Bookclub-in-a-Box presents the discussion companion for Khaled Hosseini s novel And the Mountains Echoed

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2 Bookclub-in-a-Box preent the dicuion companion for Khaled Hoeini novel And the Mountain Echoed Hardcover novel publihed by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, Toronto, Canada Novel ISBN: Quotation ued in thi guide have been taken from the text of the hardcover edition of And the Mountain Echoed. All information taken from other ource i acknowledged. Thi dicuion companion wa written by Jo-Ann Zoon and Marilyn Herbert, B.Ed. Herbert i the founder of Bookclub-in-a- Box and an international peaker with more than 30 year experience a a teacher and chool librarian. Bookclub-in-a-Box i a unique guide to current fiction and claic literature intended for book club dicuion, educational tudy eminar, and peronal pleaure. For more information about the Bookclub-in-a-Box team, viit our webite. Bookclub-in-a-Box dicuion companion for And the Mountain Echoed (E-PUB) ISBN: (E-PDF) ISBN: Thi guide reflect the perpective of the Bookclub-in-a-Box team and i the ole property of Bookclub-in-a-Box BOOKCLUB-IN-A-BOX Unauthorized reproduction of thi book or it content for republication in whole or in part i trictly prohibited.

3 C O N T E N T S 1 BOOKCLUB-IN-A-BOX Khaled Hoeini And The Mountain Echoed READERS AND LEADERS GUIDE 2 INTRODUCTION Novel Quickline Key to the Novel Author Information CHARACTERIZATION Nabi Nila Wahdati Pari (Abdullah Siter) Abdullah Parwana Suleiman Wahdati Idri Timur Bahiri Marko Varvari Adel Pari (Abdullah Daughter) FOCUS POINTS AND THEMES Family Sacrifice, Lo, Letting Go Identity WRITING STYLE & STRUCTURE Style, Structure Framework Shifting Point of View Fairy Tale Interview Letter SYMBOLS Red Wagon Mak Photograph Art Tree and Root Feather Div Mountain LAST THOUGHTS & DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FROM THE NOVEL (QUOTES)...53 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

4 2 B O O K C L U B - I N - A - B O X BOOKCLUB-IN-A-BOX Reader and Leader Guide Each Bookclub-in-a-Box guide i clearly and effectively organized to give you information and idea for a lively dicuion, a well a to preent the major highlight of the novel. The format, with a Table of Content, allow you to pick and chooe the pecific point you wih to talk about. It doe not have to be ued in any precribed order. In fact, it i meant to upport, not determine, your dicuion. You Chooe What to Ue. You may find that ome information i repeated in more than one ection and may be cro-referenced o a to provide inight on the ame idea from different angle. The guide i formatted to give you extra pace to make your own note. How to Begin Relax and look forward to enjoying your book club. With Bookclub-in-a-Box a your behind the cene upport, there i little for you to do in the way of preparation. Some reader like to review the guide after reading the novel; ome before. Either way, the guide i all you will need a a companion for your dicuion. You may find that the guide interpretation, information, and background have parked other idea not included. Having read the novel and armed with Bookclub-in-a-Box, you will be well prepared to lead or guide or liten to the dicuion at hand. Latly, if you need ome more hand on upport, feel free to contact u. What to Look For Each Bookclub-in-a-Box guide i divided into eay-to-ue ection, which include point on character, theme, writing tyle and tructure, literary or hitorical background, author information, and other pertinent feature unique to the novel being dicued. Thee may vary lightly from guide to guide.

5 R E A D E R S A N D L E A D E R S G U I D E 3 INTERPRETATION OF EACH NOVEL REFLECTS THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE BOOKCLUB-IN-A-BOX TEAM. Do We Need to Agree? THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS NO. If we have parked a dicuion or a debate on certain point, then we are happy. We invite you to hare your group alternative finding and experience. You can contact u via our webite ( by (info@bookclubinabox.com), or by phone ( ). We would love to hear from you. Dicuion Starter There are a many way to begin a book club dicuion a there are member in your group. If you are an experienced group, you will already have your favorite way to begin. If you are a newly formed group or a group looking for new idea, here are ome uggetion. Ak for people impreion of the novel. (Thi will give you ome idea about which part of the unit to focu on.) Identify a favorite or major character. Identify a favorite or major idea. Begin with a powerful or pertinent quote. (Not necearily from the novel.) Dicu the hitorical information of the novel. (Not applicable to all novel.) If thi author i familiar to the group, dicu the range of hi/her work and where thi novel tand in that range. Ue the dicuion topic and quetion in the Bookclub-in-a-Box guide. If you have further uggetion for dicuion tarter, be ure to hare them with u and we will hare them with other. Above All, Enjoy Yourelve

6 INTRODUCTION Novel Quickline Key to the Novel Author Information

7 I N T R O D U C T I O N 7 INTRODUCTION Novel Quickline Spanning decade, continent, and generation, And the Mountain Echoed i a powerfully woven tory of the joy, orrow, acrifice, and betrayal that both bind and fracture familie. The novel open with a father haunting folktale about a montrou div, a giant of Afghan folklore, who knock on the door of a poor family and demand that a favorite on be urrendered. When the father et out to reclaim the child, the div how him to be living happily in a paradie, playing with other children. The father i given a choice: Either take the boy home to a grim life in a village blighted by drought, or leave him where he i with the promie to never ee him again. It i a fable meant to prepare the children of Saboor, the poor Afghan father telling the tory, for the coming rupture in their own live when three-year-old Pari i eparated from her beloved brother Abdullah and old to a wealthy couple in Kabul. The conequence of thi deperate act echo down through the generation, radiating from Afghanitan to France, Greece, and America. The novel read much like a erie of linked hort torie, with each chapter focuing on a primary character who hare a connection, by blood or fate, to the novel central tragedy. Adding to each other and illuminating what happened before, the torie include that of the children tepmother note

8 8 B O O K C L U B - I N - A - B O X and her beautiful, diabled iter living in a poverty-tricken village in 1950 Afghanitan; and that of the children tep-uncle who erve a chauffeur to the couple who raie Pari a their own. Pari time in Pari, where he grow up with no memory of her former life after her adopted mother whik her away from Kabul, i chronicled; a well a that of a Greek platic urgeon who come to Kabul to operate on wounded children, and hi childhood friend, Talia, who remain in Greece. The tale of two Afghan-American making a return viit from California to reclaim the home of their father, after the fall of the Taliban, add another layer to the tory, a doe that of the lonely young on of an Afghan warlord. The novel culminate with the narrative of Abdullah daughter in California, who wa lovingly named after her father lot iter, and ha a life-long yearning to reunite her now ailing father and aunt. Key to the Novel The Ripple and Echo Effect In a converation with the Hindutan Time, Hoeini provide an important key to hi book. The bulk of writing thi novel, and really the joy of it, wa in puruing the far reaching ripple of thi one act, dicovering the live it had touched and tranformed and all the unexpected way which it till echoed through the decade. (Jain) Every choice we make end u down a different road. Becaue our live are interconnected, it not a olo journey, but one in which other are compelled to join. A a reult, our action can reonate in way that are unimaginable to u at the time. When impoverihed Afghan villager Saboor ell hi daughter, not only i the life of three-year-old Pari irrevocably changed, but o too are the live of many other, both in the immediate aftermath and in the year to come. Generation are impacted by the book central tragedy. note

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