Najmah

The film “Osama” is a powerful film, which focuses on the horrific life women in Afghanistan have to go through. The film provides an inside look of how terrible women and young girls are treated by the Taliban, the grueling living conditions and lack of food, and the training young boys are taught by the Taliban. The film showed a massive group of widows who are protesting in order to be allowed to work in order to provide their family with food. Instantly the Taliban hose the women down and begin shooting, creating a fear of being caught amongst the women. The grueling film focuses on a young girl who is forced to transition her look into a boy in order to provide food for her mother, grandmother, and herself. The girl then becomes recruited by the Taliban, along with the other young boys in the village. Horrified the young girl tries her best to act as a boy, but unfortunately she is discovered by the Taliban of being a girl. She then is condemned to death for this felony. In her case, she is given the punishment of marrying an old Muslim man. Furthermore, the young girl is forced to be locked up

If one peered through the life of two tales- fictional, and the authentic, hurdle-prone world, a world named reality, both filled with troubling conflicts, it would be easily deciphered that surprisingly, both fantasy and the world people live in today are not that different. In real life, and in the novel Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples, millions of people are being punished for doing daily things, for instance, laughing, eating ice cream, watching television, and a whole lot more. Life as it once was is being sought for by many. After living such a long life without wars, the Taliban created a strict set of laws that clearly weren 't consulted with any government officials.Therefore, it was difficult for many to adjust to, and it still is. In real life, and in the novel, the Taliban are depicted as people with the most devious souls--their goal in life is to incessantly punish innocents who don 't follow their rules. Staples used the Taliban and how they have completely degraded people 's lives in a solemn way to show the impact of conflict of the characters.

Imagine a world where people are getting killed, controlled, and even kicked out of your own home this is all because of the Taliban. The Taliban, a bad organization that kill people and are taking control of the country Afghanistan. They are very strict, and they have their own and very strict rules that people have to follow. Your family is getting killed and getting kicked out of their homes and have to leave their land, homes and even families. This is a situation in the non fiction/fiction novel, Under The Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. But, this is not just a situation in this Novel but, also in real life. The Taliban's cruelty in the book is similar to real life, the Taliban has a large impact on Najmah's character in the

(BS-1)Najmah’s father and brother were taken by the Taliban, in spite of losing them, she became very mature and she made a goal to find them instead of grieving about it.

Najmah’s brother, Nur, reveals Najmah’s childish character “‘I saw a leopard's pug marks in the dust here last night,’ Nur says...But I really am convinced a large animal with long, pointed teeth is waiting to pounce on me. I am terribly afraid of leopards, although I have never seen one in my life”(5, 6). In other words, this quote asserts that Najmah is gullible and becomes alarmed by things that she has never seen before. This testifies that Najmah was tremendously fearful of her misconceptions and therefore immature. In addition, when Najmah’s brother and father were abducted by the Taliban, Najmah’s thoughts portrayed her character in a time of conflict. According to an excerpt: “I began to feel hopeless. I can’t imagine surviving without Baba-jan and Nur to look after the animals and tend the fields”(37). This quote evinces that Najmah is oblivious and naive because she feels hopeless because of the absence of her father and brother. She habitually doesn’t have to take responsibility, ergo, she is unable to lead her family when in a conflict.

(SIP-A)Baba-Jan and Nur were taken by the Taliban to fight for them, Mada-Jan and Habib, Najmahs newborn baby brother were both bombed by the americans in their house.

(MIP-1) Najmah has lost most of her family at the Taliban and Americans hand, leaving Najmah with no family to be with. (SIP-A)Baba-Jan and Nur were taken by the Taliban to fight for them, Mada-Jan and Habib, Najmahs newborn baby brother

Najmah had experienced her own baby brother and mother die in front of her because Americans killed them, sending her into a total state of shock. Najmah then emerges from this event silent and emotionless, meaning American involvement changed the way she normally acted. This means that American involvement is causing mental issues with people in Afghanistan, and the author is using this conflict to create another inner conflict conflict of Najmah’s silence. (STEWE-2) Najmah cannot speak when, “They speak to me and try to make me feel welcome. But I feel as if my tongue has been locked in my mouth since the moment I saw my mother airing the quilts just before the

(TS) In ‘Under the Persimmon Tree’ the author uses real-life Taliban rules and enforcements on women and common people to create conflicts and set the plot for both characters.

