a. Who are the main characters of your book? Describe their personality and what seems to motivate them.

In my outside reading book, A Thousand Splendid Suns the main character is Mariam Jo. She is a young girl growing up in Afganistan. She is a very positive girl for what her lifestyle is like. She lives with her mother, who she calls Nana. Nana is not as positive and is always upset. She has had a hard life. Although Mariam is not allowed to attend school, she has a tutor, Mullah Faizullah, who she feels is the only one who truly understands her. Mariam's father who she calls, Jalil doesn't live with mariam and her mother. Mariam was not an expected child. Jalil is the wealthiest man in the city, Herat, and nana was one of his maids. But when they found out she was pregnant, she was forced to move out of the city into the plain outside the city, what Mariam calls the Kolba. Mariam loves Jalil, and comes to visit her once a week, which is what keeps mariam motivated. Nana doesn't like that she gets so excited because Nana knows that Jalil is full of lies. Mariam refuses to believe her, but when Jalil doesn't come one day, Mariam decides to go to his house. There she realizes that Nana was right all along when he doesn't let Mariam in his house. But this realization comes too late, and when Mariam get back to the Kolba she find Nana dead, she had killed herself.