Summer Homework Farah Ahmedi wasn’t even 13 when she had to leave the country she was born in, Afghanistan, because the Taliban took over and it wasn't safe for her and her mother, Ahmedi’s only living family that she knows of. A lot of people haven’t even thought about living a life like that; truthfully, they are also lucky because they don’t have to go through that Ahmedi has, especially with coping with life after and the differences. Despite all the obvious diversity between her birth country and life to ours, there are similarities, in Culture, struggles, and life. I would bet that it would be nice for her that there are cultural similarities from her life before the Taliban. First likeness is that everyone goes to school; It says in
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For clarification, when Ahmedi was young, she left the only place she known with her mother to some place she has only heard rumors about, and when I was younger I moved as well. I moved across The United States of America from Northern Virginia to the coast of California, and she moved from Afghan to, eventually, Quetta Pakistan. It was hard for us both, but it was still harder for the Author. In attion, something happier that we share is or love for School and education. In the book, it said that she told a lady in Pakistan on page 148 “I want to go to America so I can get an education and make something of my life…” and earlier she said that it was wonderful to be going to school in Afghanistan, and how happy she was about that. I feel similar to Farah, I want get valuable schooling and follow one of my dreams. In addition, between the two, I know a few people, including myself, how have a stay at home mom and a semi successful father. The father made a lot of money to spend for him and his intermediate family, in fact, fight before her father died, he gave his sons a lot of money to spend on fabric for Farah. A similar situation for my family, is that I can easlly ask my dad for 100 dollars to spend on Cosplay. It only goes to show, that yes, both fathers make more money than the average working
For clarification, when Ahmedi was young, she left the only place she known with her mother to some place she has only heard rumors about, and when I was younger I moved as well. I moved across The United States of America from Northern Virginia to the coast of California, and she moved from Afghan to, eventually, Quetta Pakistan. It was hard for us both, but it was still harder for the Author. In attion, something happier that we share is or love for School and education. In the book, it said that she told a lady in Pakistan on page 148 “I want to go to America so I can get an education and make something of my life…” and earlier she said that it was wonderful to be going to school in Afghanistan, and how happy she was about that. I feel similar to Farah, I want get valuable schooling and follow one of my dreams. In addition, between the two, I know a few people, including myself, how have a stay at home mom and a semi successful father. The father made a lot of money to spend for him and his intermediate family, in fact, fight before her father died, he gave his sons a lot of money to spend on fabric for Farah. A similar situation for my family, is that I can easlly ask my dad for 100 dollars to spend on Cosplay. It only goes to show, that yes, both fathers make more money than the average working