Analysis Of The Film 'Osama'

Amira Arzu, an Afghan teenager, was only 15 years old when she was forced into an arranged marriage. She was kind hearted, intelligent, elated, and humorous until one day this was all taken away. December 15th, 2016 she was on her way to school in Afghanistan not knowing that her parents were driving her to a Mosque, the Shrine of Ali, to get married to her future husband, Ahmed Akmal. A few days later she found herself on the street Taimani in Kabul, Afghanistan. Amira ran past workers ordering from street carts, women with their children, men in trucks honking at one another, and many looked at her uncertainty as she was running through the streets of Kabul. At the time, she was wearing a blue floral hijab, jeans, and a dress as in Afghanistan you cannot wear a dress without covering your legs. Many deduced that she was without her husband on the streets of Kabul, which is not normally the case, but Amira was different from the other wives and arduously wanting to figure out an escape.

In the beginning of the book, during the late 50’s and 60’s, the richer women of Afghanistan are fairly equal to the men. The poorer/religious women are rarely in a position of power and must obey their husbands or male relatives. However they have the freedom to go where they like without a male escort. One of the characters, Mariam, is walking through a rich neighborhood, noticing the women with their makeup on and nothing on their heads. This is a very public society. These women can smoke and have office jobs. Mariam compares them with herself, who has no education, has had no power over her life, and must wear a burqa everytime she goes outside. Mariam is

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, the two protagonists, Mariam and Laila, fight against those who hold power in their lives. In the setting of the book, Afghanistan, women had essentially no rights starting in 1994. This was the year that the Taliban took control of the country after the Soviet Union had left. The Taliban installed a new set of laws which stripped women of their liberties, in the story Mariam and Laila are two of the many women these new rules affected. Mariam and Laila struggle against the structure of their society — which is embodied by their husband Rasheed — and fight against it by continuously trying to break free from Rasheed’s control; and it is this struggle which demonstrates the hardships women face in Afghanistan.

The Taliban creates separate facilities for the men and women and does not attempt to hide the fact that working conditions are far worse for the women. During the initial arrival of the Taliban in Kabul, Mariam, Laila, and Rasheed experience a level of hopefulness. They have all heard that the Taliban brings peace to the territories they conquer, and Kabul is ready for relief after years of war. Mariam and Laila’s hope quickly disappears when they learn their lives will have more restrictions now than ever before. According to the Taliban rule, women are no longer allowed in public without a male relative, and they must always wear burqas when traveling.

During the reign of the Taliban, women were subjected to silence while injustice flared through the Middle East. Forced to stay submissive to their superiors, women had no rights nor freedom to surpass society’s upbringings. The main intention of the three novels eliminates the withholdings of education from certain groups. Without these fundamental regulations in women’s favor, the value of peace is threatened.

The historical perception that was going on in this film took account the years before, it would be a big leap to assume that they released this film just on the 2012 historical events. Going back a year before the film was released in 2011, big things did happen that put some relief on America. Back in May 2011 the assassination of Osama bin Laden occurred. “ A bold cross-border raid at night by navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, who had been living comfortably in the shadow of Pakistan’s premier military academy.” (Oliver et al., 2014) Relation of how they disposed of his body, was like one of the killings of one of the families in a way that they died. “ In euphoria the raid created in the U.S., celebrating the skill and power of the SEALs

Alexis L. Guerra Professor Rosenberg English 104 31 October 2017 The Afghan Women of the Media The media has placed specific image into the heads of many of what it means to be an Afghan woman, oppressed and silent beneath a burqa. The media in Afghanistan and the United States has disfigured the representation of Afghan women.

The Taliban’s brutality is completely unimaginable. When the Taliban first arrived, a woman was beaten for not wearing a full chadri, though she wore modest clothing and a large headscarf. The Taliban soldiers showed no sympathy for this woman and beat her regardless of her pleas. In itself, this scene shows the Taliban’s twisted mindset: it is wrong for a woman to lack complete covering, but to beat this woman is moral and acceptable. The officials wanted her to fear breaking their rules and show that there were no exceptions; Afghans must follow the Taliban's regulations or be severely punished.

In this novel the author, Hosseini, uses a powerful bond between the two main character to give a reader a deeper understanding about the way women are viewed and treated in Afghanistan. These two main characters are used to represent the different perspectives from which women in are viewed. The first character we meet is Mariam, a woman from an unloving and poor past. She portrays the old ideas of abuse and mistreatment towards women. Conversely, the other main character Laila, a young woman who came from a more modern and loving family, is used to represent progress towards the equal treatment and education of women. These two women obviously come from different backgrounds but are brought together through

Through this novel, the author portrays the raw reality of hardship that has been, and continues to be endured by the individuals of Afghanistan, and how the women are more violated. With poverty and abuse doing their respective rounds in the warzone, life in general has become one with grief and

Women's rights, although they may vary depending on the culture, have been a pressing topic in widespread recent news. Each community has its own culture, which consist of their individual beliefs and traditions that impact the everyday lives of the individuals. More specifically, parents believe marriage, careers, and education are extremely important parts of their culture. In Afghanistan, all of these areas have been oppressive to women in some way or another. This type of oppression of women is evident in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner.

Before the Taliban, life was adequately normal for Afghan women. When the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan women’s rights were disrespected and the Afghan women were disregarded. Once the Taliban fled, the women of Afghanistan started to regain their rights and are acknowledged for their power today. The Taliban abused women physically and mentally by whipping them, hosting executions, and brutalizing their rights; today about 67% of girls living in Afghanistan still do not go to

This film response will be discussing the award-winning documentary titled Being Osama, produced in 2004 by Tim Schwab and Mahmoud Kaabour. This movie is about exploring intimately the lives of six Arab men that are very different from one another ; in their personalities, their background and their interests. Their connection is that they share the same first name and their experiences as Arabs living in Canada in the post 9/11

In a male dominated society, the women of Afghanistan face many pressures and limits that are taught and ingrained in them at a very young age. Women and girls are seen as less than men and boys. They are viewed as being weak and unimportant. They are often pulled out of school and shunned to the house during their middle school years. Society sees no reason to educate girls when the whole point of girls is to serve as wives to their husbands and mothers to sons. They are taught that their entire worth depends on how happy they make their husband. As depicted by Jenny Norberg in The Underground Girls of Kabul, Afghanistan is a horrible place to be a woman. The pressure to birth sons, uphold a perfect reputation, and the economic disadvantages women face often force them to become men to have basic human respect and survival.

One scene in the movie that touched on this hardship was when Osama’s mother broke down into tears over the death of her husband and her brother (Barmak, 2003). Her mother said that if her husband or her brother were alive they could help provide for the family or is she had a son instead of a daughter (Barmak, 2003). This scene really illustrates the distance between how men and women are treated. The family comes up with the idea for Osama to pose as a boy in order to work and provide for the family. They cut her hair and dress her in her father’s clothes in order to conceal her (Barmak, 2003). Osama gets a job at a shop where the owner is made aware of the situation and with some hesitation eventually agrees. Each day Osama goes to work she is terrified of being found out because of the watchful eye of the Taliban. One day while working Osama and the other “boys” are taken from their homes and places of work to be trained as soldiers for the Taliban (Osama, 2003). During her time under watchful eye Osama’s true gender is found out and she is imprisoned. At the end of her term of imprisonment Osama was brought before a judge and the people of the town for her punishment. The judge forgave Osama but part of her punishment was for her to be married off to a man significantly older than her (Osama,