If Akhtar leaves first, I am afraid I have to stay and help Khalida. And so I keep my silence as well as my distance. And i watch carefully for the chance to leave first”(Staples 151) Najmah also keeps her distance from Khalida because she still would feel bad because she knows she is gonna leave soon, she is also very worried that Akhtar would leave to fight the Taliban with the mujahideen before she has a chance to make her escape. Najmah fears this because then she would feel the need to stay and help Khalida with her sons. (SIP-B) Nusrat losing her sister and having PTSD from that event helped create literary elements and conflicts.This really shows towards the end of the book, with Nusrat’s sister was playing with her hair she thought of her mother. Nusrat had been thinking constantly of her mother and so when she saw how Faiz’s family was dealing with his death she saw her parents
If Akhtar leaves first, I am afraid I have to stay and help Khalida. And so I keep my silence as well as my distance. And i watch carefully for the chance to leave first”(Staples 151) Najmah also keeps her distance from Khalida because she still would feel bad because she knows she is gonna leave soon, she is also very worried that Akhtar would leave to fight the Taliban with the mujahideen before she has a chance to make her escape. Najmah fears this because then she would feel the need to stay and help Khalida with her sons. (SIP-B) Nusrat losing her sister and having PTSD from that event helped create literary elements and conflicts.This really shows towards the end of the book, with Nusrat’s sister was playing with her hair she thought of her mother. Nusrat had been thinking constantly of her mother and so when she saw how Faiz’s family was dealing with his death she saw her parents