Jasper's Emotions In Jihad By Rosanne Hawke

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In the novel ‘Jihad’ by Rosanne Hawke, Jasper is a boy that lives in Afghanistan and he then found himself struggling in life without any of his friends understanding his emotions after his dad passed away. Throughout the story Jasper’s emotions changed and he opened up more about his personal issues.
At the beginning of the novel Jasper was in a very difficult time and he was very sad and depressed. After his father’s death he was struck with grief and since his body wasn’t found he experienced denial and didn’t get the closure he needed to move on. Jasper changed into a new person and many of his close friends and family feared that he had lost his personality and meaning. He had a hard time expressing his emotions and ended bottling them all up and keeping to himself. “He looked a shell of the old Jasper, like a Queensland Blue with all the seeds scraped out” (pg.30) …show more content…

“You are a fool! You need a camel to kick you! You have everything, yet you give it up for this feeling of self-pity?” (pg.164) He was so used to everyone being cautious around him and waiting for him to get over it that he didn’t realize that feeling of anger that he had always felt. The fact that God let his father die he hated it and made him feel angry towards God. He didn’t have the chance to grieve properly because he always thought that he should’ve been there with him. That was when Jasper finally realized that there was nothing that he could’ve done about it so he finally was able to move

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