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Everyday the children of Afghanistan can’t go to school. Instead they they have to go out and get water for their families and to sell. The Text “The Plight of Afghan’s Child Water Carriers” written by Sayeaed Jan Sabwoon and the video “For Afghan Kids Hauling Water Is A Living” by Zarif Nazar have many similarities and differences. The video “For Afghan Kids, Hauling Water Is A Living” Zarif Nazar focuses on using visual to show what the kids teaching up and down broken and dangerous steps carrying buckets of water up on their heads while helping their donkeys too. The video also uses the children speaking in their native language and using english subtitles. In the video the producer takes the perspective of three children to show different points of view from the different kids in different scenarios everyday. In the video the producer also uses a theme which is survival. This is because he show these kids having to work every day in the freezing cold and blazing heat to make enough money to barley …show more content…

The text states in paragraph three, “The banging of the empty cans lends the scene a playful air, until they reach a tap at the base of the hill, where water flows two hours every other day.” The video tells us that every day the kids have to carry multiple canisters which are extremely heavy on many trips. Paragraph four of the text also states this by saying, “The kids fill the canisters with water until they are as heavy as grain sacks. Then, loading the canisters on a donkey, or carrying lighter loads on their heads, they climb back up the hill in the first of many trips.” Also, the video says that the child water carriers of Aqubi Silo have to miss school everyday to fetch water for their families. The passage also states this in paragraph two, “But they don't go to class. Instead, they go off to fetch water -- over and over again -- until long after the school day is

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