The Breadwinner By Deborah Ellis: Synthesis Essay

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In 2000, Deborah Ellis the author, knowing the conflict of one other country and what was happening wrote the book The Breadwinner.Which is about the when the Taliban came and took over Afghanistan, and in the development making sure that women had no rights and men had tons of rights. This book takes place with a family of originally 4 women and 2 men, but one is only a small toddler that cannot go outside by himself. this leaves the only man to go outside by himself or escort the women being the Father. But soon the story takes a turn of events and the father gets taken away by a Taliban soldier for anonymous reasons. This means that he is leaving the family of all women with no rights, mostly women that have to wear burqa to even walk …show more content…

For example, one page 51 to 52, Parvana starts screeching at her mom saying, “We’re out of food!!!!” then as she keeps on yelling Noria yells back at her saying,“Leave her alone!!”. From this quote the reader can see that Noria has a lot more respect for the moms sensitiveness, while with Paravana she does not aggravation as much. She is much more concentrated on getting food for the family without her doing anything. One different example is when Noria says, “We’re out of food” and Parvana replies with,“I’m not going out there”. These quotes show again that Parvana is being self-centered and contemplating about herself instead often family members’ emotions.This relates to my theme because this shows that Noria being eldest already know that she has no freedom to go alfresco without their father. Also the mom knows this as she is just laying on the toshak that without their father they can not do much as they are all women and can't go outside without a

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