(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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‘I miss the boys too, you know…it broke me too, the boys dying...It’s very hard, Laila. So very hard.’ (pg. 150)
Interaction with his or her environment:
Interaction With Other Characters:
‘Women have always had it hard in this country…but they’re probably more free now…and have more rights than they’ve ever had before….” (pg. 135)
Interaction with his or her environment:
“Babi was a small man, with narrow shoulders and slim, delicate hands, almost like a woman’s” (pg. 109)
Interaction With Other Characters:
“Several men were trying to pull them apart. Babi wasn’t among them. He stood by the wall, at a safe distance from the fight, with Tariq’s father, who was crying.” (pg. 171)
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook: ‘…There’s a teacher living down the street, Hakim is his name, and I see his wife…walking the streets alone with nothing on her head but a scarf. It embarrasses me…to see a man who’s lost control of his w
‘That’s your business…To make nothing your business. Even your own son’s going to war.’ (pg. 110)
Interaction With Other Characters:
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook:
“…and she was thinking of Babi…who made such a sad, pathetic opponent to Mammy. ‘Sometimes…I feel like you’re all I have, Laila.’ (pg. 184)
‘…And the husband fancies himself some kind of advanced intellectual. But he’s a mouse. Look at him. Doesn’t he look like a mouse?’ (pg. 80)
‘…His students loved him…They respected him, you see, because he respected them…’ (pg. 120)
“The streets became so unsafe that Babi did an unthinkable thing: He had Laila drop out of school.” (pg. 177)
“Mammy, ferocious…pacing and ranting; Babi, sitting, looking sheepish and dazed, nodding obediently, waiting for the storm to pass.” (pg. 108)
“Babi helped Laila with her homework and gave her some of his own. This was only to keep Laila a step or two ahead of her class…” (pg. 135)
Interaction With Other Characters:
Physical Characteristics:
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook:
“All day, this poem about Kabul has been bouncing around in my head… ‘One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.’(pg. 192) (allusion to the title)
“He was wearing a secondhand T-shirt with a picture of San Francisco’s red bridge on it…The last thing she was aware of was seeing something thud to the ground…On it, the tip of a red bridge poking through thick fog.” (pg. 194)
Interaction With Other Characters:
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook:
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical outlook:
Physical Characteristics:
“Though he could hardly afford it…he’d hired a driver for the day. He wouldn’t disclose anything…about their destination except to say that…he was contributing to her education.” (pg. 146)
“…Babi would never leave without her…even though Mammy was no more a wife to him now than she was a mother to Laila.” (pg. 151)
