Nana Flashcards

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chapter 1

“lazy eye”

Nana

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  • Nana’s lazy eye could represent the suffering she has been through in her life, which has been passed town to Mariam (the cyclical structure of suffering)
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chapter 1

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”

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  • Preparing Mariam for the injustice she will face later in her life
  • repitition of “always” shows how there is no escape from how hard life for an Afghani woman is
  • Forshadows Mariam’s death when she is executed for Rasheed’s death
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chapter 3

“Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have. Do you understand?”

Nana, Mariam

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  • Nana has nothing left in her life other than to carry on living and “endure”
  • Rhetorical question - Mariam doesn’t have to understand now, as she is inevitably going to when she gets older
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LACNTPN, AMAFAFAW. A.

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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”

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WLU. WE. IAWH. DYU?

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“Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have. Do you understand?”

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