Mishika 208 Book Report - The Breadwinner The Breadwinner is a book by Deborah Ellis. The genre of the book is children's literature. I have read many books by Deborah Ellis, Some of her books include The Cat On The Wall, Looking for X, I Am A Taxi, No Ordinary Day, Looks Like Daylight and Children Of War. I loved reading The Breadwinner, it was such an easy and delightful read. When I first was assigned to read this book for book club, I was under the impression that this book is awful, as it is such a short read and the cover was not colourful and clear. Once I started reading this book I could not put it down because it was so interesting. It is so mind blowing to see the difference in life in Canada and Afghanistan. Once I finished …show more content…
For a year and half, the country has been under the Taliban's control. Bombs exploding everywhere, hearing gunshots everyday, and being forced to stay at home and do nothing but clean. Women are not allowed to attend school, and they are forced to wear burqas to cover their bodies and faces, also they are not allowed to be outside without a man or a note from their husband allowing them to go outside. As Parvana is young, she is still allowed to go to the marketplace with father to help out, but her mother, sister, and two younger siblings are stuck in their small house. One day the Talibah takes Parvana's father to prison for having an education. Parvana and her family now have no one who can provide food for them. The only option left is to get someone to pass at a boy so they can survive. Parvana is the only one in her family who can pass as a boy so she is forced to cut her hair and is disguised as a boy. She is forced to be called Kaseem and be know as her cousin from Jalalabad. Parvana goes out everyday and earns a living for her family, while still having the fear that the Taliban may find out she is a girl and kill her. Will the Taliban ever find out that Parvana is a girl? Will Parvana have to act like a boy
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The Taliban regime was infamous for its treatment of women. Windows had to be painted black so men could not look into the windows of houses and see the women inside. Women were unable to work. Under Taliban rule, women were not allowed to be educated, unable to go to school or university. 9 out of 10 Afghan women are illiterate. Unfortunately, Meena was unwillingly cast into the role of teacher to young girls who wanted to learn how to read. Because she had been to university, girls flocked to...
Another piece of evidence is: “The Taliban have publicly executed women simply on the suspicion of adultery. In Taliban controlled regions wearing one [a burka] is strictly enforced.” The Taliban tries many ways to keep women below them by not allowing them to learn or having them wear something they may not want to or killing them based off a rumor. But, every year Malala chooses a place where human rights are being denied to travel to help fight for their rights to make our world a better place.
The society of the Taliban is almost a polar opposite of that in the United States. The group looks at women as having little to no rights and believes that their holy book, the Quran, gives reasoning to the roles of women as virtually sexual objects in their society. Their political leaders were not elected into their positions, but took them by force. It operates fifteen courts of law in Southern Afghanistan in the...
Before, I talk about Malala I’m going to talk about the main group that doesn’t want Malala to be speaking up and the rules that they have enforced in many cities in northwest Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban is an Islamic political movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mullah Mohammed Omar has been the leader of the Taliban since 1994. They formed a government called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. This government is only diplomatically known in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Taliban has strict enforcement of the Islamic law and is known for their brutal treatment of women. A few laws that the Taliban have are that men must grow beards and cut there moustaches, Muslim families can’t listen to music and all non-Muslims must wear yellow or carry a yellow clothe. Laws that the Taliban have against women are that they have to wear a burka, they are not allowed to get an education, they always have to travel with a male relative and they aren’t allowed to work. The Taliban also destroy many schools ...
when I am finished I have a totally different attitude. This book has the same concept, but on a
Islam has influenced many cultures around the world. For centuries, Islam has had an immense influence on the Afghan culture. According to this religion, women have no rights. The men took advantage of this system by translating only what they wanted from the Koran; to enslave the women in our culture for their own desires. From the beginning, the women on no account had any civil rights or have power over their own lives, and most were uneducated and had accepted what their teachers taught in schools and mosques. My family moved to the US when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. I thank god to be one of the lucky women who did not have to live in Afghanistan and for giving me a better place to live in America. Unfortunately, this was not the case for the majority of the Afghan women. Under the cruel Taliban government the women were banned to work, and were not allowed outside their homes without being escorted by a man. The film Osama, inspired by a true story, is about Osama, a young girl who did lived in Kabul while the Taliban regime. Through Osama's story, I had a chance to see what it was like to live in Afghanistan as a woman. This is a story of a girl whose faith was in the hands of many different people: her family, the Taliban soldiers, and the city judge. Osama and I have different lives on different continents; however, we both could have had more rights and better life if we were born men.
