Analysis Of Rukhsana Khan's Wanting Mor

In the name of God

“In life, you are given tests that teach you lessons”. This was told by an unknown author which says tests bring lessons to people’s life. Wanting Mor written by Rukhsana Khan tells a story about a girl Jameela who lives in Afghanistan and suffers from hard situations as the life tests by being born in a country with wars, taking her mother from her and being sent to the orphanage. Life‘s tests teach Jameela that she must be so strong to survive, instruct her helping is the best way of living and she must let go the things bothering her. Firstly, Jameela‘s life helps her learned that she must be protective and strong to survive in that situation. Since Jameela was born in a country that has had the war for so long and she lost her families and safety, she becomes a strong woman. Jameela learned to be strong as she lost her family members by the war which make them sick or killed them. For example, her mother died out of sickness according to the war. Also, the war makes her country an unsafe country so

Her father came back to bring her after a long time he left her. As a girl, she wanted to be with her family, but she thought about all the things, about her father, then she determined that who knows if her father again abandons her. That was the reason she let her father go, and Jameela let all the pain go from her heart. “No, baba. I didn’t say it right. It‘s not that I can’t go with you. It’s that I won’t go with you. I’m staying here.”, said Jameela.(pg.181) This shows that she learned a good lesson that she mustn’t depend on the people who bother her, also she should try to avoid situations which may bother her later like going with baba. She was in a difficult situation which she had to choose going with baba or staying by herself. That situation helped her to be the person that leaves the pain as she didn’t go with