Descriptive Essay On Sharisabz

One warm summer morning my sister, dad, and I were sitting and watching T.V. and my best friend’s dad called and invited us over for the weekend. He said

The few concrete houses had been built by families whose sons or fathers had gone south…” which made me feel like her village was a small cozy, beautiful place, but after the Taliban invaded it, its beauty had been destroyed.

Completely by different circumstances are the members of the middle generation shaped – Amir, Hassan and Assef. Their childhood covers the transitional part of Afghanistan’s 20-th century history. Of course, the boys are really different in nature, but Soviet occupation is what caused such different roads to be chosen by the three characters. And that huge change in their lives determined who they are going to grow into as adults.

This type of suffering also occurred in 1722 with the Afghan tribesmen and yet again during the late eighteenth century and lasted until 1925. The Qajars, a Turkic tribe that was established near the Caspian Sea, conquered Iran this time. The kings who ruled under the Qajar Empire also were mainly responsible for the country’s poverty and resistance to modernity. The only difference between the Qajars and the Arabs is that now the people of Iran were not going to sit back and let these kings give foreigner powers the right to their country. The Qajars had “lost their right to rule, their farr. Armed with Shiite principle that endows the ordinary citizen with inherent power to overthrow despotism…Iranians rebelled in a way their forefathers never had” (28).

Hosseini begins to show the loss of innocence and the effects of the conflict with the Soviet takeover. “The generation of Afghan

Afghanistan, a country of several ethnic backgrounds, is in constant struggle of standing united as a nation. The various beliefs, languages, social statuses, and ways of living have created tension among the ethnic groups (“Social Classes”). The Pashtuns and Hazaras are two particular ethnic groups that have clashed throughout history. The differences between the Pashtun and Hazara people created a major conflict with lasting effects on the way in which they live.

In 1979, the USSR took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and tried to gain control over the whole country and its people. The invasion was a failure, costing thousands of lives and having serious consequences.

After the joyful gathering, we all drove to our aunt’s home in a small town called Wood Dale. We would be residing in her two guest bedrooms for the time being. Soon, it was time to start living life again. When looking for work my father had faced prejudice, where he was looked down upon as less educated, because he could not speak the language as well as others. But life went on and he found a job as an engineer again. Later, he and my mom were naturalised in 2010 and we all became official citizens of the United States of

At first I had no idea why I hadn’t seen my dad in days and why I would have to take a long trip to Washington. After sometime my grandparents sat me down and informed me that my dad did something wrong and was going to jail. They also gave me the life-changing news that I was going to move in with them permanently and they were going to adopt me. After being adopted by my grandparents and taken from my father and home

The scenery as I now recall, looks as if it had came out of the beginning of The Grapes of Wrath. Civilization here felt in a way left behind compared back home. (Leave behind all wifi powered technology, because you aren't going to be getting a signal here.)

After a lot of planning, one early morning in late July myself, my dad and my two brothers Seth and Stefen piled into my

Amir’s journey begins in Kabul where he grows up with Hassan, his servant. In Kabul, life revolves around Amir’s father, Baba. “Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white” (Hosseini 15). The rich and powerful Baba is able to control nearly every aspect of his life during Amir’s youth. As a late teen, he moves to America as a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Baba and he descend from the top of the social hierarchy to the nearly bottom as their surroundings change. “Six days a week, Baba pulled twelve-hour shifts pumping gas, running the register, changing oil, and washing windshields” (Hosseini 130). They are poor and work extremely hard for everything they have. Finally, when Amir returns to Afghanistan in June 2001, he finds everything he used to know had changed. He is treated just as poorly as the rest of the Afghans. “I feel like a tourist in my own country” (Hosseini 231). He does not feel welcome and eventually leaves again for his “new” home, San

“In all his travels the Bishop had seen no country like this. From the flat red sea of sand rose great rock mesas... The sandy soil of the plain had a light sprinkling of junipers, and was splotched with masses of blooming rabbit brush,-- that oliver-coloured plant that grows in high waves like a tossing sea, at this season covered with a thatch of bloom, yellow as gorse, or orange like marigolds.” 94 Both women describe the land of desert with such vividness that one is not left with the idea of a barren, sandy soil but an environment that is rich with history as well as life. This life and history of the land are a part of the culture.

First, Amir’s relationship with his father, Baba, helped create Amir’s identity. Their intricate relationship often left Amir feeling worthless as if he could not live up to the standards of a Pashtun. This negatively impacted Amir growing up; his values constantly changed as he tried to form a close bond with his father. Baba raised Amir to believe that everyone in Afghanistan had a certain role to play in life, but they should all be treated with respect. Baba’s values made Amir think he had disappointed his father. The high expectations that Baba had for Amir showed that he cared about their reputation. Being the child Amir was, he translated Baba’s hardness as though his father were unhappy to have a child such as Amir. Amir recounts the emotion displayed on his father’s face after an afternoon together; he laments, “Mostly I will never forget Baba’s valiant efforts to conceal the disgusted

Arriving to my cousin house i seen alot of my family members even the ones that was from out of town. We greeted eachother and