What is the history of Afghanistan in the past 50 years regarding significant political and/or cultural happenings and changes?

Questions for A Thousand Splendid Suns Instructions: 1. A minimum of 5 typed pages, dbl spaced, size 12 font. 2. Type the question in bold; use single spaced format for the question listed. Then answer the question directly after using double-spaced format. Reminder: Intro and closing paragraphs. Questions: 1. What is the history of Afghanistan in the past 50 years regarding significant political and/or cultural happenings and changes? Did anything surprise you? Also, look at an atlas and list the countries that surround Afghanistan. Answer this question using bullets and SINGLE spacing. 2. Mariam’s mother says: “Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have.” Explain her mother’s statement. Give 2 examples of how Miriam and her mother each endured their experience early in the book? What do Mariam and Laila do to endure what they experienced? 3. Several times Mariam passes herself off as Laila’s mother. In what way is their relationship like mother-daughter? Did each of the women grow up to be like their mothers? If so or not, provide 2 or more examples to explain/illustrate your assessment/ How are Mariam and Laila’s mothers different and how are they the same? 4. Why does Laila marry? 5. The Taliban forbid “writing books, watching films, and painting pictures;” yet the film Titanic becomes a sensation on the black market. Why would people risk the Taliban’s violence to watch the film? Why do you think this particular film became meaningful? 6. Who returns after we had believed him to be dead? Had you suspected the depth of Rasheed’s deceit? How would things be different had the person not returned? 7. Why does Mariam refuse to call witnesses at her trial? Why didn’t she try to escape with Laila and Tariq? What are the other options? 8. Once the class ends in December and you hear a reference to Afghanistan explain the difference in what you would have thought previous to reading the book and how you will think of the country nowadays