Khaled Hosseini's And The Mountains Echoed

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In chapter one of, And The Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini, Saboor tells his children Abdullah and Pari a story of fantasies that his made up. In chapter two, Abdullah plays as a narrator. Abdullah and Pari are very close and he takes care of her as his own child, because their mother died from giving birth to Pari. Pari loved to collect feathers, and two months before she was sold, Abdullah had walked to another village and traded his shoes for a peacock feather as the last gift. Parwana is their stepmother, and uncle Nabi is her brother who works for a very wealthy family in Kabul city. Abdullah started to cry when he realizes that Pari is sold to Mr.Wahdati family. Parwana had lost a two-week-old baby Omar, because the weather was

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