Bella was online today. She read, analyzed, and discussed chapters 3 and 4 of A Thousand Splendid Suns. Bella described the characteristics of the protagonist's father that indicated he was a different socio-economic class than Miriam. Bella also discussed the symbolism of the protagonist's father tossing her in the air and her mother saying that he will drop her. We then discussed the double standards of males and females in the Afghanistan society.