Pavana's Behavior: A Short Story

Parvana's buisness had good and bad day's where she would have to sit for hours without a customer. But eveyday parvana would be anxious to recieve another anonymes gift from the women through the painted black window. She had the same routine everday.But instead while staring at the tea boys running everywhere delivering tea, one boy tripped over her blanket spilling tea all over her iteams. instantly the boy cleaned up his cups and jumped to his feet, Parvana gasped because that tea boy was a girl from her class named Shauzia. Shauzia also had to transition into a boy to help her family out financially. Shauzia told Parvana to keep quiet about their secret then suddenly ran back to the market. Parvana was shocked and reliefed when she saw shauzia because it meant she was not alone .In my opinion, I think that there were

many more girls disguised as a boy for only one reason being to support their families. Everyday after work parvana would meet up with Shauzia and and chat about their life.

Back at the apartment room, Mrs Weera was thinking of starting up a secret school and Nooria was going to becme the teacher. Parvana felt that nooria was treated differently than her because she had to do all the dirty work. While Nooria was at home safe and sound. In my opinion, I thought that parvana was jealous of Nooria because she had all the advantages of being older. Such as not having to fetch buckets of water from outside and not having to work. One afternoon, while parvana was negotiating with a customer another gift landed on her blanket from the window lady. She quickly hid the gift away in her pocket when Shauzia came over. Shauzia found a way to make lot's of money but she knew Parvana wouldn't like it. When she told parvana how they had to dig up bones, parvana's mouth dropped open. Without telling her mother Parvana was determined to dig up the bones for only a while. Shauzia and Parvana followed a group of tea boys to their destination, the cemetery. Furthermore, the whole afternoon parvana an d shauzia collected bones to give to an uknown

man. They didn't know what the man was doing with all the bones but they chose not to ask. It was late when parvana reached home all wet, everyone was worried. parvana's mother asked her where she was and parvana was terrified s she told her family she was digging up bones to earn more money. parvana's mother told parvana she was not allowed to return to the cemetery, but parvana refused. However parvana listened to her mother and went back to reading letters.