The novel Parvana is set in Afghanistan and shows the difficult life of a family, who live in a war torn country. The family in focus consists of Parvana, Mrs Weera and Nooria. The members became distraught as their father was taken from their house by the Taliban, a violent religious military group. This meant that they had to change their ways to survive without him. First the Taliban had taken over their city, Kabul, then they took one of their parents and slowly the family was losing Mother as well. After Father was taken Mother became distressed and could no longer cope without him. Parvana and the women in her family had to become risk takers to live. Echoing in her ears were the words her father said to her as he was pulled away from the house, “Take care of the others, my little Malali.”…
Author Susan Fletcher once wrote, “Shahrazad’s women stood at the door, the women who prepared her for her nights with the Sultan. ‘Go, Marjan,’ Shahrazad said softly. ‘I have the tale here.’ She tapped her temple. ‘I’ll see you in the morning.’ I only hoped that she would” (Fletcher 109). This quote by Fletcher shows how Shahrazad was a brave and confident woman, which is one of the values in the story. The title of the book is Shadow Spinner, by author Susan Fletcher. Shadow Spinner is a historical fiction novel about a girl’s life in Persia. The girl’s name is Marjan, and she gets thrown into a scary world of sneaking outside the harem, telling stories, and getting into trouble. This story is both historically accurate and inaccurate, shown…
their stories. The audience sees the different roles of women, life under Taliban rule and how…
In the novel “Parvana,” by Deborah Ellis Parvana faces a lot of challenges because of the Taliban and their laws. The theme of family courage and hope are used throughout the entire novel and are demonstrated in different ways by Parvana, her family and her friends.…
Imagine the experience of living under the rule of a violent group of terrorists, with no freedom whatsoever. This is what it is like to Najmah in the book Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. In this realistic setting, Najmah, the main character, loses most of her family due to the brutality and imposition of the Taliban. The novel depicted the Taliban as dangerous and strict, which is interchangeable for what the Taliban is like in reality. Staples used the Taliban conflict to deepen the reader's understanding of the impact of conflict on people's lives.…
“The Song of Kahunsha” is a novel by Anosh Irani about a boy who runs away from an orphanage with a dream to find his father, however, once exposed to the real, devastating society we live in, Chamdi finds himself struggling to climb out of Bombay’s deepest chasm of violence, racism, and poverty. The author does a fantastic job of clearly displaying the development of the protagonist by providing a series of twists and turns in Chamdi’s life which consequently contributes to his maturity from a little boy from the orphanage, to a real man out in the real world.…
In Deborah Ellis’ novel Parvana, Parvana and her family struggle to live under the harsh rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Parvana becomes an increasingly aware adolescent as she attempts to meet challenges. Parvana demonstrates emerging maturity when she dresses up as a boy, acknowledges the realities of life in Afghanistan and begins to willingly collect water without being asked.…
In “The Breadwinner” Parvana’s rights are being violated. She has the right to go to school and get an education. She has the right to go to court to defend people. She has the right to freedom and many other rights, but nearly all of her rights are being violated by the Taliban. I wonder how Parvana deals with it? This essay will be about some of the rights that are violated in Afghanistan, the right for an education, the right to go to court and the right for freedom.…
In the novel Parvana by Deborah Ellis there were many characters who were affected by the war in Afghanistan and one of them is Parvana. Parvana had many experiences some of them were cruelty of war, cruelty of the Taliban, the discrimination against women and friendship.…
In everyday life in Afghanistan, people live in constant fear due to a group of terrorists. The novel, Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples, demonstrates the cruel truths of life in Afghanistan. The book follows two girls, Najmah and Nusrat as they are faced with tough challenges everyday that will alter their lives forever. The Taliban impact the everyday lives of people worldwide in an awfully negative way, and the book accurately proves this to be true by following Najmah and Nusrat.…
