Summarizer, Mike, pg. 106-131

In the first of two chapters read for this assignment the lives of the relationships between mother and children of Bibi Gul, who is Sultan's mother, were summarized. The conditions and brief history of the apartment and village that Sultan's family lives in was also summarized. The village has been rattled with bullets from the past civil wars that took place in Afghanistan. Sultan is the master of the four bedroom apartment, which houses many people. In the next chapter, Mansur becomes attracted to a woman while working at Sultan's bookshop. He illegally goes on a date with the beautiful woman, and makes plans to propose to her, but the woman never returns to the shop to give him an opportunity to do so. Mansur is still wanting to marry a woman, and his friend Rahimullah tells him how he can get sex with women without getting in trouble himself. Rahimullah attracts a woman into the back room, and Mansur runs away from the shop before he can give into the temptation.

The author opens the first of these two chapters by describing the depression of Bibi Gul. She does this by describing her eating habits and other habits that can be attributed to depression. She then describes how the depression came about. She does this by writing about the life of each of Bibi Gul's children, in order, with other bits of information that can explain Bibi Gul's depression. The next chapter is started with Mansur being introduced to this unknown beautiful woman. His probable feelings of during this encounter are described. These feelings were described as a product of a good-hearted desire to have a woman in his life. Then the events of his date are described, along with his feelings then, and when the woman never returns to the shop. Later, his shock is described when Rahimullah casually describes his essential rape of other women. His feelings of pity for the women who was lured into the shop so that he could rape her are also well implied when he runs out of the shop in the last sentence of the chapter. By doing this, Mansur seems like a very good-hearted man who simply wants a woman in his life.