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Another stylistic element that Khaled Hosseini uses is parallelism.
Note some examples:
p. 91 ―An hour later, I couldn‘t sleep. I kept tossing and turning
as my relatives grunted, sighed, and snored.‖
p. 103 ―For now, the lot was bare, save for dirt, stones and weeds.‖
p. 130 ―After everything he‘d [Baba] built, planned, fought for,
fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his
life: one disappointing son and two suitcases.‖
p. 194 ―The idea of fatherhood unleashed a swirl of emotions in
me. I found it frightening, invigorating, daunting, and
exhilarating.‖