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