Ask students to choose two of the characters and study their relationship (i.e., Parvana and Asif, Parvana and Hassan, Parvana and Leila, or Asif and Hassan). Students can consider how the characters interact; how the relationship benefits the characters; what personality traits the relationship brings out in the characters and if and how the relationship changes throughout the novel. Students should support their study with specific examples from the novel. Have them write their findings in jot notes, an essay or a graphic organizer. Alternatively, they could write and perform monologues or work in pairs to role-play a scene with the two characters. They could improvise a new scene, or enact one, such as pages 32–40 with Parvana and Hassan; pages 46–50 or 71–74 with Parvana and Asif, and pages 131–32 or 140–41 with Parvana and Leila.
Drama; English Language Arts
