Setting - Identify the physical settings (when/where) of the book. How do these settings affect the characters' moods or emotions? The setting of the novel is set in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, under the harsh rule of the Taliban. The Taliban rule most of the country and impose severe restrictions on the Afghan people, especially women (P.7 “She was not meant to stay out at all. The Taliban had ordered all girls and women in Afghanistan to stay in their houses They even prohibited girls from going to school.") The setting of the novel influences the emotions and moods of the characters making them depressed and stressed because it is set in a violent situation where houses are continuously bombed and land mines they are anchored everywhere. in the city (P.16 “There were bombed-out buildings all over Kabul. Neighborhoods had turned from homes and businesses to bricks and dust. Kabul had once been beautiful.”) Parvana and her family live in a one-room house after moving several times for safety, causing everything to be congested in one place. It is difficult for anyone in Parvana's family to be alone, which triggers mutual tension. The setting of the story is set in a nation struck by a turmoil of war and chaos which portrays the main character, Parvana, as depressed and deeply emotional. Tension Describe how tension is built into the novel. Discuss how this growing tension affects you as a reader. Tension begins to rise when four Taliban soldiers arrive at Parvana's apartment, ransack their home and capture her father in prison. Parvana is becoming anxious and worried about her father (P.35 “Where was her father? Did he have a soft place to sleep? Was he cold? Fatana (Parvana's mother) desperately wants her husband back (P.37 “We don't have time to wait tea. Parvana and I will get your father out of prison") Parvana and her mother began looking for their father at the prison. When they arrive, the guards reject them and beat them. Parvana and her mother return home bruised and battered (P. 46 “The mother's feet were so bad from the long walk that she could barely walk into the room. She was so worried about her own pain and tiredness, she didn't give any thought to what her mother had been through.” ) Parvana's mother is weak and languishes with emotion for her husband; the family struggles to make a living since women are forbidden to leave the house and there is no man to help earn money for the family (P.