Summarizer-Lesley-5/10/10

This section included the last two chapters, "My Mother Osama" and "A Broken Heart", as well as the Epilogue. I felt that the chapter "My Mother Osama" was somewhat unnecessary, because it told the story of a man named Tajhir who really had very little relation to the Khan family what-so-ever. The only connection was that his mother was Sultan's older sister, but the family was not very connected to Sultan so the story of this chapter didn't really relate to the rest of the book very well and was a bit of an unneccessary add. The last chapter came back to the family, but ended the book in a strange way, I thought. This chapter talked about how Leila was being courted by a man named Karim and how he assisted her as she continued to try to get her teachers registration. This chapter really ended up making me feel sorry for Leila, even more than I already did. Nothing ended up going her way, after all of her hoping and dreaming she was stuck, forced to lead a life that she hated, a life as a servant. I was glad that the Epilogue was included because I felt that, without that, the book would have been to open ended and wouldn't have provided the sum-up of what happened with the family the way it did with the Epilogue.