Poverty Quotes in A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Quote #10

He watched little emaciated boys carrying water in their jerry cans, gathering dog droppings to make a fire, carving toy AK-47s out of wood with dull knives, lugging the sacks of wheat flour that no one could make bread from that held together. (3.44.37)

This is a heartbreaking image of the reality of poverty. It's even more upsetting that the children are playing with toy guns, because the war is one of the biggest causes of widespread poverty.