(AGG) Refugees are without homes and without a purpose constantly in danger, struggling to survive. (BS-1) As shown in Under the Persimmon Tree, refugees not only lack homes, but they also lack food and resources. (BS-2) Najmah and Nusrat notice this, and also notice that there are large amounts of many different people that stay in the refugee camps. (BS-3) Najmah decides to return home at the end of the novel, and this is a big choice refugees decide to make or not to make. (TS) In Under the Persimmon Tree, the author uses refugee camps to show conflict in Najmah and Nusrat’s lives.
(MIP-1) As Najmah and Nusrat show in the book, refugees desperately need good food and resources which they don’t often get in the camps. (SIP-A) Najmah and …show more content…
Which creates the conflict of losing one of the main and most important characters in the story. (SIP-B) By watching her students eat the food she provides in such a hungrily manner, Nusrat understands how they barely get food where they are staying. (STEWE-1) “Nusrat hand each of them a plate, and they grab for the spicy meat and the still-warm bread, jostling each other on a chaotic ritual they perform each day” (Staples 71). Every child scrambles to eat as much food as possible because they probably will not eat any more food for the rest of the day. (STEWE-2) Under the Persimmon Tree clearly shows how much food is given to refugees, which is not a lot. The refugee children in Under the Persimmon Tree are lucky to have Nusrat be feeding them and giving them an education because that is extremely rare at real refugee camps. This element is character development on Nusrat. It shows that she is giving and likes to help others in any way she can, proving she suits her name which means “help”. Suzanne Fisher Staples took something so realistic about kids not receiving food in refugee camps and input it in her story by having one of the main characters feed them, giving it a happier twist. (STEWE-3) Suzanne Fisher …show more content…
(SIP-A) Refugee camps are usually far from where the refugees originally lived. (STEWE-1) They are a very long way for the refugees to travel. “I look back over my shoulder at the path we've ridden all throughout the night” (Staples 85). Refugees usually have to walk for days as they flee their country and head toward the refugee camps. Najmah is thinking over the path they have been taking for a while now, which shows how far refugees have to travel. (STEWE-2) Najmah and Akhtar’s family stay in a refugee camps between Afghanistan and Pakistan. “Pakistan has closed the border to refugees. We will have to stay at Torkum” (Staples 118). Torkum is between Afghanistan which is where Najmah is leaving and Peshawar which is where Baba-Han and Nur are. Najmah wants to get to Peshawar to find her dad and brother so her and Akhtar’s family stay at a refugee camp in Torkum. (SIP-B) Some refugees decide to return home, like Najmah does at the end of the novel. (STEWE-1) In Under the Persimmon Tree, only some of the refugees decided to return back home (such as Najmah). But that was because those refugees had nothing to return to back at home because their homes were destroyed by bombs. Some did return back home to make a better life for themselves and rebuild their homes, once again like Najmah did. Although it come as a surprise that these refugees still wanted to return back. “They
(MIP-1) As Najmah and Nusrat show in the book, refugees desperately need good food and resources which they don’t often get in the camps. (SIP-A) Najmah and …show more content…
Which creates the conflict of losing one of the main and most important characters in the story. (SIP-B) By watching her students eat the food she provides in such a hungrily manner, Nusrat understands how they barely get food where they are staying. (STEWE-1) “Nusrat hand each of them a plate, and they grab for the spicy meat and the still-warm bread, jostling each other on a chaotic ritual they perform each day” (Staples 71). Every child scrambles to eat as much food as possible because they probably will not eat any more food for the rest of the day. (STEWE-2) Under the Persimmon Tree clearly shows how much food is given to refugees, which is not a lot. The refugee children in Under the Persimmon Tree are lucky to have Nusrat be feeding them and giving them an education because that is extremely rare at real refugee camps. This element is character development on Nusrat. It shows that she is giving and likes to help others in any way she can, proving she suits her name which means “help”. Suzanne Fisher Staples took something so realistic about kids not receiving food in refugee camps and input it in her story by having one of the main characters feed them, giving it a happier twist. (STEWE-3) Suzanne Fisher …show more content…
(SIP-A) Refugee camps are usually far from where the refugees originally lived. (STEWE-1) They are a very long way for the refugees to travel. “I look back over my shoulder at the path we've ridden all throughout the night” (Staples 85). Refugees usually have to walk for days as they flee their country and head toward the refugee camps. Najmah is thinking over the path they have been taking for a while now, which shows how far refugees have to travel. (STEWE-2) Najmah and Akhtar’s family stay in a refugee camps between Afghanistan and Pakistan. “Pakistan has closed the border to refugees. We will have to stay at Torkum” (Staples 118). Torkum is between Afghanistan which is where Najmah is leaving and Peshawar which is where Baba-Han and Nur are. Najmah wants to get to Peshawar to find her dad and brother so her and Akhtar’s family stay at a refugee camp in Torkum. (SIP-B) Some refugees decide to return home, like Najmah does at the end of the novel. (STEWE-1) In Under the Persimmon Tree, only some of the refugees decided to return back home (such as Najmah). But that was because those refugees had nothing to return to back at home because their homes were destroyed by bombs. Some did return back home to make a better life for themselves and rebuild their homes, once again like Najmah did. Although it come as a surprise that these refugees still wanted to return back. “They