Personal Narrative: Najmah's Journey
(MIP-2)After Najmah lost her mother and baby brother she had to go on a journey through the mountains to get to a safe refugee camp, but instead when they arrive their she decides to go find her father and older brother so they can return to their land. (SIP-A) After being with Akhtar and his family for awhile she realizes she can’t get any closer to them since she will have to leave them soon and go find Nur and Baba-Jan. (STEWE-1) Before going on their journey Khalida cuts Najmah’s hair so that she looks like a boy. This is Najmah’s first haircut, which was like leaving a piece of her behind. “She picks up a pair of scissors that lies on the pile of quilts and snips at my hair in short strokes until it bristles out all over my head. When she has finished,
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But I know I cannot travel alone to Peshawar to look for my father and brother” (131). “I feel I must keep my distance from Khalida and Akhtar because I know I will leave them soon. If Akhtar leaves first, I am afraid I will have to stay and help Khalida. And so I keep my silence as well as my distance. And I watch very carefully for the chance to leave first” (151). She never said anything, but she had been thinking of what she wanted to do, which was leave to find Nur and Baba-jan. (STEWE-2) A truck arrives in Torkhum, so Najmah takes this as her opportunity to leave for Peshawar. “There is barely any room between the pile of pears and the cover, but I am afraid that if I try to ride outside I’ll be discovered, or even worse, I’ll fall off when the truck gathers speed or carteens around the sharp bends in the road” (155). Najmah leaves Torkhum and doesn’t say anything to anyone because she was afraid if she did she would have to stay there longer, because they would tell her it’s too dangerous to leave on her own. (CS) The events leading up to Najmah leaving for Peshawar have shaped her into the character she becomes at the end of the
But I know I cannot travel alone to Peshawar to look for my father and brother” (131). “I feel I must keep my distance from Khalida and Akhtar because I know I will leave them soon. If Akhtar leaves first, I am afraid I will have to stay and help Khalida. And so I keep my silence as well as my distance. And I watch very carefully for the chance to leave first” (151). She never said anything, but she had been thinking of what she wanted to do, which was leave to find Nur and Baba-jan. (STEWE-2) A truck arrives in Torkhum, so Najmah takes this as her opportunity to leave for Peshawar. “There is barely any room between the pile of pears and the cover, but I am afraid that if I try to ride outside I’ll be discovered, or even worse, I’ll fall off when the truck gathers speed or carteens around the sharp bends in the road” (155). Najmah leaves Torkhum and doesn’t say anything to anyone because she was afraid if she did she would have to stay there longer, because they would tell her it’s too dangerous to leave on her own. (CS) The events leading up to Najmah leaving for Peshawar have shaped her into the character she becomes at the end of the