Chapter 1,

The atmosphere in chapter 1, is      devastating because Rashid’s wife left him and Rashid .  Rashid is the son of Haroun,Soraya, Soraya is the mother of   Haroun . Soraya left because the sadness  of the city finally crept in through the windows.She would normally sing every day, and Haroun would tell stores to the sad city to try and chear them up. Rashid would drink from the drinking water and ne able to tell amazing story’s. Haroun did not bealive him he thinks that he’s lying to him   making it up.

“In the sad city of   Alifbay there was a small  sad city so ruinously sad it had forgotten it’s name.” I choose this paragraph (standsa) because the  author is describing how sad the city is.