The women were not allowed to go to school. Many of the schools were bombed by the Taliban that where girls schools. The schools for girls, were hidden and very secretive. “As in most families, the girls stayed at home while the boys went to school.” (Yousafzai, 2015, p. 29). Women’s roles were to stay at home, cook, and raise children. Women had very few rights and could do very few things without a man. “A women couldn’t even open a bank account without a man’s permission.” (Yousafzai, 2015, p. 31). It was set up so women could not succeed without a man. They were oppressed to a point of being unable to anything. This blows my mind. Here in the United States, women are allowed to have bank accounts, go to school and have jobs. This hasn’t always been the case here in the United States either. Women have been oppressed all over the country and not given the same rights as men. Here in the United States, women are still struggling to get the same jobs and wages as
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Travesties are committed against women every day, in every country, in every city, town and home. In Afghanistan women are not only discriminated against, they are publicly reduced to animals. Women are deprived of basic human rights: they are not allowed to travel outside their homes without being completely covered by the traditional shroud-like burqa; they are not allowed to speak or walk loudly in public; they are not allowed to laugh or speak with other women; they are not allowed to attend school nor work; they are expected to be invisible; they are the ghosts of what were once educated, notable, and successful women. With their ruthless and extreme laws, the Taliban have effectively removed the physical presence of women in Afghanistan. The Taliban have stolen the very souls of these women and have turned them into the “living dead” of Afghanistan. The Taliban’s harsh restrictions and extreme religious laws have tainted the freedoms and basic human rights of the once valued and prominent women of Afghanistan.
Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor’s Social Penetration Theory provides for a deeper analysis on how relational closeness develops. A multi-layered onion model is used to depict the personality structure of an individual. Each layer constitutes perspectives and beliefs about oneself, other individuals, and the world (Griffin 114). Self-disclosure, the process by which we “peel back the layers,” is a gradual process that is motivated by what we perceive as the outcome of an interaction. The depth, level of intimacy, and breadth, the extent of self-disclosed areas, are essential to forming an intimate relationship. Communication privacy management, explaining the ways individuals manage the tension between privacy and disclosure, contributes to the overall outcome of relational closeness. The Social Penetration process can be applied to the concept of ‘work spouses’ to explain the high level of intimacy one would deem equivalent to a married spouse.
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Later on in the book the Taliban have control over Kabul and have enlisted a lot of rules upon all citizens but mostly the women and the way they can act, talk, look like, be treated, and more. Rasheed is almost pleased with the new rules especially since they go hand in hand with exactly what he believes in. Although his younger wife Laila is not so keen on the new rules “ ‘They can’t make half the population stay home and do nothing,’ Laila said. ‘Why not?’ Rasheed said. For once, Mariam agreed with him. He’d done the same to her and Laila, in effect, had he not?.... ‘This isn’t some village. This is Kabul. Women here used to practice medicine; they held office in the government-’ Rasheed grinned. ‘Spoken like the arrogant daughter of a poetry-reading university man that you are. How urbane, how Tajik, of you.” (Hosseini 279). He not only talks down about her beliefs but her culture and family that she was raised in.
...the Taliban has been wiped out, many villages still don't allow women basic rights and liberties because of their cultural beliefs. Until the bigotry of women in the entire society of Afghanistan can be wiped out, these instances of discrimination will only continue, and the rights of the Afghani women will remain hidden beneath the veils of their burqa's.
Parvana is becoming anxious and concerned about her father (P.35 “Where was her father? Did he have a soft place to sleep? Was he cold? Was he hungry?”). Fatana (Parvana’s mother) wants her husband back desperately (P.37 “We don’t have time to wait for tea. Parvana and I are going to get your father out of jail”) Parvana and her mother started to search for their father at the prison. When they arrive, the guards turn them down and beat them. Parvana and her mother return home bruised and battered (P.46 “Mother’s feet were so bad from the long walk that she could barely make it into the room. Parvana had been so preoccupied with her own pain and exhaustion, she hadn’t given any thought to what mother had been going through.”) Parvana's mother is feeble and languishing of poignancy over her husband; the family is struggling to sustain a living since women are forbidden to go outside their home and there is no man to help make money for the family (P.