps was it show how strict schooling was in an Afghan classroom? I just do not know.
What do you think about how Seierstad titles her chapters?
- I thought that the author did quite well when choosing what to title her chapters. I found that each title pertained to the main focus of each chapter. For example, the chapter titled, The Dreary Room, was a chapter discussing Aimal's daily life in the shop that he himself calls the "dreary room".
In the chapter, The Dreary Room, did you think that there was too much of back story given on the political changes in Afghanistan?
- Personally, I thought that there was. During the course of the chapter, though I realize that some of the information given was useful knowledge, some seemed to be repetitive, which made it hard to keep everything straight. I found this to be especially true when Seierstad started to described the UN Conference.
What did you think of Seierstad's portrayal of Mansur in the chapter, The Carpenter?
- I actually really enjoyed seeing how Seierstad chose to portray Mansur in this chapter. At the start, Mansur was depicted as one who embroiders a story in order to make himself look good, but towards the end of the chapter, a deeper sense of his character is shown in his struggle to follow his father's orders about the carpenter's fate, when he knows what will happen to the Carpenter's family. It showed more of a humane side to Mansur, which I enjoyed reading.
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