Under The Persimmon Tree Sparknotes

(AGG) Suzanne Fisher Staples book Under The Persimmon Tree is a very well made book that should teach people how life is in a different part of the world through a different person's perspective.(BS-1) Najmah loses people in her family throughout the course of the book and is very heartbroken and traumatized, it also shapes her in a way. (BS-2) Najmah is traveling through the mountains with Akhtar and his family and Najmah tries to persevere through it, while she is doing so she is losing her old self and pretending to be a boy named Shaheed in the process.(BS-3) When Najmah arrives in Peshawar she finds someone who takes her to Nusrat's school to do work, soon after Nusrat finds out Shaheed is Najmah.(TS) In Under The Persimmon Tree Najmah

(STEWE-2) While traveling the mountains Akhtar builds a canopy and tells them to stay there while he looks for food. Najmah and the others had to not move or talk while under the shawls and she tries to feel safe by imagining a star that Bada-jan taught to her and Nur,“I think of Nur and my father, and look up for al-Qutb, the star that never moves, before I remember we are under the cover of the shawls”(107). Najmah is trying to remember positive things about her father and brother so it can possibly push her through this.(SIP-B)When the Americans bombed Najmah’s village, she lost her mother and baby brother.(STEWE-1) Najmah’s village has been bombed and she has witnessed her mother and brother's death, “ I sit in the dirt beside them quietly, not crying, not thinking, not even aware that I am breathing, and it occurs to me that I might be dead , too”(83).(STEWE-2)Najmah is traveling the mountains with Akhtar and Kahlida but she is still traumatized of her mother and brother’s death. She wants to speak, but she physically can't,“They speak to me and try to make me feel welcome. But I feel as if my tongue has been locked inside my mouth since the moment

But I need to know what happened to your family so I can help you find them”(197-198).(SIP-B) While living with Nusrat Najmah sees what she is like and starts to understand her more.(STEWE-1) Husna dislikes Najmah and talks to her bitterly, she told her to not take advantage of Nusrat,” I decide I will call the teacher Bibi Nusrat, a term of respect and affection”(204).(STEWE-2) Najmah sees how much Nusrat misses Faiz and worries,” Several times I have seen her lying at night under the stars on the cot, talking to her husband and crying”(223).(CS) Those are the reasons why I think Najmah is shaped from meeting