Tariq- Tariq is a boy who is raised in Kabul, close to Lailia. His leg was blown off by a landmine when he was a young boy. His support of his parents, never lets his disability get the better of him. He and Lailia are best friends as children and fall in love as teenagers. Tariq and his family were …show more content…
Traditional and skillful, educates Mariam what an ideal wife should be; obedient, compliant, and able to have children. Learning that Mariam is unable to have children he loses patience with Mariam. Rasheed physically and verbally abuses Mariam. He then marries Laila to replace his dead son. When Laila gives him a son, Rasheed’s good traits come out and he is caring, patient, gentle, loving, and kind. However that doesn’t translate to Laila, Laila’s daughter, Aziza, or Mariam. Rasheed’s manipulative, abusive doings, eventually gets himself killed by Mariam, killing him in