Prose: ATSS- Chpt 1-5 Flashcards
1- What does Nana call Mariam at the opening of the book?
Harami- Bastard
1- What did Mariam do that upset Nana?
Drop the dragon sugar bowl part of her blue and white tea set
1- Where had Mariam been with Jailil that she can’t remember?
a pistachio tree with the poet Jami buried unerneath it
1- What does Nana say about ice cream?
“The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you get, Mariam? Stories of ice cream”
1- What had nana been before she was isolated?
A housekeeper to Jalil
1- What does Nana say about men?
“Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter. Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam”
2- What does Nana say about Jalil learning of their house when she was preganant?
“he sounded like a warden bragging about the clean walls and shiny floors of his prison”
2- why did Nana not get married before?
a jinn entered her body a week before the wedding day.
2- Why does Mariam learn about the day of her birth?
That Nana and Jalil have contrasting stories about the day, Nana more negative and isolated to make Mariam feel ashamed whilst Jalil’s is less isolated and more a team effort
3- What does Nana say aboout Jalil buidling the kolba and helping out/ sending people/things/ being involved?
that it is his idea of penance
3- what did Nana do on ‘ration day’?
be miserable and horrible to Jalil’s sons he had sent
3- What did Mariam do once to impress Nana? and did it work?
She shouted insults at one of her siblings. Yes it made her front rotten tooth be displayed through laughing
3- who were the regular visitors to the kolba?
Habib Khan- Gul Daman’s leader
Bibi Jo- daughter of Nana’s dad’s friend
Mullah Fazullah- village Koran tutor
3- What did she long to do?
Go to school
3- What’s a quote that shows Mariam’s longing to go to school?
“[She] longed to place a ruler on a page and draw important-looking lines”
