When Qatrina is forced to cut the hand of her husband, after this incident she does not speak or keeps her face to the walls, to the shadows. In rooms she rushes towards corners or wandering into the burning noonday sun, “fully expecting her eyes to have evaporated from their sockets in all that heat.”(244) she becomes insane and due to fear of Taliban, her response is “Marcus’s wife had nailed the books overhead in these rooms and corridors” (11) she is afraid that Taliban would have burned the books and her mental deterioration is complete when she saves them out of harms reach. It is the effect of …show more content…
He fills a glass with water in darkness but set it on shelf “something has erupted inside his breast. He lowers himself into a chair and begins to weep, silently.”(332) he is the grandson of a watch smith, “he appeals for leniency from the god who decree the point of no return.”(136) Benedikt is also affected badly due to war he admits it in front of Zameen “he said he was defecting and she must go with