Character Analysis: Under The Persimmon Tree

(AGG) Throughout history people have been caught in the middle of conflict, like when you lived in a Roman city that was being attacked, you were most likely going to be killed.(BS-1) In the book Under the Persimmon tree, the characters are caught in the middle of the Taliban against the Americans and come out of the war physically affected.(BS-2) Similarly, through the same contention, the people who were impacted by the war also has emotional scars that they lived with,(BS-3) Even though through the struggle of living in a war torn part of the war, good things did come out in the end for the characters.(TS) It is certain that during wars innocent people are caught in the middle and get physically as well as emotionally harmed, but the way they’re affect is not always in a bad way, this is shown through the characters of the Under the Persimmon Tree.

(MIP-1) During the conflict between the …show more content…
(SIP-A) The characters of the novel are caught in the middle of the on going fighting between the Taliban and America, and they are impacted in a physical way. (STEWE-1) Najmah’s village is bombed, leaving mother and Habib lifeless, “I turn Habib over. He is lifeless, his small body heavy and still. His eyes closed and dust covers every inch of him. My mother kept him clean, but now mud cakes in the saliva drying around his mouth” (82). Here a wrong girl has just watched her half of her family get blown up by the American bombs, and now sees them laying on the ground dead, and she is just in shock. (STEWE-2) Najmah’s Baba-Jan and Nur was taken by the Taliban to fight, being just innocent people where Baba-Jan lost his life, "'Baba-Jan is dead,' he says softly, his voice cracking (253). Najmah was given a sliver of hope after her brother came home after being taken, but then the news