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Parvana Compare And Contrast Essay

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Do you know anyone that had to supply their family during the time of the Taliban's because her father was captured, and it was a girl disguised as a boy? I didn't know anyone like that either until I read the book, The Breadwinner. The girl in that book had to support her whole family all by herself, but she and I have a few thing in common and we are also different in a bunch of ways.
The ways Parvana and I are similar is not only our age, but also how we live. One way we are alike is we are the ones the family relies on to run errands and do things they wouldn't do. The way Parvana and I are alike in that way is because her family requires her to make several trips to the water tap for water with a heavy metal bucket. Parvana and I are also alike because if we needed money, we had to wait patiently for someone to come and ask us to do something for money. For Parvana, she waited on her blanket for someone to come so she could write and reply to a letter to them. For me, I wait a while for my mom to need something like going to my cousin's house to get something for cooking materials. As you can see, Parvana and I have a lot in common. Not only that, we also have a lot of things that are not in common. …show more content…

One thing we don't have in common is the way almost everyone takes everything for granted, if you were in Parvana's shoes you would want back the life you were complaining about back. When Parvana goes to work every day, she earns less than 50 cents. For a while, she was worried that she would get into some serious trouble when she went out into public without a male escort. She went out because her family needed someone to go and get food, her father could not do it because he was arrested for going to England for college. This kind of thing, I don't think it would have happened to anyone in America since this is a country of the

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