The Crucible Quotes With Page Numbers

1. Before Babi takes Laila to school and goes to work, Mammy fights with him “ferocious[ly as she is] . . . pacing and ranting, [whereas] Babi sit[s and] . . . nod[s] obediently” (108).
2. When Hasina tells Laila and Gita how to fend off a suitor, Laila does not her about “how proud she was of [Babi’s] regard for her or how determined she was to pursue her education” (114-115).
3. When Mammy invites neighbourhood women over for gatherings, Mammy says, “‘His students loved him . . . because he wouldn’t beat them . . . [and] they respected him . . . because he respected them’” (120).
4. During the day of the fatiha for the deaths of Ahmad and Noor, Laila “sat beside Mammy and dutifully mourned [their deaths], but, in Laila’s heart, her true

brother was alive and well” (140).
5. When a week passes after Tariq leaves for Ghazni, Laila worries about him which makes her “believe that [none of] the hardships a person ha[s] to face [is] more punishing than the . . . act of waiting” (126).
Conflict
1. When Laila walks home from school, Khadim sneaks up behind her with a water gun and sprays her with “thin jets of warm water [as] . . . the other boys [are] . . . laughing [and] . . . chant[ing], ‘Smell your hands!’” (118).
2. When Mammy tells a story to Laila about her dead brothers, Laila “wish[es] Mammy would notice that she [is] alive . . . but, Laila knew her future was no match for her brothers’ past” (142).
3. When Mammy tells Laila that she wants to live to see her sons’ dream come true, Laila is “stung that she was not the reason” (144).
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When the leadership council elects Rabbani president, the factions make accusations and “the Mujahideen, arm to the teeth [and find] . . . the common enemy in each other” (172).
5. Two weeks after Tariq and Laila had sex, Laila lies on the living-room couch as she battles handling “guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and [also] . . . the conviction that [the sex] . . . was not sinful” (186).
Literary Devices
1. At Tariq’s house, when he responds with distaste to Laila missing him, Laila realizes that boys “treat friendship [like] . . . the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly” (133). ANALOGY
2. When Mammy lies in bed and tells Laila how she feels about losing Ahmad and Noor, she says, “‘Some days . . . I can’t breathe then, like someone’s stepping on my heart’” (143). SIMILE
3. When Babi comes home with news that the Soviets will leave in nine months, Mammy says, “‘Najibullah is the Soviets’ puppet president. . . . The war will go on’” (153). METAPHOR
4. When Laila, Babi, and Tariq go to the Red City fortress with a driver that tells a story about Genghis Khan, the driver finishes with, “‘[That] is the story of our of our country, one invader after another. . . . Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets’” (146).

ALLUSION
5. In April 1992, when Najibullah tries to change his image to a “devout Muslim”, Babi says, “‘Too little and far too late’” (159). IDIOM
Theme
1. When Babi tells Laila about his dream to move to America, Laila knew “he would brush aside [his dream for Mammy.] . . . [So,] they would stay until the war ended” (151). SACRIFICE
2. When Laila goes to Tariq’s house for dinner, she remembers Babi being against the ethnic divide in Afghanistan as he says, “‘It’s nonsense . . . We’re all Afghans . . . but when one group rules over the others . . . there’s . . . rivalry’” (130). SEGREGATION
3. When Laila walks home from school talking about suitors with Hasina and Giti, she remembers Babi say, “‘Society [will not be] . . . success[ful] if its women are uneducated’” (114). FEMINISM
4. When Tariq askes Laila to marry him right away at a mosque, Laila responds, “‘I can’t . . . It’s my father I can’t leave,’ Laila said. . . . ‘His heart couldn’t take it either’” (184). FAMILY LOYALTY