Chapter 7 1953 May and June
The girls get a detention. Ellie wins ‘first in class’. There is a crowning ceremony and a lunch. She excitedly tells her mother who is calmly (icily) happy for her, but seems more interested in the fact that Ellie won’t be home for lunch.
After the crowning ceremony the girls get the afternoon off. Ellie returns unexpectedly to the house to find her mother in bed with her uncle (I thought this was going to happen).
Is the mother doing this because she thinks this is the only way she can saw Ellie?
Chapter 8 1953 June
The mother and Uncle Massoud are getting married and they are all moving ‘uptown’.
Ellie asks her mother why she accepted him when she use to say that she couldn’t stand him.
You sacrifice yourself for others.
She has to say goodbye to Homa. Homa gives her a necklace with a Homa bird pendant. Ellie gives Homa a notebook.
She is desperately unhappy about the move.