A thousand splendid suns final character ID (not the major characters but the hard ones )
What is the sole relic nana had from her mother
A blue and white China set
"You're not dumb, Khala Mariam. And Kaka Zaman says that, sometimes, the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor."
Aziza
Acted like a hostess embarrassed by the state of her home
Aziza
Adopted a stammer during her time at the orphanage
Aziza
Asks "what if he leaves'
Aziza
Chose a gumball machine but was forced not to have it
Aziza
Gave Mariam unconditional love
Aziza
Had a manner of speech, a cadence and rhythm, thoughtful pauses and intonations, so adult, so at odds with the immature body that housed the voice.
Aziza
Has nightmares after she starts living with Tariq
Aziza
Has to say the mujahideen killed her father in order to be accepted into the orphanage
Aziza
Is a harami like Mariam
Aziza
Name means the cherished one
Aziza
She filled all the spaces with effusive speech, delivered in a high, ringing voice. She was tangential with her topics, and her hands gesticulated wildly, flying up with a nervousness that wasn't like her at all. She had a new laugh. Not so much a laugh, really, as nervous punctuation, meant, Laila suspected, to reassure.
Aziza
She is the noor of Mariam's eyes and the sultan of her heart
Aziza
Shrieks when she sees Najibullah' body hung by the taliban
Aziza
Want to be jack in the titanic
Aziza
Yes, but I die a hero," said this person, "while you, Rose, you spend your entire, miserable life longing for me."
Aziza
had turned into a calm, pensive little girl, with a demeanor that to Laila seemed beyond her six years.
Aziza
who with lightheaded authority had taken it upon herself to wake Zalmai every day, to dress him, feed him his breakfast, comb his hair. She was the one who put him down to nap, who played even-tempered peacemaker to her volatile sibling
Aziza
A rotund old woman whose late husband had been a stone carver and friend's with nana's father and made a great show of rubbing her hip. She brought gossips and complaints of failing health
Bibi jo
Who are responsible: the harami or its creator
Creator
Sang this sing to Mariam: "Lili Mi birdbath, Sitting on a dirt path, Minnow sat on the rim and drank, Slipped, and in the water she sank"
Jalil
Who believes they named Mariam after the tuberose, one of their favorite flowers
Jalil
Who claims to have taken Mariam to the tree where the great poet jami was buried
Jalil
Who is one of the wealthiest men in Herat, owning a cinema, land in karikh, land in farah, three carpet stores, a clothing store and a black 1956 Buick Roadmaster
Jalil
Who visits Mariam on thursdays
Jalil
Who was horseback riding when his daughter was being born
Jalil
made a great show of tending to Mariam in front of everyone after nana's death
Jalil
Calls Laila "Yellow Hair"
Khadim
Tariq fights this person with his fake leg
Khadim
was eleven, like Tariq. He was thick, tall, and had a severe underbite. His father was a butcher in Deh-Mazang, and, from time to time, he was known to fling bits of calf intestine at passersby.
Khadim
"That's why our Soviet comrades came here in 1979. To lend their neighbor a hand. To help us defeat these brutes who want our country to be a backward, primitive nation. And you must lend your own hand, children. You must report anyone who might know about these rebels. It's your duty. You must listen, then report. Even if it's your parents, your uncles or aunts. Because none of them loves you as much as your country does. Your country comes first, remember! I will be proud of you, and so will your country."
Khala Rangmaal
Calls Laila "Revolutionary Girl" because of how she'd been born the night of the April coup of 1978
Khala Rangmaal
Name means Auntie Painter
Khala Rangmaal
Says the Soviet Union is the best nation in the world
Khala Rangmaal
The person Laila sees in the orphanage who has no spark of recognition in her eyes and is visiting with three boys and a girl
Khala Rangmaal
Wore her hair tightly in a bun, did not wear make up or jewelry and did not cover up. She forbade her female students from covering up because men and women are equal in every way
Khala Rangmaal
sharp-faced young woman with heavy eyebrows. On the first day of school, she had proudly told the class that she was the daughter of a poor peasant from Khost
Khala Rangmaal
Inherits her blonde hair color and thick lashes from her mother who inherited it from her grandmother
Laila
Name means "Night Beauty"
Laila
Rises from bed hungry for the sight of Tariq
Laila
The verses of the Koran are the only true possession this person has ever had
Mariam
This person feels like they will never have legitimate claims to the things other people had such as love, family, home and acceptance
Mariam
Who apologizes for their birth
Mariam
Whose earliest memory is that of the sound of wheelbarrow's squeaky iron wheels bouncing over rocks
Mariam
Ahmad and Noor had left Kabul for Panjshir up north, to join his forces and fight the jihad
Massoud
Fights Hekmatyar
Massoud
Leads the northern alliance, the sole opposition group against the taliban
Massoud
Lion of Panjshir
Massoud
Made a deal with the Soviets in the 1980s
Massoud
Mammy's hero, Rabbani's ally, the brooding, charismatic Tajik commander
Massoud
This person cried for peace after the leadership council formed after the Soviets withdrew collapsed
Massoud
This person personally oversaw Ahmad and Noor's burial
Massoud
gave an interview to a pair of journalists who claimed they were Belgians originally from Morocco. As they're talking, a bomb hidden in the video camera goes off. Kills this person and one of the journalists. They shoot the other one as he tries to run. They're saying now the journalists were probably Al-Qaeda men."
