Najmah Research Paper

(MIP-1) Najmah is at her home with all her parents when her father and her brother are taken away by the Taliban (SIP-A)Najmah has a internal depression where she feels down. She doesn’t feel any emotion towards anything.(STEWE-1) Her silence lasts for awhile (110)“It’s been more than two weeks since I have last spoken.” She finally begins to speak to Akhtar and Khalida after awhile when they are traveling through the mountains. (STEWE-2) It was a typical day for Najmah until the Taliban showed up and ruined everything. Her brother Nur and her father were taken by the Taliban and were forced to fight for them against their enemy. She has no say in what happens because she is a women. Women in Afghanistan do not have many rights like the men do. (SIP-B) Najmah is growing up and becoming a woman she does not have any childish fears. (STEWE-1) “I have forgotten my childish quarrels with Nur- I am no longer angry with him for scaring me about the leopard, and for saying I can’t carry water as far as he can.” (37) (STEWE-1) “I have forgotten my childish quarrels with Nur- I am no longer angry with him for scaring me about the leopard, and for saying I can’t carry water as far as he can.” (37). …show more content…
bombing her character changes for a couple of chapters. (SIP-A) She is in a state of shock. She has no emotion when Khalida cuts her hair and changes her into new clothes so she looks like a boy. It just happens to her really without her really noticing.(STEWE-1) “I do not resist-nor do I help- when she removes the remains of my tunic and skirt, which has been shredded by shards of flying rock in the bombing.” (84)(STEWE-2) “Khalida pushes my arms into a man’s tunic, she tugs a pair of trousers up over my hips, pulling the drawstring until it’s snug against my waist.” (84)(SIP-B) Najmah goes along with her new look. She is dressed like this because men in Afghanistan can travel on their own and are more safe, while women cannot they have a lot less rights than the men