Farah's 'The Other Side Of The Sky'

What drives you to undertake a mission? Better yet how does a mission make you feel? Although undertaking a mission would result in never losing hope, responsibility, and working hard. With this in mind believing you could do it and accomplishing a goal is very important. On the event that this relates to my thesis statement because this is a result of never losing hope. With the intention about this also being related to my thesis statement because this proves responsibility accomplishing a mission and completing it. Seeing that also working hard could be undertaking a mission and make you feel amazing. Sooner or later many people think that undertaking a mission is very complicated and they don’t think they could accomplish

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a beautiful tale of two women in Afghanistan during the Taliban uprising. They grow up on complete opposite sides of Afghan culture. The main character, Mariam, grows up in a more traditional way caused by her forced marriage to Rasheed. Laila on the other hand, grows up with a supportive father who encourages gender equality and education. There are many cultural differences such as, women’s rights, public executions, and the Taliban. The two main characters, Mariam and Laila, develop greatly throughout the novel. They push each other to be better and to stand up for equality. This plays into the themes of the novel. Women’s strength and loyalty are the two most important themes. They

In the novel The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi, Farah is in second grade when she steps on a landmine, and must be taken to Germany for medical treatment. Nearly 2 years later, at age 9 she returns home, with one prosthetic leg, and her other with permanent damage. Not too long after she returns home, her house is bombed leaving a majority of her family dead. Alone and scared, Farah and her mother try to find a way to America for a better and safer life. Months later, they are finally able to enter America legally and start over. Once they arrive, they begin to realize they are both scared to be in a new place that is so different from their homeland. Both Farah and her mother struggle to fit into this new world, as time goes, while

In Ismael Beah’s A Long Way Gone, War, Survival and Harsh conditions show that all people are capable of evil. This theme is often shown throughout the story and proven through Ishmael’s actions and the horrific cruelty of rebel soldiers who were only children. Being only 12 Ishmael and his friends were stuck searching abandoned villages for food after spending many nights sleeping in the wilderness. Eventually the only way they could survive was stealing food and so they did. Beah explains and tries to justify his methods of survival when he wrote “That night we were so hungry that we stole people’s food while they slept. It was the only way to get through the night.” (29) This quote portrays that how no matter who you

Throughout world history women have been treated abysmally. Societies with male-dominance have abused and used women and continue to do so today. Women have been made vulnerable to a man due to the spread of cultural values and beliefs in society that condemn them from power. In Khaled Hosseini's novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, the two main characters Mariam and Laila develop an unconditional bond in which they become each others protectors. The immense inner strength of women from adversity has been exemplified through the growth of Mariam and Laila's contrasting relationship, the pain they endure from Rasheed which strengthens their bond and the courage within them that ultimately resolves their conflict.

Farah Ahmedi tried to escape war torn Afghanistan. For example, in “The Other Side of The Sky” when Ahmedi and her mother were at the Pakistan Afghanistan border “If we got stuck here what would we going to do, where were we going to stay” (Ahmedi 1). Ahmedi wanted to escape very badly because there was no other option for her and her mother. In addition, “Perhaps desperation gave me energy and made me forget the rigor of the climb” (Ahmedi 12). Ahmedi had a prosthetic leg and wanted to escape so badly, that she pushed through

Martin jumped. He opened his mouth to talk, to yell, to shout or even to squeak out a sound, however, nothing turned out. He was so scared, so petrified that he couldn't talk, and he was grasping his crutches so firmly that his knuckles turned white. He was trembling and his knees would have been knocking if he had his fractured leg on the floor in the little room. He flicked his eyes up to the roof once again. "That entryway is my only way out of this! I need to attempt to reach it, yet she's standing directly under it. If only I hadn't fractured my leg "Martin thought. At the thought of his leg, , it began to hurt with a fiery and throbbing

Khaled Hosseini presents the struggle Afghan women go through every day by discussing honour, marriage and the place of women in society in Afghanistan.

