When Najmah Went Away Analysis

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(MIP-2)The author creates reality with the struggles that the two girls are going through.(SIP-A) Najmah has to live with this trauma of losing her mom and brother and cannot speak or sleep.(STEWE-1)Najmah doesn’t talk after she witnesses Mada-jan and Habib die. After she gets up from being knocked down by a lot of rocks she runs to Mada-jan and Habib. She checks to see if they are actually dead. Najmah moves the two bodies to put them together and then is rescued by Akhtar and Khalida. Khalida cuts Najmah’s hair and dresses her into new clothes. Najmah doesn’t move a lot after the trauma. Akhtar buries Habib and Mada-jan and then the family plus Najmah start moving towards the refugee camps. Najmah doesn’t speak or communicate with the family …show more content…

Najmah is incapable of communicating with Akhtar and Khalida even after a couple of weeks. Najmah doesn’t even know if she will be able to ever talk again. She attempts to talk but when she tries her mouth does not make any noise.(STEWE-2)As well as having difficulty talking she also struggles with sleeping. Not only had Najmah been near the death of her mother and brother she also saw them die. She saw the two motionless bodies but also saw blood pour out Mada-jan’s mouth. Najmah was scarred and horrified by the tragic trauma. When Akhtar and Khalida rescued her they washed and clothed her and carried on. They would travel all the time and they would have to stop to rest and then continue. When everyone was sleeping Najmah could not because she was scared and everytime she closed her eyes she relived the memory of Mada-jan and Habib’s deaths. …show more content…

Najmah didn’t want to go through the pain of seeing what’s left of her family vanish. One of the many responses due to trauma can be reliving the certain moment over and over again(“Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome”). Najmah was worried about reliving the trauma and that does in fact happen to others. Because Najmah had seen her mother and brother die she could fall under the category of reliving the trauma over again. (SIP-B)Nusrat is deeply affected by the loss of her husband, she cannot sleep and does not think about anything else. (STEWE-1) When Nusrat was still in New York she was living on her own in an apartment. One day it got broken into and she was a frantic mess. Faiz tried to calm her down and comfort her. When she looked into his eyes she knew it was true love. She felt a connection with him immediately. When he left her in Afghanistan she wasn’t prepared to lose him. After many days, weeks, and months she didn’t get a response or letter from him. One night during a dream she saw Margaret and Faiz. They both greeted her and then said goodbye.

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