The language barrier between Mahtab and the locals is an obstacle in need of over-coming for Mahtab in order for her to settle into society “Gradually the writing book began to make sense.” Mahtab’s determination and resilience allows her to overcome the obstacles set as a refugee seeking asylum in
"I'll give my life to ensure his safety" "Is it enough?" "Don't worry, m'lady. An Arabian's scimitar is worth ten of those western rifles" Then she saw them. Three warriors of her blood and flesh.
She is forced to use this theme of self-reliance in order to get through that very difficult time. There are many times in the book where Melba feels like giving up. She is forced to persevere through these times and believe in herself. While talking to Grandma India she says, “I tried to do some of the things Gandhi talks about--you know, keeping calm in your own mind no matter what’s going on outside.” Melba has to push herself during hard moments to keep her from giving up.
Imagine waking up every morning with the Taliban in rule, imagine waking up not knowing if you or your loved ones would die today, with bombs going off and gunfire ringing in your ears. This is what it's like every day in the book Under the Persimmon Tree, by Susan Fisher Staples. This book takes place in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11 the main character is named Najmah and she is in a family of five living on a farm in Golestan, Afghanistan. Her father and older brother got taken by the Taliban and the mother and younger brother got killed in the bombing. at the end all that is left is Nur and Najmah.
Dedication could never exist without motivation. In this speech delivered by Queen Elizabeth in 1588, she addresses her soldiers in Tilbury before the expected invasion of England by Spanish troops. Through her speech, she makes an attempt to create enthusiasm, boost morale, and motivate the troops through the use of rhetorical strategies such as Ethos, diction, and procatalepsis. The first rhetorical strategy employed by the queen is the use of selective diction in her address to the soldiers. Despite the blurred lines between the differentiation of her use of ethos and diction, Elizabeth takes a route of anthropomorphising her position amongst the troops whilst establishing her superiority as nobility.
Tone can be described as the author’s “attitude and feelings about the audience and the subject matter.” An author’s tone can not only help influence the reader’s opinion of the piece but can also In the essay, “From Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words on Wartime”, Robin Tolmach Lakoff uses cynical words, informative anecdotes, and blunt humor to enlighten the audience of the dehumanization of the enemy. She uses many specific examples in the text to get her tone and point across, including contemptuous expressions. The author uses very cynical words to discuss her tone in this essay.
Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird shows that she matures throughout the novel when she sees things from Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley’s perspective and understands the racial discrimination in Maycomb County. In the beginning of the novel, Scout is naive and innocent, however she matures as she encounters different situations in Maycomb. Some may say Scout is still ingenuous by the end of the novel, but the maturity and awareness she gains proves otherwise. In the 1930s, when the novel takes place, the Great Depression had just begun and everyone struggled. Along with racial discrimination, Scout learns about the hardships of life as a child.
(AGG) Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a mental illness that 7.8 percent of all Americans will experience once in their lifetime (Post). (BS-1) Post-traumatic stress disorder is accurately portrayed in the book Under the Persimmon Tree. (BS-2) The author uses these facts about post-traumatic stress disorder to create more authentic characterization and scenarios.
Unlike traditional patriarch centered families, Ma is the leader of the Joads and serves a more influential role than her husband, Tom, “and since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself” (80). Ma pushes aside her own vexations in favor of serving a much bigger picture: her family’s sense of security. Ma is the backbone of the family, and “she seemed to know that if she swayed, the family shook, and if she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall, the family will to function would be gone” (80). The Joad family depends on Ma’s reserved, sagacious ways in order to keep from falling apart. Her oldest daughter, Rose of Sharon, is initially her antithesis; a vain, superficial representation of all the negative traits the classic beautiful woman possesses.
The narrator portrays Hosna, the wife of Mustafa Sa’eed, as a person who lacked cultural loyalty because of not emulating the Sudanese culture. The narrator talks of her as a woman of a noble carriage and foreign type of beauty, because she used no henna on her feet and hands. She had a lovely smell, which was a perfume she used, her natural dark tint and white teeth. The Sudanese culture dictates her to apply henna on her nails and use makeup on herself. What is evident about Hosnas’ character is her desire for independence and individual rights.
In the novel Bread Winner by Deborah Ellis and there was a war going on in Afghanistan. Parvana’s family keep getting bomb on so her family keep getting poorer and poorer with each bomb hitting. (13) Why I think that is affecting Parvana 's life is because that means that her family can 't afford anything good or buy a good house far away from the war. I was said in the text the “Parvana 's life has been in ruins, and it was hard for her to image it another way. ”(16)
The novel incorporates the aspects in life that are typically viewed as unconventional or disheartening, and consequently displays the good that comes along with them. Although many characters within the novel clearly go through many forms of exile from home, Mustapha Mond, depicts the most heart-wrenching cut
However, she is so worried about keeping her fiancé that she does not tell him this. It is clear that she values her relationship with him so much and she is willing to do anything possible to be in a successful marriage with him. Another important duty that women have to carry in the Arab culture is that of friendship. When one woman in the group is undergoing problems, all the others come to her rescue. They offer emotional support and help each other go through life’s challenges.
This means that even though the war is coming and Marji’s parents could be busy demonstrating against it, they choose to be there for Marji and get her out of there, to somewhere where she is safe for a
As Ammu grew older, she “learned to live with this cold, calculating cruelty. She developed a lofty sense of injustice and the mulish, reckless streak that develops in Someone Small who has been bullied all their lives by Someone Big” (TGST 181-82). Her revolt against her father is symbolic of women’s revolt against all patriarchal authorities which dehumanize and devalue women and deny them their proper space. But Ammu is determined and she “did exactly nothing to avoid quarrels and confrontations. In fact it could be argued that she sought them out, perhaps even enjoyed them” (TGST 182).