The book opens with a description in which women are in a difficult situation. Two women guard women that are not allowed to speak or they will be punished by the watchmen. The patrollers of the grounds are ironically known as Angels. For some strange women these people do not look at the people on the grounds. Moving forward, the main character Offred is presented in a new place and he is in a room that is not particularly nice place. Based upon the descriptions it seems very prison like. Later, there are descriptions of different characters of the book and what they wear including the Handmaids, the Marthas, and the Wives. There are even some social boundaries between the groups and restrictions on what some of the people in groups can do.…
Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan, is indeed a very long name for a book. However, Fariba Nawa does a fabulous job depicting the disturbing picture of present-day Afghanistan and taking the ( what are you trying to say? Reread the whole sentence)women’s role in it as the main role. Fariba(always use the whole name) Nawa is a journalist who was born in Herat, Afghanistan and by the age of nine she and her family escaped (Try: Migrated to the United States after the Soviet Invasion of 1979 where her family was forced to leave after an attack that hit too close for comfort) the Soviet war in their country after their lives were exposed to extreme danger. This was mainly when the mujahideen (a groups of loosely aligned Afghan positioners) attacked Nawa’s school, Lycee Mehri, (its seems irrelevant and out place) in July of 1982 killing dozens of students and almost killing her sister Faiza. Nawa recalls that day as one that she and her mother went to take their weekly bath at the public bathhouse, a few miles from their neighborhood, while Faiza went to school. That day, a woman told her mother that her husband had heard that the mujahideen planned to attack Lycee Mehri because girls were being taught communist propaganda there. (Make it more terrorizing, talk about the bombing and how she saw her friends decapitated) Nawa remembers that the scene that day in the streets made a little bit of sense. The streets were empty with few cars and horse wagons when they headed back home. Once home, they heard a big explosion and went out of the house and ran to the school looking for Faiza. At the school’s gate there was an ambulance overflowed with injured students but miraculously her sister was fine with no Injuries. In her book she mentions that the violence she witnessed at her school defined the path she had taken in her adult life. “War can become an addiction for its victims because it provides them meaning at the…
This story takes place in an unnamed coastal city in India during 1975-1984. This novel is told in third person and is about a chain of circumstances that tosses four very different people together into one small apartment. A college student, Maneck Kohlah, rents a room in the apartment of Dina Dalal, a widowed seamstress in her forties. Dina also has two additional boarders; Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash; tailors fleeing low-caste origins. They do not get along but as a series of unfortunate events take place, they continually become closer until the wall of caste, suspicion, age, and politeness has dissolved and friendships emerge unexpectedly.…
The book I have chosen to do this month is Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald. I have chosen this book because I think it describes some similar things, I have heard of and some things that happen in my country sometimes too. The genre of this book is realistic fiction. And realistic fiction means, it's not real but it could definitely happen to anyone. The book is basically about an Iranian-women named Tamila who has been basically stuck in Iran for the longest time and finally got to come to America for the first time. And she is so used to not having any freedom, America opens many doors for her. But only on one condition, she has to find a husband in two months, which is hard work.…
J Parvez:Parvez is the protagonist of the story "My son the fanatic" by Hanif Kureishi. He is a Pakistani immigrant and lives with his wife and his son Ali in Britain. He was born in Lahore, the son of Pakistani parents. Parvez is very open-minded and has assimilated into Western society. As a taxi-driver, drunkard, pork-eater and friend of prostitutes, he´s totally disinterested in the Koran or in any Islamic beliefs. His attitude to Islam is also affected by negative experiences as a child ("...all young boys had been taught the Koran and, to stop Parvez from falling asleep while studying, the maulvi had attached a piece of string to the ceiling and tied it to Parvez´s hair, so if his head fell forward, he would instantly jerk awake" P.192 L.13-16). In the past, Ali was Parvez´s best friend, and they talked about everything. So it's all the more tragic how their relationship breaks apart. After becoming anxious about his son, Parvez seeks Bettina's advice, because she is his main support person in the story. After Ali offends Bettina very harshly (and after many desperate attempts by Parvez to reach Ali), Parvez´s patience snaps. Parvez realizes that his son has become unreachable and so he hits him.…