The author of The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Narja Mazari escaped from the Taliban to Australia to only be treated like a prisoner in a detention centre in Woomera. The camp of Woomera is in the southern states of Australia. Mazari then met with Robert Hillman who helped him write up Mazari’s autobiography. The reader can tell that the author is in a “prison-like” centre by the way he describes the setting. The use of language informs the reader about the author about Mazari’s attitudes and values, for example the word “heartsick” is repeated two times indicates that the author is homesick. The author also use emotive language to describe what he feels such as the author utilized the work “heartsick” which gives the sense that Mazari was homesick
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The author’s emotion in this passage is loneliness, homesick and bitterness. The reader can tell that he feels homesick with his repetitive use of the word “heartsick”. The author’s tone sounds bitterness in his sentence about how people have categorized Mazari as a refugee and they are treating him like a refugee, “ I was not merely one of the hundreds of down-at-heel nuisance from some hellhole in Central Asia”. Also the word “hellhole” is emphasised in this sentence as he is describes his some as a hellhole and “hellhole” is a word that people associate misery and a place we would rather not be in …show more content…
The author is from Afghanistan and like most Afghanis he escape to Australia because of the Taliban. In his old life, bombs exploding all over the Mazar-e-Sharif which indicates that life was not easy in Afghanistan and the chance of death is much higher. This is indicated by this quote, “ how many rockets explode…”. The reader can also tell that the author is from Afghanistan by this quote, “ I say, in Dari”, as Dari is one of the numerous Persian languages spoken in Afghanistan and in the title, The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Mazar-e-Sharif is the third largest city in Afghanistan and the title made it seems like he is from Mazar-e-Sharif. From the clues mentioned the author, Najar Mazari was from
The author’s emotion in this passage is loneliness, homesick and bitterness. The reader can tell that he feels homesick with his repetitive use of the word “heartsick”. The author’s tone sounds bitterness in his sentence about how people have categorized Mazari as a refugee and they are treating him like a refugee, “ I was not merely one of the hundreds of down-at-heel nuisance from some hellhole in Central Asia”. Also the word “hellhole” is emphasised in this sentence as he is describes his some as a hellhole and “hellhole” is a word that people associate misery and a place we would rather not be in …show more content…
The author is from Afghanistan and like most Afghanis he escape to Australia because of the Taliban. In his old life, bombs exploding all over the Mazar-e-Sharif which indicates that life was not easy in Afghanistan and the chance of death is much higher. This is indicated by this quote, “ how many rockets explode…”. The reader can also tell that the author is from Afghanistan by this quote, “ I say, in Dari”, as Dari is one of the numerous Persian languages spoken in Afghanistan and in the title, The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Mazar-e-Sharif is the third largest city in Afghanistan and the title made it seems like he is from Mazar-e-Sharif. From the clues mentioned the author, Najar Mazari was from