Character Analysis Of Farah Ahmedi From 'The Other Side Of The Sky'

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Farah Ahmedi was trying to get herself and her mother across the border to Pakistan and a better life. Annie Johnson was trying to make money to support her family. Magnus Chase was trying to ensure that his friends had time to live their lives. All three were very different from each other, but all of them shared the common goal of trying to ensure that they, and those close to them, could live in happiness.

Farah Ahmedi had been seriously injured as a child and had to get a prosthetic leg. But when the time came to escape to Pakistan, she had no trouble climbing a mountain. She scaled the mountain like a goat. As Farah states in The Other Side of the Sky, “Perhaps my mother’s problems distracted me from my own. [...] Perhaps desperation

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