Summary Of The Book 'The Breadwinner'

In the book, The Breadwinner, Parvana’s family had such a hard life after all the bombs happened. At first they said they said that they had a big house, plenty of food, even a car, and everything they needed. The father was a teacher and got arrested for having a foreign education so the Taliban arrested him. Then the family didn’t have the money they needed so Parvana had to change into a boy so she can do the job that her father did which was going to the market to read and write letters for people. Parvana went with her father when he did it so it wasn’t so hard for her to do. She was lonely a lot. However, there was a girl Shauzia who had just as bad of a hard life as Parvana. Her family fought a lot and she had a plan in her life. She

Kabul. Parvana and Nooria have different points of views on cleaning and working. In the book, Nooria gives Parvana an ultimatum. Nooria said, ”Ali is almost out of diapers so do want to wash them or do you want to go get water.” Parvana always did whatever it took to make sure they had something they needed. Nooria is also the bossy type of big sister. She flips her hair to make Parvana jealous and Parvana said, “ My body will look like that one day.” Then Nooria said, “ You wish. You will never look like this.” Nooria is like the mean girl sort of type. In the book she is kind of a bragger of her

She told them the story about how her family got shot. She was saying, “ I escaped from Mazar-e-Sharif just after the Taliban Captured the city.” The taliban is in Mazar. They went from house to house looking for enemies. They came to my house. They came right inside! They grabbed my father and my brother and took them outside. They shot them right in the street. My mother started hitting them, and they shot her too. I ran back inside and hid in the closet. I was there for a long, long time. I thought they would kill me, too, but they were finished killing people at my house. They were busy killing at other houses.” From this story, we all know she is traumatized and had such a rough ending in her state. At this point Parvana is worried about her family. Parvana said, “The Taliban has captured Mazar! That can’t be! My mother is there. My brother and sisters are there.” On top of that, Parvana was so upset that her friend was leaving to Paris. Parvana said, “When will we see each other again? How will we keep in touch?” Shauzia said, “ I’ve got it all figured out. We will meet again on the first day of spring twenty years from now.” “We won’t say goodbye, then. We’ll just say so long for now” Parvana said. Who knows what will happen in twenty years. It was still sad that Parvana’s family never returned. But one