Analysis Of Under The Persimmon Tree

In both the novel Inside out and back Again and the universal refugee experience when a refugee flees their home their life is turned inside out and becomes more difficult. Refugee life becomes more and more difficult all because of war, their religion, and they could barely get accesses to food, water, and shelter. This is shown in the novel Inside out

The loss of somebody or someone can lead to PTSD, which can later lead to other effects, and it is said that up to 20% of all adults in America who have experienced some type of loss develops PTSD. (BS-1) Towards the beginning of the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, there is a character named Najmah who loses the ability to speak and loses control of her life, as a result of Mada-jan and Habib’s loss. (BS-2) As an effect of Baba-jan and Nur missing from her life, Najmah changes her mindset and the decisions she makes from then on. (BS-3) Najmah’s relationships with others and voice is altered, this happens once she meets Nusrat and she adjusts due to her losses. (TS) Throughout the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, we see a character named

The refugees are highly impacted when they are sent to a refugee camp, refugees such as Farah.

(AGG)Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “only in the darkness can you see the stars.” with this, Nusrat relates because the stars shined brighter in the darkness of Faiz’s death. (BS-1)In the book, Under The Persimmon Tree, Nusrats’ loved ones are related to the stars in her mind because she has a basic connection with the stars. (BS-2) Additionally, when Nusrat realizes Faiz is dead, the author uses stars to symbolize her loss of faith. (BS-3)Similarly, the author uses Nusrat’s connection to the stars to symbolize her loss of faith when she accepts Faiz is dead. (TS)Furthermore, at critical moments in Nusrat’s life, the author uses Nusrats’ connection with the stars to highlight how she loses faith.

From the novels “Under the Persimmon Tree” by Suzanne Fisher Staples, “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai and “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, the refugee child have to deal with traumatizing events occurring during their journey. First, Najmah is a teenager living in Kunduz, Afghanistan who had to flee to Peshawar, Pakistan to find her brother and father, who have been taken by the Taliban, Salva is an 11 year old boy who had to flee from his village in South Sudan who has set out to find his family and Ha, a ten year old girl who had to flee her home because the Communist will take over Saigon. Secondly, all of the refugees have to flee their homes because of their country being at war; the Taliban, the Sudanese Civil war

(AGG) The loss of somebody or someone can lead to PTSD, which can later lead to other effects, and it is said that up to 20% of all adults in America who have experienced some type of loss develops PTSD (“PTSD Statistics”). (BS-1) Towards the beginning of the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, there is a character named Najmah who loses the ability to speak and loses control of her life, as a result of Mada-jan and Habib’s loss. (BS-2) As an effect of Baba-jan and Nur missing from her life, Najmah changes her mindset and the decisions she makes from then on. (BS-3) Najmah’s relationships with others and voice is altered, this happens once she meets Nusrat and she adjusts due to her losses. (TS) Throughout the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, we see a character named Najmah who is ultimately shaped through the people who are missing in her life.

(AGG) Bombs, troops, and supplies have been sent to Afghanistan to stop the leading terrorist group in that region, the Taliban, and the author of Under the Persimmon Tree has experienced this first hand and describes how it affects people within the book. (BS-1) People’s emotions, actions, and safety all around the world have been changed and affected around the world, this is used to negatively affect the people around Najmah and Nusrat. (BS-2) After experiencing American Involvement, Najmah develops internal conflicts that change her, the author creates this based on how people face loss because of American Involvement. (BS-3) Nusrat has faced loss from American involvement like other people around the world, and this helped her solve

(AGG) Despite all of its faults, war is what first forced humans to band together, blossoming the flower of civilization out of a god-forsaken battlefield. (BS-1) Everybody loses something in war, whether it be their family member, or their life. (BS-2) War also kills in a way sometimes unseen, contorting the minds of the apparent “survivors.” (BS-3)

The Taliban is a very dangerous group of extremist that rule Afghanistan and apply very strict rules. The book Under the Persimmon Tree has showed the extreme rules of the Taliban. Under the Persimmon Tree is about a girl that lives in Afghanistan and tries to find her family after being taken by the Taliban, while finding her family her parents both die along with her little brother and finds that her twin brother is her only part of her family that's left. (thesis statement) The Taliban are an atrocious group in the book.

(AGG) People change for many reasons, and the loss of a loved is one of the biggest reasons why a person would change. (BS-1) In the book Under The Persimmon Tree, Najmah changes because of the loss of her father and brother when they are taken by the Taliban. (BS-2) She also changes more while she travels through the mountains with Akthar and Khalida because her mother and baby brother passed away. (BS-3) These losses motivate Najmah to go look for her father and brother in Peshawar. She eventually meets Nusrat who encourages her to have a change in mindset to live her life differently. (TS) These losses that Najmah has encountered in her life made her a stronger person.

Refugees struggle to choose the decision of whether or not to flee their homes, facing multiple challenges, and trying to find a home in another place such as the U.S. where things are different from what they’re used to, making them feel inside out. First of all, a refugee from Vietnam named Ha feels inside out when trying to find home in the United States, ”To make it worse, the cowboy explains horses here go neigh, neigh, neigh, not hee, hee, hee. No they don’t. Where am I?” (Lai 134). Ha has felt stranded in an unknown place, because the ways things were done in Alabama are very different than what she was used to in Vietnam. Next, Arthur Brice portrays how a refugee from Bosnia named Amela feels inside out when she reads a letter from

(MIP-1)In the book Under the Persimmon Tree, the daily life of refugees shows that many refugees struggle with having food and finding jobs.(SIP-A) Many refugees rely on food

The different journeys being taken by these individuals and families all beg the question over what obligations society has towards these people. While many would agree that action has to be taken in order to ensure the safety of these individuals and help them as much as possible. This is demonstrated through Sadiq’s journey because when he stopped at a charity center they provided clothes for his trip to Finland and also breakfast. The help being offered by this place gives the refugees not only a place to stay for the night and guarantees breakfast, but also gives them hope to continue on as they approach their final destination. The assistance offered by organizations like these demonstrates that these refugees are humans who are in need of necessary supplies for their survival, and that society is obligated to fulfill these individuals needs to secure their journey and secure their well-being.

The challenges the refugees had to face included the complications of their pasts, and how wars in their home countries altered their lives. From the wars, members of families were scattered not only through America, but through the world from displacement and resettlement. Other family members were shot or killed, sometimes in front of the refugees. “...Luma expressed frustration that a young Liberian player seemed to suddenly zone out during play. Another Liberian who knew the boy told her she didn’t understand: the boy was forced by soldiers to shoot a close friend,” (John 58). In some cases, people were thrown into jail for no reason, or without proof of wrongdoing. Paula Belegarmire’s husband was fallaciously taken from his home and jailed

Refugees are people who are forced to leave their home country due to disastrous circumstances. In most cases, this major event is war. These refugees come from all different regions of the Earth. Despite their different origins, these refugees often share similar experiences. In the novel, Inside Out & Back Again, by Thanhha Lai, along with the articles, “Vietnamese Boat People” by C.N. Trueman, “The Future of Syria” by Natalie Dorfman and “Children of War” written by Arthur Brice, the refugees are depicted as having their lives turned “inside out” and “back again”. The fictional character Ha is representative of real life refugees because she too has escaped her home country by boat, been separated from a family member and has had to