Najmah doesn’t have enough hope to fight against the Taliban. (SIP-B) As Najmah starts to travel, she starts to feel more hopeful, and positive, since Akhtar and Khalida have dressed her as a boy, and she regains her faith and strength in the stars. This enables her to work extra hard to get to Peshawar, she watches carefully

(AGG) In Kabul, women were 60 percent of the teachers, 50 percent of the government workers, and 40 percent of the doctors before 1996, when the Taliban came into rule (Dass). (BS-1) The literary elements Staples’ forms in Under The Persimmon Tree accurately uses the Taliban’s mistreatment of women. (BS-2) As a result of Staples’ accurate use of these details, certain aspects of Najmah and Nusrat were revealed by the literary conflicts that are created.

Throughout Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the reader observes many injustices committed due to the presence of the Taliban and cultural conflict in Afghanistan. One of the most concerning issues in Afghanistan is the mistreatment and inequality that women face on a daily basis due to Taliban mandates. Women in Afghanistan are treated as inferior beings to men and are unable to stand up for themselves due the laws the Taliban enforces. Hosseini uses the wives of Amir and Hassan, Soraya and Farzana, to represent the injustices to which women in Afghanistan are subjected.

(SIP-A) Najmah has changed by avoiding being noticed as a girl by the taliban. (STEWE-1) “I take advantage of being dressed as a boy to wander in the makeshift bazaar that has sprung up at the edge of the tent village, with vendors of fruits and vegetables, used clothing, soap, mirrors,plastic basins, and paper (148).” She is now taking advantage of being a boy and wandering around and she is now stealing food for her survival. (STEWE-2) “But I am on my own now, and I decide to take my chances instead of waiting until it might be too late (154).” She is starting to become more responsible because she is on her own and she has to survive without having her family there to help her and support her. (SIP-B) Najmah choices became a successful because she made it to Peshawar safely so she can find her father and brother. (STEWE-1) “It’s difficult to believe I have made it safely to Peshawar! I have yet to learn where I might look for my father and brother, and I have no idea where i will find a safe place to sleep (165).” Najmah has gotten to Peshawar and she is looking to find somewhere to find shelter and food. She is glad nothing happened to herself, she made it safe to Peshawar and now she is going to find her brother and father. (STEWE-2) “I duck behind it and with surprising ease am able to pry loose one of the boards and slip inside without anyone

(SIP-A) Najmah now has nothing left for her in Golestan. Her house is gone, she has no guardians, there are no men related to her around except for her crazy uncle, which she wants nothing to do with. So she really has no other choice but to join Akhtar and Khalid on their journey to Peshawar Pakistan. (STEWE-1) “Baba-Jan says that he will go, but then Nur gets pushy and then the Taliban leader says, your son wants to fight we will show him how to fight. And then they take baba-Jan and Nur away.” (STEWE-2) “The door frame and chunks of mud plaster and dust scattered over the footprint of what used to be my home. My mother lies on the ground nearby with her legs splayed at odd angles to the rest of her. She reaches her hand toward me, and opens her mouth to speak, but instead blood comes out. By the time I reach her, she stares with glassy, dead eyes. Habib lies motionless a few feet behind her, face down in the dirt, his little arms flung out to his sides in the way he throws them wide when he lies naked on a cot swimming for joy in the fresh air.” (SIP-B) Now that Najmah has realized that she has nobody left, when she runs into Akhtar, she takes this as an opportunity to go to Peshawar and find her father and brother. That is why she goes on the adventure over the mountain, and to Peshawar Pakistan. (STEWE-1) “I don’t care whether the Taliban find me and kill me.” Najmah is very upset that she has nothing left, and that she is now nothing without her family. (STEWE-2) But they are far, far behind us and I realize that I will never see them again. As the stars disappear one by one, Akhtar leads us away from the path and down into a valley formed by a small stream that flows into a large river. (CS) sometimes we may not want to leave the people we love most behind, but there is more out there for the

The Taliban—a Muslim fundamentalist group--first took control on the Afghanistan government in 1996, and even after the US-led invasion in 2001, they have maintained a strong influence in rural regions. When they first became present, many Afghans believed they would bring light to the years of corruption introduced by the Russians, and for a while that was true. The Taliban brought stability to Afghanistan, reduced infighting between warlords, and cracked down on the corruption that had been present in the government for many years. However, as years past the presence of the fundamentalist group changed Afghanistan and its people for the worse, displacing many people, and many Hazara, women, and children were murdered. Before Taliban arrive