(AGG) Experiences develop character in both positive and negative ways. Najmah will experience both in the story and it will cause change in her. (BS-1) Najmah’s father and brother are taken by the Taliban. (BS-2) Najmah’s mother and newborn baby brother are killed in a bombing. (BS-3) Najmah meets Nusrat in Peshawar and Nur returns to where Najmah is. (TS) There are several different experiences throughout the book that contribute to the development of Najmah’s character.
(MIP-1) Najmah’s father and brother being taken by the Taliban is a major experience for her. (SIP-A) Before her father was taken, Najmah has all of her family and nothing really too big to worry about. (STEWE-1) At the beginning of this book, Najmah’s mother says to her, …show more content…
(SIP-A) Najmah’s mother and baby brother were killed by an airstrike and this leads to major character development. (STEWE-1) After the bombs have gone off, Najmah describes the scene as, “My mother lies on the ground nearby with her legs sprayed at odd angles to the rest of her. She reaches her hand towards me, and opens her lips to speak. Instead of words, blood pours from her mouth…Habib lies motionless”(Staples 67).This is the moment after the bombs have gone off, and Najmah first sees her dead mother and brother lying on the ground. (STEWE-2) While Najmah is sitting after the bombing and killing of her mother and brother, after she is thinking, she says “The next thing I am conscious of is being lifted in the arms of Bibi Usmani’s brother Akhtar”(Staples 83). Najmah is being rescued by Bibi Usmani’s brother, Akhtar. Akhtar’s wife Khalida also helps in the rescuing of Najmah as will be seen. (SIP-B) After Najmah is rescued, they take a journey over the mountains to the refugee camp at Torkhum, and they will experience new and mostly harsh conditions as they go. (STEWE-1) At the beginning and over the course of the journey to Torkhum, Najmah does not speak even once because she states, “I feel as if my tongue has been locked inside my mouth since the moment I saw my mother airing the quilts just before the bombs fell”(Staples 88). Najmah is not talking and will not talk to anyone over the course of this journey as she feels that she can’t. (STEWE-2) The food conditions for the group are very bad, Najmah says, “I try to imagine where he will find food in these rocky hills”(Staples 106-107). This is a change in Najmah’s character because she says earlier in the book how her family's farm has enough food for the whole family and no one ever doesn’t have enough, but now, the food is scarce and hard to come by. (STEWE-3) Those on the journey become really desperate along
(MIP-1) Najmah’s father and brother being taken by the Taliban is a major experience for her. (SIP-A) Before her father was taken, Najmah has all of her family and nothing really too big to worry about. (STEWE-1) At the beginning of this book, Najmah’s mother says to her, …show more content…
(SIP-A) Najmah’s mother and baby brother were killed by an airstrike and this leads to major character development. (STEWE-1) After the bombs have gone off, Najmah describes the scene as, “My mother lies on the ground nearby with her legs sprayed at odd angles to the rest of her. She reaches her hand towards me, and opens her lips to speak. Instead of words, blood pours from her mouth…Habib lies motionless”(Staples 67).This is the moment after the bombs have gone off, and Najmah first sees her dead mother and brother lying on the ground. (STEWE-2) While Najmah is sitting after the bombing and killing of her mother and brother, after she is thinking, she says “The next thing I am conscious of is being lifted in the arms of Bibi Usmani’s brother Akhtar”(Staples 83). Najmah is being rescued by Bibi Usmani’s brother, Akhtar. Akhtar’s wife Khalida also helps in the rescuing of Najmah as will be seen. (SIP-B) After Najmah is rescued, they take a journey over the mountains to the refugee camp at Torkhum, and they will experience new and mostly harsh conditions as they go. (STEWE-1) At the beginning and over the course of the journey to Torkhum, Najmah does not speak even once because she states, “I feel as if my tongue has been locked inside my mouth since the moment I saw my mother airing the quilts just before the bombs fell”(Staples 88). Najmah is not talking and will not talk to anyone over the course of this journey as she feels that she can’t. (STEWE-2) The food conditions for the group are very bad, Najmah says, “I try to imagine where he will find food in these rocky hills”(Staples 106-107). This is a change in Najmah’s character because she says earlier in the book how her family's farm has enough food for the whole family and no one ever doesn’t have enough, but now, the food is scarce and hard to come by. (STEWE-3) Those on the journey become really desperate along