Massoud
had warned the West about terrorist camps in Afghanistan, and pleaded with the U.S. to help him fight the Taliban.
Massoud
thoughtful face, eyebrow cocked and trademarkpakol tilted, would become ubiquitous in Kabul. His soulful black eyes would gaze back from billboards, walls, storefront windows, from little flags mounted on the antennas of taxicabs.
Massoud
Dostum defected and joined this persons communist regime after the Soviets left
Najibullah
In April 1992, the year Laila turned fourteen. _________________ surrendered at last and was given sanctuary in the UN compound near Darulaman Palace, south of the city.
Najibullah
Is the Soviets puppet
Najibullah
Tries to portray himself as a devout muslim and tried to reach a settlement with the Mujahideen when he felt the noose tighten around Kabul
Najibullah
the Taliban had dragged this person from his sanctuary at the UN headquarters near Darulaman Palace. That they had tortured him for hours, then tied his legs to a truck and dragged his lifeless body through the streets. And then hung him up in front of everyone
Najibullah
A person on the bus believes the The Soviets will send weapons to this person in Kabul
Najibullah.
On the wall behind Khala Rangmaal's desk was a map of the Soviet Union, a map of Afghanistan, and a framed photo of the latest communist president, _______________, who, Babi said, had once been the head of the dreaded KHAD, the Afghan secret police
Najibullah.
"I wish my father had had the stomach to sharpen one of his wives and do the honorable thing. It might have been better for me."
Nana
"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."
Nana
"What rich lies! Rich man telling Rich lies"
Nana
"You are a clumsy little harami. This is my reward for everything I've endured. An heirloom-breaking, clumsy little harami"
Nana
Who almost married when she was fifteen but didn't because a week before a jinn entered her body
Nana
Who calls Mariam a good daughter only after she Insults the boys bringing them food
Nana
Who gave birth alone with no help
Nana
Who has a lazy eye and frequent jinn attacks
Nana
Who was disowned by her father when she was pregnant
Nana
Who was one of jalil' housekeepers
Nana
Who is a mugwort according to jalil' wives
Nana and Mariam
How old was Mariam the first time she heard the word Harami
5
Overthrew King Zahir while the king was in Italy getting medical treatment- He was prime minister in Kabul when Mariam was born. He made Afghanistan a republic now, and he is the president. There are rumors that the socialists in Kabul helped him take power. Not that he's a socialist himself, mind you, but that they helped him. That's the rumor anyway."
Daud Khan
This person was killed hut but not before the communist rebels had killed some twenty members of his family, including women and grandchildren. There would be rumors that he had taken his own life, that he'd been gunned down in the heat of battle; rumors that he'd been saved for last, made to watch the massacre of his family, then shot.
Daud Khan
When Mir Akbar Khyber had been murdered (a prominent communist), his supporters were blaming the murder on this person'sgovernment.
Daud Khan
Had sent another group of Soviet consultants back to Moscow
Daud Khan.
Rumors went around that he going to change sides and join Hekmatyar. Massoud will have his hands full then, fighting those two. In January 1994 he did
Dostum
had fought the Soviets in the 1980s alongside the Mujahideen but had defected and joined Najibullah's communist puppet regime after the Soviets had left. He had even earned a medal, presented by Najibullah himself, before defecting once again and returning to the Mujahideen's side. For the time being, Rasheed said, He was supporting Massoud.
Dostum
the flamboyant Uzbek commander, leader of the Junbish-i-Milli faction, who had a reputation for shifting allegiances
Dostum
A small bearded man with a large belly who came by once a month or so with chicken and dyed eggs for Mariam
Habib khan
Americans armed this man
Hekmatyar
Dostum changed sides and join this person
Hekmatyar
Excluded from the leadership council after the Soviets left. Was offended
Hekmatyar
Fought against Massoud//cause of the civil war in Afghanistan
Hekmatyar
Rasheed accuses Aziza of being like this person (when she cries)
Hekmatyar
Supports the hazaras
Hekmatyar
has the support of the Pakistanis. Mortal enemies with Massoud
Hekmatyar
launched his rockets at Massoud from the southern outskirts of the city
Hekmatyar
leader of the Hezb-e-Islami faction, a Pashtun who had studied engineering and once killed a Maoist student.
Hekmatyar
"I think you look like a queen"
Jalil
"You couldn't stretch a leg here without poking a poet **********"
Jalil
"You were a good daughter Mariam jo. Even in birth you were a good daughter."
Jalil
******* it, Mariam, don't do this to me,"
Jalil
Buried in a village cemetery not far from where Mariam's mother is buried
Jalil
Left Mariam money, Pinocchio and a letter
Jalil
Left a letter for Mariam
Jalil
What piece of the China set did Mariam break
The sugar bowl with a dragon meant to ward off evil