What Is Parvana's Role In The Breadwinner

Even though women may be constricted from the tasks that they like, they will make sacrifices for their family members in order for them to survive. In a Deborah Ellis’s novel, The Breadwinner, we follow the story of a young girl named Parvana. Parvana’s life had turned upside down under the Taliban’s rule, but she still kept her head high and support her family. The young protagonist, Parvana, is affected by other character’s choices within the story; Taliban took her father away, Mrs. Weera convinced her to disguise as a boy and Shauzia befriends her. When the Taliban took Parvana’s father away, she was really devastated and trying to think that her father will come back while her life had just changed drastically. “Each sound made Parvana hopeful and fearful at the same time” (Ellis 35). After father was gone, the weight of being the family’s breadwinner had just been thrown on Parvana’s shoulders suddenly. “Take your father’s writing things and his blanket, and go to the market” (Ellis 74). Parvana’s role in the family before father was taken away wasn’t that large, but after he was taken away, her role is now considered the most important in the family because she provides an income for them. Mrs. Weera wanted her to disguise as her cousin, Kaseem. She was against that idea because she feared

Parvana now have someone who she can talk to, work with and spend her days in the market with someone rather than just herself. “How’s business?”(Ellis 97) “From what the other boys tell me, I’d make more than I’m making now, but what’s the use of talking about it? Do you miss school?”(Ellis 98). While being with Shauzia, Parvana is now more rebellious and more risk taking. “No”(Ellis 115) “I don’t want to quit yet. Shauzia and I want to buy trays, and things to sell from the trays. I can follow the crowd that way, instead of waiting for the crowd to come to me. I can make more money.”(Ellis