Afghani

Imagine being covered from head to toe each time you left your house; hidden under a long cloak, your eyes blocked out by mesh, your appearance anonymous to preserve your purity. Those who dared to show their bodies would be stoned or thrown in prison. This is the reality of the world that many women lived in under the Mujahideen occupation of Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini’s portrayal of Afghanistan in 1000 Splendid Suns gives an insight into the mistreatment of women in a heavily misogynistic…

Quo-li Driskill’s piece “Shaking out shells: Cherokee two-spirits rebalancing the World” discusses the consequences that colonization has played on Cherokee gender systems through European colonization and invasion. Driskell explains that since Cherokee land was invaded, “unbalanced power relationships between men and women” have formed (Driskell 123). A word used frequently in this writing to describe this relationship between genders before colonization is duyuktv, meaning “balance, truth,…

The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini in 2003 is a narrative, which features a young Afghani boy named Amir and his personal struggles of impressing his father to deciding what is right and wrong in life and how to treat his best friend, who is also his servant. The novel deals with many personal tragic events and the events occurring in Afghanistan during the 1970-1980s, which includes the Soviet intervention, thousands of refugees escaping and the Taliban rule of Afghanistan. Khaled…

Afghanistan I. Introduction Hook: Afghanistan…. Because we live in America, our government and hollywood have indoctrinated us over our lifetime. Why do I say that? For most of us, when I said Afghanistan we began to picture what we have been trained to think of. Ak-47’s, bearded men wearing white turbans and robes, terrorist, bombs… Our government is wrong. Hollywood is wrong. We are wrong. Wrong for judging. Purpose: Shed light on students of what the Afghan culture is and our misconceptions.…

A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Story of Perseverance What if your survival depended on the strength of your courage? The novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Houssini bounces back and forth from the perspectives of two Afghani women who struggle with hardships and how they overcome them together. Through the narratives of both women, the novel shows the theme of perseverance through the characters’ determination to overcome their struggles. At the beginning of the book, the main focus is on Mariam.…

and exclaims, “’…Thank you but I don 't want, I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don 't like it free money”’ (Hosseini 130). Because of Baba’s strong pride in himself and his Pashtun Afghani descent, he often proves ignorant and stubborn when matters concerning help of any kind are offered to Baba. Therefore, Baba is a prime example of being blinded by his pride just so he can be looked at and recognized as an alfa male. Furthermore,…

Lialma is the widow of Abdi, one of the pilots. She was born in 1970 and states that she is “43 or 44”. Her son, Tamin, who is 25, was present with her at the deposition. She had spoken with Karima Sadiqi on the telephone regarding her appearing for the deposition. Lialma speaks, reads and writes only Dari. She completed the eleventh grade and has not worked outside of the home. She and Abdi had been married for over twenty years. Abdi was “forty-six or maybe forty-eight” when he died.…

In the autobiography “An American Childhood” written by Annie Dillard, Dillard wrote about one of her unforgettable memories that left her disillusioned because of her misconception about an adult’s view of life. On the other hand, Saira Shah, in her article, “Longing to Belong”, she wrote about how her dreams of being part of her “original culture” crashed by a single incident that make her realize that the reality is not the same as what she expected. Therefore, it is clear that both of the…

When your freedom is thievery stolen from your own home country, nothing feels like home anymore. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghani-American novelist born in Afghanistan. Living in Afghanistan he had said that he grew up in a very peaceful place which made the author get the inspiration to write most of his stories settings in Afghanistan. One of his stories that had been drawn to the reader’s attention was “The Kite Runner’’. Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian author born in Cairo. Many of her writings…

centers on the fact that she was arrested in Afghanistan, a currently recognized battlefield, but was not labeled an enemy combatant. Her entire federal trial and conviction were based on an assault against US military and government personnel while in Afghani custody. Therefore, just as the definition of terrorism is difficult to define so is Siddiqui’s status as either a terrorist or victim. “Wars are not just physical; they are preceded and accompanied by a war of words” (Jan 2014, 77).…