Farah Ahmedi's The Other Side Of The Sky

the Other Side of the Sky is a story written by Farah Ahmedi. This book is based on the true story of Farah, a girl who was born in Afghanistan during a time of war. At seven years old, In one morning Worried that she was late for school she decided to take a shortcut through a field, saving her two or three minutes but little did Farah know that decision would turn out to be the worst of her life. Sadly, Farah stepped on a land mine! Quickly a crowd gathered around her but no one seemed to know what to do until a neighbor came along, hailed a taxi and put Farah onto the back seat and delivered her to the hospital. Farah was in so much pain that every time they had to move her legs or change bandages, she would scream. The pain was excruciating. …show more content…
The dilapidated children’s hospital in Kabul was not equipped to treat her, so a humanitarian organization had her airlifted to Germany—which spared her life. She spent almost two years in Germany recovering from her injuries. One leg was removed below the knee; the other leg fused back together so that she is unable to bend it. German was like heaven for Farah. After two years, Farah spends it in German she had forgotten what it was like to live in a war zone. By then, Farah had already embraced the German values of modernity and women’s rights. Her palate for Afghan food and customs had already been modified during those formidable years in Germany (age 7-9) and she had even forgotten some of her native language of Farsi. Farah was feeling well and she was getting ready to go back to her family, she described Germany and the two years in the hospital that she had been in; (Living at that hostel, I got a feel for what it would be like to really live in this country, not as a patient, but as a citizen, a member of this society, walking about the city, going to school, eventually going to