Kabul Beauty School Book Report

Kabul Beauty School by Debbie Rodriguez, an author, humanitarian, and licensed cosmetologist, is 270 pages-long and takes place in early 2000’s Afghanistan where Rodriguez joined the Kabul Beauty School. Debbie Rodriguez left her mother, children, and abusive husband behind in the United States to move to Afghanistan and help the Afghan people after the fall of the Taliban. Debbie Rodriguez first arrived in Afghanistan with a group of Christians from an organization that made the journey over to help the injured, famished, and traumatized people of the surrounding cities. Since Rodriguez was not a doctor, nurse, or had much of an understanding of helping others in need of medical attention, she was kept as a counselor for families and other victims of trauma during those rough times. Kabul Beauty School is a collection of Debbie Rodriguez’s experiences and life in the middle east. Kabul Beauty School’s purpose is to inform readers of the tradition and lifestyle of Afghanistan and how the Taliban has affected the culture and people forever. Debbie Rodriguez shares many of her own terrifying …show more content…
There are many things that differ these two parts of the world: women marrying for love (U.S.), women being married off by trade (Afghanistan). The two cultures do share, in some cases, the same value of marriage into higher social status, wealth, or for reasons related to family tradition. There are also high standards of beauty for women in both settings. Though women in the middle east are to cover-up and to not be seen in public without a man with them, the women take time to do their makeup, they go to the salon to have services done; just as women in the United States do, there are beauty standards that are set by society in order to be socially accepted and, in some situations, for