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- Parvana begins to take off her chador, but Nooria and Mother tell her to fetch water first. It takes six trips to fill their water tank, and Parvana hates the heavy work.
- Parvana grumbles as she hauls buckets up the stairs. No one helps her with her chores and that annoys her, but she knows that Mother and Nooria can’t help—they’d never make it up the dangerous, uneven stairs to their third-floor apartment in burqas.
- Mother and Nooria begin to put things back in the cupboard, and Mother hands Parvana new items to sell. Parvana is enraged that Mother is selling Parvana’s good shalwar kameez, but Mother insists there’s no need for it.
- Father tells the story of Malai. During the batle, the British were winning, and the Afghans were feeling increasingly hopeless. But then a young girl ripped off her veil, ran to the front of the battle and led the Afghan soldiers into victory.
- Suddenly the Taliban barges through the door, Ali screams and Nooria covers herself with her chador. Frozen from fear, Parvana watches the soldiers grab Father. Mother screams at them as they tell Father that Afghanistan “doesn't need his foreign ideas.” Mother hits the soldiers, but a soldier beats her with his rifle.
- Two more soldiers dig through the cupboard and slash the toshaks. Parvana is terrified—Father has English books hidden in the bottom of the cupboard, and the Taliban often burns books.
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