In Egypt, the government looks at your grades, and place you into a college based on them. That is, if you make it that far. “The education system works like a filtering system, weeding people out at the end of each schooling level, elementary, junior high, and so on,” Nazih explained. When he got here, Nazih got his Ph.D. in nuclear physics, and was found “the freedom to do whatever you want, you can learn about anything that you want to, and it is all up to you, the government is not dictating your every move.” He worked for Boeing as an engineer in product development, looking at engineering research, and helping with important defense projects. If he had stayed in Egypt he would have been working for an insurance company instead of this. Even now that he’s retired, I could still see the happiness in Nazih’s eyes at the thought of the freedom, opportunities, and education here that he didn’t have in Egypt. “Here you feel useful, the work you’re doing is good for your country, good for you, but back at home you felt practically useless. Every time you wanted to go somewhere, the government was there, pushing you up and down, right and left.” When I look at Nazih, and see his determination to succeed and his commitment to education, I finally understand why he enjoys it so much when we talk about what I’m learning in school, from the

Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns tells a tale of the life of an Afghani women, Mariam, who was enjoying her bus ride of life until it made a turn in the wrong direction. It was all downhill from there. Mariam’s mother, Nana, and her father, Jalil, were aboard her bus of life. Mariam lived with her resentful and stubborn mother. Jalil visited his illegitimate child, Mariam, once a week. She really wanted to live with her father and his family in Herat. When Jalil did not arrive to accompany Mariam to see Pinocchio for her birthday, she want to Herat despite her mothers wishes not to. Jalil never let her inside. When Mariam and the chauffeur return the next morning, she finds out that Nana has exited her bus. Mariam’s mother committed suicide. Mariam detours and is taken to live with Jalil at his home in Herat.

Have you ever gotten motivated to do something? Write a book? Or maybe even just go skydiving? Or maybe even to just prove a point? These people did a little more than that. I’m going to tell you the great things these three people did. From as simple as moving. To getting chased. First off we have Walt from the story King of Mazy May.

Afghanistan is a country that is known for its poverty, human rights violations and violence. Being a woman in Afghanistan is extremely challenging as they face a lot of violence, abuse and this is present in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Laila and Mariam are two women who fall victim to physical, sexual and emotional abuse during the course of the novel. This abuse is suffered at the hand of Rasheed their husband.

On May 22, 2007, Khaled Hosseini released the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns to the public. This fiction novel took place in Afghanistan from the 1960s to the 2000s and focused on the struggles that citizens, mainly women, and children, faced during this time. While reading A Thousand Splendid Suns you can most likely relate to at least one of the struggles that the main characters, Mariam and Laila, experience. Being able to relate to the characters and pieces of their lives gives you an overall positive impression of the book. So what was the purpose of this book? Hosseini wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns to help bring awareness to the Afghanistan refugee crisis. This book gives you an in-depth look at the suffering in Afghanistan and how

Books stacked on shelves like a game of Jenga, essays and poems scattered throughout the unfilled crevices. These are prosaic, mundane sights for a student. Some of those books will be forgotten, destined to acquire an impressive collection of dust on some nondescript mantlepiece; those are not the novels that matter, regardless of their place in history. The novels that truly matter are the stories that change one’s perception of the world around them. In the past twelve months I have had the pleasure, nay the honour, of reading so many of those metamorphic pieces of literature.

The first year, the time to prove myself had arrived. Classes, rooms, teachers, and some students were unfamiliar. Eventually, minutes melted into hours, hours to days, and days to weeks. It didn’t take long before my schedule was routine, something of second nature. Humor and happiness were found in the form of my advisory family, where school was transformed into something more than going through the same motions of day to day activity. By the closing point of sixth grade, I was having a hard time letting go of what I’d adapted to. “What’s wrong?” my dad asked when I was getting into the car after being picked up early on the last day. I explained how distressed I was that my first year of middle school exceeded my expectations, and that it had to come to an end. Although his outlook viewed my reason for sorrow as trivial, I didn’t.