"Now, though, they squatted at every street corner, dressed in shredded burlap rags, mud-caked hands held out for a coin. And the beggars were mostly children now, thin and grim-faced, some no older than five or six. They sat in the laps of their burqa-clad mothers alongside gutters at busy street corners and chanted"
The diction and imagery here shows what Amir sees when he is back in Kabul. The war and the oppressive government has resulted in a lot of homeless mothers and children. Mothers were not allowed to work, so when the fathers died or went for the war, the mothers and the children end up on the streets. Themes: war, poverty, gender bias, strict government.
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