Faizabad Harvest 1980 Analysis

War and Separation of Families in” Faizabad Harvest, 1980”

Suzanne Fisher Staples merges the events of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan

(1979-1989) into “Faizabad Harvest, 1980 “. Despite the fact that Staples never has been to

Afghanistan, she wrote the events as if she were there. In this essay I will investigate how

Staples has manage to show how family ties are strengthened, and at other times, broken and left

shattered by war .

The situation of war always at the beginning ties the family together like they will not leave each other, but with events of the war progress the family starts to leave or have been lost in the war. In “Faizabad Harvest, 1980.”The father left his family to join the mujahedeen. For example, at the beginning of the story, narrator says “when our father and the other men of Fizabad joined the mujahedeen at the start of

For example in “Faziabad Harvest 1980,” Staples shows this situation when the mother dies, and her kids become orphans, “watching our mother die.” (114) first their father left then their mother die so they become orphans, These children lost their parents in the war and they are in the a young age they didn’t have that experience in the life yet, which will make their life in a risk . According to M. Siddieq Noorzoy ,Emeritus Professor of Economics at University of Alberta, “During the 1980s, as part of the Soviet campaign to drive out the rural population, children were specifically targeted. Soviet forces kidnapped an estimated 50,000 Afghan children from villages, orphanages, and city streets in an effort to indoctrinate them in Communist ideology and use them to form militias.” In the war children suffered from different pains, but losing your parents is the hardest one in the life , even if they are in the war, having your parents with you could helped to across and guide you in this