Analysis Of Suzanne Fisher Staples Under The Persimmon Tree

(AGG) Imagine losing someone so close to you that you live in isolation because nobody understands you and you can't understand others, this is what Nusrat struggles with in the book, Under The Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples .(BS-1) The initial loss of Margaret leads to disconnection from the people around her.(BS-2) The absence of Margaret from Nusrat’s life has made her find her true love, Faiz too.(BS-3) Because of Faiz’s death, Nusrat figures out how her parents must have felt when she left, and she feels that she has to return home.(TS) Loss has led to Nusrat’s struggle to be heard by her New York family and listening to them.

(MIP-1)The initial loss of Margaret leads Nusrat to disconnection.(SIP-A) She begins to break away
(SIP-A) The experiences she goes through leads her to empathize with her parents. (STEWE-1) Nusrat watches and listens to the pain going on in her dead husband’s house, "'It's so hard to be around Ma,' Asma says. 'Sometimes I listen to her and she infects me with hope...Sometimes I want to shake her, and say, 'Ma! He's dead! You can't go on pretending!' But I'm afraid it would kill her'"(Staples 236). Nusrat realizes how much pain it was for Fatima to lose her child. (STEWE-2)When she finally knows how her parents must have felt, Nusrat decides "'I'd like to spend some time with my mother and father, to make peace with them. I was all they had, and it hurt them terribly to lose me'"(Staples 236). She now knows how hard it must of been for her parents to have lost her, and now she must go back and make up with her parents. (SIP-B) Nusrat is able to connect both her old self, and her new self, and becomes ready to return home. (STEWE-1) And even if her parents may not handle her knew religion, she knows "'I don't think I need for them to accept me so much now that I accept myself,' she says. 'Islam showed me what I was already coming to believe.... If I'd been open to it Christianity might have taught me the same things'"(Staples 237). She has now accepted herself and connected Elaine, her christian self, and Nusrat, her Muslim self. She has put her two halfs together and made a whole.
(BS-3) Losing Margaret causes Nusrat to break away from people. (BS-2) Loss of her little sister helped her to get to Faiz also. (BS-1) When Faiz passed away she finally understood her parents, and felt a longing for home. (R) Nusrat finally overcomes her struggle to be heard and wants to reunite with her