Laila's Rising Action: Summary

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Exposition Mariam is born a harami. Mariam loves Jalil, but on her 15th birthday, he refuses to take her to Herat to one of his movies. She waits outside of his house all night, and discovers that he is inside hiding. Whenever she goes back home, she finds that Nana has hung herself. Jalil’s wives marry Mariam off to a shoemaker named Rasheed. Then Rasheed takes Mariam away to live in Kabul. Rising Action A girl named Laila lives near Rasheed and Mariam. Laila’s brothers are off fighting with the Mujahideen, and her mother suffers from depression. Her father is a book-learning man, and want Laila to get a good education. After Laila’s brothers are killed and her best friend Tariq’s family leave Kabul, her parents are killed in a bombing, …show more content…

She is also jealous of Laila’s daughter. However, they soon become friends and try to run away together. They are caught, brought home, and Rasheed brutally beats them. After Laila gives birth to Rasheed’s son, she finds out that Tariq is still alive. Mariam kills Rasheed with a shovel as he is choking Laila. Falling Action Laila, Tariq, and Zalmai find Aziza in the orphanage that Rasheed had left her at, then Mariam turns herself in for murdering Rasheed. She does this so that Tariq, Laila, and the children can leave Afghanistan. Mariam’s executed in the Ghazi Stadium in front of a lot of people. Resolution Tariq works in a hotel. After the Taliban falls, Laila feels the need to return to Kabul. Before they go to Kabul she wants to visit Herat first. When they are there she meets Mullah Faizullah’s son he then takes her to the kolba where Mariam was raised. He gives her a box that Jalil tried to give to Mariam years ago. It was filled with a copy of Pinocchio, Mariam’s inheritance money, and an apology note. Laila uses the money for the orphanage in Kabul, she then finds out she is pregnant again and if it is a girl she will name it

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