The role of women changes drastically throughout the book. The years 1972 through 1991 was when it was “a good time to be a woman in Afghanistan” (135). Most men, Rasheed not included, “did not mind that their wives walked among strangers with makeup on and nothing on their head” (125). Khala Rangmaal, Laila’s teacher, said “women and men are equal in every way and there was no reason women should cover if men didn't” (111).but in 1992, all that changed. “Strict Islamic laws ordered women to cover, forbade travel without a male relative” (260). The complete opposite of what it originally was. And in 1996, the Taliban made many rules. Women must stay at home at all times, they were not to show their faces at any time, cosmetics, jewelry, and even laughing was forbidden. And absolutely no school. Eventually, in 2003, everything became alright for women again.…