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The Taliban In 'Under The Persimmon Tree'

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Imagine living in a world where the people can only pray and hope that they can see the light of tomorrow. Where there are men that can raid your house and then shoot you and your family until you are all dead or they can lock you in your house and then slaughter you all by burning the house or throwing explosives at it. This is the life which the people live in in the novel Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples. In the novel, the Taliban took away Baba-jan and Nur away from Najmah and also bombed Golestan killing Najmah’s mother and her baby brother Habib. Today no matter where in Afghanistan you live, you will quickly know of who the Taliban are, their sheer force and harshness, and how they treat the people they rule over. …show more content…

If they are the rulers of Afghanistan, then why do everyone hate them? The Taliban that we Americans picture are “A group of radically militant terrorists that reign terror on all the people in Afghanistan and more places (Kevin Nygen documentary script.) But are these “radically militant terrorists” (K.N) really like what we think they are? Taliban translated into English means “the seekers (of wisdom??)” (Nathan Hawes, documentary script). However nice their name seems, they have killed and terrorized the entire Middle East claiming millions of lives as well as making people have to leave their homes and possessions to escape to find a better life than the one they have had in the Middle East. The Taliban are a reason why we have the migrant/refugee crisis today. These knowledge seekers have not only killed so many people but have also stolen from those they kill using their sheer force and brutality so that the people won’t be able to resist them when the

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