Summary

Chapter 19

It has been four weeks since Pasha has last seen Zari. He still feels responsible for the Doctor getting killed. In one of his classes they are assigned to write about a subject of their choosing, so Pasha decides to write about the injustices faced by criminals. He writes about how the rich are able to pay off the government for their crimes, so the poor are really the only criminals in the system. His teacher, Mr. Rostami is furious, but also sympathetic. He says he’ll have to report Pasha and that he should have known better than to write something like that. He doesn’t deny the truth of the paper though, but he says if anyone finds out he didn’t report it he could lose his job and be unable to support his family.

Mr. Rostami ends up...