The story is told in first person point of view and the speaker is a 10 year old girl named Fatima.

Hussain Khan is Fatima’s father.

Hussain Khan has Salman oversee the other children.

Karim is weaving a Blue Bukhara rug.

Iqbal holds on to his memories by reviewing them before

falling to sleep each evening.

Fatima has been at Hussain Khan’s for three years and her

memories of her family are fading, like old, worn carpets.

Karim claims to have been to the movies twice and tells the children a story of a hero triumphing over evil.

Iqbal’s brother was very ill and that is what compelled his parents to make the decision to put their children into bonded labor.

The morning Iqbal arrives Fatima was daydreaming

that the beams of light in the workroom are swords clashing in a duel.

Ali is the name of the child who doesn't talk