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Close Reading Organizer - Part I Directions: Read each summary entry and think about which themes listed in the Themes Key apply to it, then color in those themes in the Theme Tracker. Next, write a few sentences of Analysis to explain how the themes you chose apply to each summary section.

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History and Memory in Afghanistan

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Suffering and Perseverance

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Shame and Reputation

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Love, Loyalty, and Belonging

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Gender Relations

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Female Friendship

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Mariam remembers the first time she heard the word “harami,” or bastard. She is five years old, and it’s a Thursday—the day her father Jalil comes to visit her at the small one-room house where she lives with her mother, Nana. She accidentally breaks a piece of Nana’s treasured tea set, and Nana calls her a clumsy harami. Only later does Mariam understand the shame associated with the word, staking her out as an unwanted person who will never find love.

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Mariam adores Jalil, who never calls her such a name, but instead visits and tells her stories about their city, Herat, and the famous poet Jami who lived there. Mariam believes his stories because she’s never been into the city. Nana, though, says Jalil spins lies, and has betrayed them by casting them out.

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Jalil has three wives and nine legitimate children. He owns a cinema and is very wealthy. Nana was one of his housekeepers, but then became pregnant with Mariam.

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Summary Her own father disowned her and Jalil sent her off to live in the one-room “kolba.” Nana reminds Mariam never to trust men as a result—a man will always find a way to accuse a woman.

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