The Breadwinner is an amazing book, written by Deborah Ellis. This book is about a girl named Parvana. Her father is arrested for no reason at all. Her mother, Fatana, goes into a depression slump, so an old family friend moves in with them. Nooria, the oldest sister, sits and cleans while watching Maryam and Ali, the babies of the family. But, Parvana is put to work. Mrs. Weera wants Parvana to become a boy and work in Afghanistan, with watching the Taliban abusing every woman breaking their strict rules in the middle east. Parvana works odd jobs to feed her family, but does she get caught? Actually, she is not the first person to do this, and gets away with it. She runs into a school friend, and they end up digging bones for money. Parvana …show more content…
Suddenly, the Taliban, who have taken over that part of Afghanistan, burst the door down of their one room home and take the family father into custody! On page 30, the Taliban soldiers say to the father,”’Why did you go to England for your education?’ The soldiers yelled at Father. ‘Afghanistan doesn't need your foreign ideas!’ They yanked him toward the door.” I chose this sentence to show the external forces in Parvana’s life. It turns out that this incident scars Parvana and her family mentally for a long while. This is the sign that Parvana is going to have to change into a boy externally too. Father was the only man in the house, and Parvana already had a boy body. Parvana did not know that this would be one of her last days as a girl. Soon, she would be known as Kaseem, and her life would be different for a long …show more content…
Only something like this would happen if she were a boy, not a girl. One day when Parvana was on her blanket, looking for customers to read letters for, and a Taliban walked up to her for her service! She was very nervous she would get caught as a girl. After Parvana read the letter to the Taliban man, she noticed it was addressed to his wife. She was then informed that she is now passed. Then, there is the moment when Parvana witnessed something incredible. “He shook his head and held out his hand for the letter. Parvana folded it and gave it back to him. His hands trembled as he put the letter back in the envelope. She saw a tear roll from his eye. It rolled down his cheek until it landed in his beard.” These problems on Parvana’s outside changed her inside
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I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb is a powerful book of Malala's life story. This book begins with a beautiful account of her childhood, with fond memories of her home, the gorgeous Swat Valley, in which she lived, and her beloved school. This novel also gives readers insight into the Pashtun culture and daily life. Malala is named after Malalai, a powerful Pashtun woman who changed the face of war with her powerful poetry. Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, played a significant role in shaping Malala's personality. He went against his cultural tradition and celebrated the birth of his beloved daughter, Malala. Her father is a champion of girls’ education; he is a woman’s rights advocate. He embraces democracy with passion and believes that every child in this world should be educated, especially women. Malala was born in 1997, as her father was struggling to establish his school against a deeply corrupt government and a mufti (a Muslim scholar) who opposed the education of girls. Inspired by her father words, Malala absorbed her father’s ideals and develope...
Parvana’s father is a great teacher who is not only educated but teaches her how to read and write and the history of her country, “Parvana had grown up with his stories, which made her a very good student in history class.” (p.29) They discuss life before the Taliban, providing Parvana with hope for a better life. The geographical experiences people have, gives Parvana a small knowledge of places outside of war and Afghanistan. These people teach her as she works, “Sometimes they told her of the beautiful mountains or the field of opium poppies blooming into flower, or the orchards heavy with fruit.” (p. 134) Shauzia, Parvana’s friend through the novel, teaches her about geography and shows Parvana new places when they chat together, “’In Pakistan, I head down to the Arabian Sea, get on a boat, and go to France!’” Parvana has exceptional teachers around her who may not have a degree or the occupation of a teacher but, go on to teach her things about life and the geographical landscape that she has never
The Soviet-Afghan War changed the course of millions of lives. Samady’s father is no exception. He went from an engineering student to a person devastated by war. Without the war, he would have never endured a coma or known what it was like to live in a refugee ghetto. More importantly, he would not be the person his daughter has
Bringing Life or Seven Years in Afghanistan is a story from an Engineer alumni from ORU, Joshua Atkinson, that recounts destitution and honor from working to develop a devastated Afghanistan. His memories from the dreaded 9/11 attacks has detailed Atkinson's journey to Afghanistan for working with the nation and the people during the outbreak of the war. His novel has only great telling from life in Afghanistan to showing difficulties in rebuilding the country to even the calling God has called to him for.
The speaker's relationship with her husband had to go over a few changes. At first, she did not want anything to do with her husband, she was still fourteen years old consequently feeling unready on handling such a big responsibility, but she had no other choice but to stay with him as she was a part of an arranged marriage. Later on, the speaker accepts her relationship with her husband and
The constant hum of street vendors yelling, car horns blaring, and poor people complaining acts as the soundtrack to the family drama within the small apartment on Hector Street. There was never a quiet moment, and between the four sisters, an overworked mother, and an entitled father, the place was bustling and busy enough to burst. But to a young Sara Smolinsky, this chaotic ensemble was home. In the novel Bread Givers, immigrant author Anzia Yezierska writes about the realization of the American Dream for the ambitious and determined Sara Smolinsky, but the price of success is high. Sara starts her journey in the impoverished ghetto of Hester Street, and she escapes its dirtiness and shame, going on to achieve the American Dream. The apartment
Her mother informs her, she has no choice and Parvine becomes child bride. On the next several pages, you see the agony Parvine is faced with as she escapes on her wedding and seeks refuge from her aunt. Satrapi creates a visual
...alized that “a girl was not, as [she] had supposed, simply what [she] was; it was what [she] had to become” she was starting to admit defeat, and then finally when she begins to cry, it is here that the narrator understands that there is no escape from the pre-determined duties that go along with the passage of a child into being a girl, and a girl into a woman, and that “even in her heart. Maybe it (her understanding that conforming is unstoppable) was true”
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Afghanistan; Taliban controlled, discrimination and love everywhere yet nowhere at the same time. It’s a nation where culture and tradition are of immense importance, especially to the older generation. Over 53% of Afghan population is below the poverty line, making the country one of the Earth’s poorest. Life would be lived on a day to day basis, not knowing if it’s safe to be outside, when...
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.
...ous and being there can raise concern. These political concerns relate closely with issues addressed in the film particularly with the war in Afghanistan and the threat of terrorism. The senior Taliban leader Ahamd Shah depicts an accurate image of what members of the Taliban are like, which means killing any American who comes into their country.
Hamid’s fiction deals with varied issues: from infidelity to drug trade in the subcontinent and, in the light of contemporary developments, about Islamic identity in a globalised world. His first novel, Moth Smoke (2000) won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2000. His other novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Decibel Award and the South Bank Award for Literature. This book serves as a testament to his elegant style as he deftly captures the straining relationship between America and Pakistan.
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