Swallows of Kabul Chapter Five

In this chapter we start off with Atiq at the mosque again. This time he is there for the Isha prayer. While he is there he reads his texts and then he gets and overwhelming feeling like his head is going to burst. Then the congregation meets outside and the only the veterans are still there. Atiq then goes into the streets and ends up at the jail house. He decides he is going to stay there for the night since things are overwhelming at home. While he is there he is startled by Nazeesh. Nazeesh is a new character in this chapter. He is a sixty year old man who is having troubles at home with a loved one being ill just like Atiq. Nazeesh brings Atiq some food. While they are eating they begin to talk about Nazeesh's father being very ill and how Nazeesh is fed up with him complaining all the time. Nazeesh then says that he is going to leave and never come back. Atiq disagrees with him and tells him that he has said he is leaving many times yet he never does. They begin to have a little argument then Nazeesh leaves the jail house but on the way out he says that he agrees with Atiq that he know he says he will leave but he never does.