How Does Deborah Ellis Show Courage In Parvana

Parvana by Deborah Ellis is a young adult novel that includes a fictional character called Parvana, which teaches its readers about the sacrifices she has made constantly to provide food, water and other essentials for her family to live another day or two during the time the Taliban have been ruling Afghanistan. Ellis’s protagonist Parvana sacrifices her life for her family, in a dangerous situation, and chops her hair off to disguise herself as a boy, aware that she might get caught. Parvana is continuously in dangerous situations but ultimately enables bravery and courage. Parvana’s witness’s the suffering of people in Afghanistan, like women having to wear head coverings and men having to grow beards. She has also seen the consequences

She shows bravery when Parvana is continuously in dangerous situations and has to get out of them and with that she enables courage and boldness. Parvana has shown audacity when she has to go outside to get food because the food they have at their home is scarce. She goes outside to get food even though she is a girl and might get chased down the market, but she goes anyway to get even the smallest amount of food. She also shows her heroism when she finds Homa at night and brings her home. She is mindful that if the Taliban saw her bringing Homa, without a chador or burqa, home, Parvana and Homa would both get in trouble. She does this because she doesn’t want to leave Homa alone. After all, the Taliban might find her and kill her. For example, the quote “If the Taliban caught them without curfew and with the woman without a burqa or a head covering, the noise they were making would be the least of these problems,” explains Parvana. She is alert that they can get in serious trouble and they were making noise that could also be a problem but she doesn’t want to leave Homa alone. Despite her young age, Parvana has shown fearlessness in multiple situations. Not only did she enable audacity, but she also enabled strength in these

Parvana has observed the pain people in Afghanistan have been going through and the outcomes she has seen, for not following the rules that have been put up by the Taliban. The suffering she has viewed is women and girls getting beaten up for not covering their faces, peoples homes getting bombed, people getting killed by landmines like her brother, getting sent to prison like her father, just because they got their education in a different country outside of Afghanistan. She also has people losing their body parts as a punishment for stealing or disobeying the rules of the Taliban. For example, the quote “blood flew in every direction”. The man cried out in pain. Next to Parvana, Shauzia started screaming” shows that Parvana and Shauzia were frightened but Parvana kept calm and quiet. Parvana notices a considerable amount of people go through discomfort, including people from her family like her father getting sent to prison and her mother who is beaten up for trying to save Parvana's father but she controls her emotions and stays