Like Peter Pan, most people wish to stay young forever, and never grow up to endure responsibilities like jobs,bills, and children. People of age tend to say that they’re forever twenty-one when asked how old they are, simply because their childhood was one of the best times of their life. When you're a child you feel safe and.protect by your parents, whenever there was loud thunder outside, you would hide away under your covers, or run to the protection of your mother and father's arms. Life in America is great, now imagine you are if Afghanistan, and thunder is crackling outside, except it's not thunder, it's the sound of gunfire and bombs dropping in the distance. Bombs are dropping more frequently now, imagine yourself running to the protection of your mother or father’s arms then realizing that they are already dead. Imagine being born into war with no hopes of ever walking outside and feeling safe.
In Afghanistan children are lucky to make it to age 21 yet alone proclaim
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At a young fragile age he endures many hardships that leave permanent emotional scars on his childhood that will carry on with him forever. One being that both of his parents are murdered by the Taliban, and two he was sent to an orphanage and was later sold to the Taliban to be used as a sex slave. Amir says, "there are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood." With racial controversy already existing in his father’s childhood and the nonexistent civil rights of Afghanistan, war subsequently started and his people were sought after. Sohrab's childhood never really “was” as he was already born into a “slave's” existence. No longer able to withstand the ways of afghan society, Sohrab attempts suicide by slitting his wrist, but his attempt fails leaving him with a physical scar to remember from his