The Other Side Of The Sky: Farah's Beliefs

Farah Ahmedi’s beliefs
Not everyone has a clear destination or path to follow in life. Farah Ahmedi is an individual who decides her own destination, and the path that will lead her there is heavily established based on her principles and beliefs. Farah Ahmedi’s beliefs come from diverse origins. For the vast duration of the book, Farah struggles to maintain her beliefs and principles. However, her beliefs ultimately affect copious decisions as her life progresses in The Other Side of the Sky.
To begin with, each of Farah Ahmedi’s beliefs have their own origin and importance to her. Farah was born into a Muslim family, and thus was raised to learn and worship Allah, their god. Farah’s Family was noticeably modern in their Muslim practices, and did not uphold traditional beliefs such as forcing all women to wearing a chadari wherever they might travel. Next, Farah believes that America will be like Germany in respect that it would be a first world country. She gained this ideology during her hospitalized visit to Germany where she learned how other countries were preforming state-of-the-art medicine practices such as …show more content…
Farah struggles with her belief in the Muslim religion when most of her family is killed from a rocket hitting her house. She struggles to believe that Allah would allow this to happen as her family has done nothing wrong. Next, her belief that America would be like Germany is put to the test when there are rumors from other refugees that mothers are made into soap in America. This thought of thought of doubt is reinforced when she arrives in America, and believes that she and her mother are now slaves, because they were going to live with an American family for two weeks. Her belief that her leg would not limit her throughout life was changed, when the director of the fashion show said that if anybody couldn’t walk like a model, then they would ruin the show for everyone