Chapters 5-6 Summary and Analysis

In Ali, Nura, Sultana's older sister, decided to take Sara and Sultana on a furniture buying trip with her in order to cheer up Sara. When Ali wrangled an invitation to go on the trip as well, Sultana became enraged. Sultana took Ali's new headdress and flushed it down the toilet, causing Ali to break his toe in his attempt to stop her. Afterward, Sultana became afraid of what her father would do to her when he learned what happened. In order to distract their father, Sultana took a stash of pornography Ali hid in his room and took it to the mosque. The pornography included a group of slides that had Ali's name written all over them. Within hours the mutawas, the religious men, came to Sultana's house and told Father what they had found. Father was so...