Under the persimmon tree essay
Imagine being a afghan, scared every day, knowing that a group of people called the Taliban are forcing strict rules, rules like that women can not go out of the house without a man with them, or that people can not watch tv or fly a kite. This is happening in the book Under The Persimmon Tree, by suzann Fisher Staples, and also in real life. In Afghanistan, citizens are forced to follow the rules that the Taliban made. The Taliban will come to people's houses and take their food and the men in their family, just like they did at Najmah's house. Najmah, who lives in Afghanistan is one of the refugees that is fleeing from the Taliban. Nusrat, who lives in Pakistan is teaching refugee kids that came from Afghanistan. The Afghans, are fleeing because the Taliban are causing distrusting throughout Afghanistan. In the book, the Taliban, were pictured to be evil. Najmah had to face conflicts they made for her. In real life they are evil, mean, and have many strict rules. There are many
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similarities in the book and in real life. Najmah and Nusrat had to face many conflicts with the Taliban, like Najmah having to live without her brother. In the book, Staples really shows how the Taliban was towards the Afghans and how they affected them. Najmah knows how harsh and mean they are because when the Taliban said "to repay us for having helped our enemy, you must come and fight with the Taliban"(Staples 17). The Taliban, want everyone to obey them and do what they say and their laws say. Najmah knows how the Taliban will steal "wheat and chickens and sugar"( 15) from people for no reason. The Taliban, steals food from innocent people making them starve. Najmah knows that "Khalida wears men's clothing"( 83) because the Taliban made a rule that women can not go out of their house into public. Women have to stay in their houses so Najmah and khalida have to dress as a boy to go to the refugee camp. Nusrat knows the Taliban have rules when they say "you're in violation of the dress code"(97) to Asma. Nusrat was stunned because the Taliban never showed up at there house before. Those are some of the conflicts that Najmah and Nusrat had to face with the Taliban. In real life, the Taliban are harsh, they have harsh laws they put on people like that women can not go out in public without a male. "Every day the Taliban are killing innocent people for no reason" (Young). They kill innocent people if they're not following their strict rules they put on them. "The Taliban is a terrorist group in afghanistan" (Young). A terrorist group is a group of people that bring terror and fear into people's lives. They use violence to prove their point. "The capital city of afghanistan has 12% of the total population of afghanistan because the Taliban are forcing them into the capital city and less people are living in urban areas" (Young). They have tons of rules and force people to do stuff like to believe like them. They are forcing people to live in the capital city and not urban areas. They want the afghan people to be more like them. "Afghan women are scared everyday because the Taliban are restricting them from going anywhere" (Young). They make tons of rules that restrict people from doing things they might want to do. From these quotes, people can see how harsh the Taliban are to the Afghans. Najmah got impacted in many ways by the Taliban.
"My mother cries for most of the two days after the Taliban took baba jan and my brother away" (Staples 30). Najmah's mother was crying for many days and was barely eating after the Taliban took away Najmah's brother and father. "My mother and I decided I should go take the goats and sheep back up the mountain to graze" ( 56). After the Taliban took Najmah's brother, Najmah has more responsibilities to do like her brothers chores. Najmah remembered when khalidia said "We will walk through mountains, where there is snow" ( 85). Najmah will have to walk through the mountains with snow to get to pakistan to find her brother. "How will we walk to torkham without food" ( 100). Najmah and a lot more people walked to the pakistan, they eventually ran out of food partly due to because the Taliban took most of it. With these quotes, people can see how the Taliban affected Najmah and the
Afghans. Overall, Taliban are cruel, harsh, and mean and how they affected Najmah's life and how they were in real life. In the book Under The Persimmon Tree, by suzann Fisher Staples, she really shows what the Taliban do. In the book the Taliban take Najmah's brother and father to fight with them, they take most of their food, and make strict rules for them to follow. Najmah go affected in many ways by the Taliban. In real life it is similar, the have harsh rules and are mean. They also restrict people from doing stuff. With all these quotes people should know how in the book and real life the Taliban are similar in many ways and can have a big affect on people.
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(MIP-1) Najmah’s encounter with the Taliban ignited her initial changes and developments -- We see some development and change of mindset after this encounter, but the source of it all was when Baba-jan told Najmah to “take care of [her] mother” (Staples 14). There are two major points of interest in Najmah’s maturity and character change, and her encounter with the Taliban was the first step in a journey of a thousand miles. (STEWE-1) A starting point was when we saw how Najmah was frightened and hesitant to go to the stream because her older brother, Nur, tormented her by pretending there was a leopard’s pug mark at that same spot earlier, and she “hesitate[d] where the two paths split’” (Staples 4). STEWE-2)
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◦ This can be somewhat related to how the Taliban are killing all the helpless people who don’t have the same ideals as the Taliban.
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