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Isma, Aneeka, and Parvaiz’s grandmother was Adil’s mother. Isma’s grandmother, along with Isma’s mother Zainab, were the primary caretakers of Isma, Aneeka, and Parvaiz—until she passed away when they were 12 and Isma was 21, just a few months prior to Zainab’s death. Isma suggests that she was very close to her grandmother, and she often recites the same prayers her grandmother recited for comfort.
Isma’s grandmother Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Isma’s grandmother or refer to Isma’s grandmother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 – Parvaiz Quotes
Or Farooq would talk and Parvaiz would listen to those stories of his father for which he’d always yearned—not a footloose boy or feckless husband but a man of courage who fought injustice, saw beyond the lie of national boundaries, kept his comrades’ spirits up through times of darkness.
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Isma’s grandmother Character Timeline in Home Fire
The timeline below shows where the character Isma’s grandmother appears in Home Fire. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1 – Isma
...when they were 12 years old following the deaths of their mother, Zainab, and their grandmother, Aneeka was also there to support her sister in turn.
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Later that day at her uncle’s house, Isma overheard her grandmother saying that Karamat had recently been cruel to their family. Now, Isma thinks that the...
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...She never really knew her father, Adil, and was raised by her mother, Zainab, and grandmother before they died seven years earlier. She has recently started a PhD program, fully funded,...
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