Assignment: Perspective
Name:
1. Reread the Kabul poem. How/why do you think Hosseini was inspired by this poem?
2. Do you think that Hosseini gives an effective women’s perspective?
3. Pick out one element from each of the three excerpts and explain how it enhances the readers
understanding of the character and improves the point of view of the story. How does it help you
understand about who and what you’re reading?
 Mariam #1:
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Mariam #2:
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Laila:
4. Rewrite one of the excerpts from the perspective of a different character.
Keep the basic situation the same but change the character - a child, an older person, a man, a
rich person, an American or anyone you want.
5. Describe how your story was impacted by putting a different character into that situation?