Can God Die, The Dreary Room, pg,. 194-213 Summary and Analysis

Fazil, the nephew that Sultan sent home, is doing detention homework and does not like it. He cannot answer the question properly. He tells his grandmother that the teacher makes him nervous. Fazil does his reading about the Prophet. He studies prayers and then goes to sleep. He is up at five the next morning for school.

Fazil is Mariam's son. She was widowed when the boy was three and married her dead husband's younger brother. Yunus enrolled Fazil in Esteqlal, which was one of the best schools in Kabul. Mariam thinks it is best that Fazil is in school and not at Sultan's working.

There are fifty boys in Fazil's class and he attends school the next day.

The Dreary Room begins by discussing Aimal, who...