Bread Winner Analysis

Throughout his novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, Khaled Hosseini explores the stories of different young girls in Afghanistan, each with their own unique story. One of the main divisions between each was their level of education and their families view on the necessity of having kids in school. It seemed that there was a direct parallel between a child’s access to education and their goals and initiative for the rest of their life. There were also strong divisions between adults and their views in educating females in school. Some parents were very open and enthusiastic about their daughters receiving an education while others thought they belonged elsewhere and going to school was a waste of time. The Taliban was a strong opponent to young girls and their educations and did everything in their power to prevent girls from going to school or becoming at all independent. Examining the importance of education from the perspectives of the Taliban, adults, and young girls in Kabul at this time creates an image of suppression and brings into question the motives of the Taliban’s reform rules and whether or not they could have been meant to distinguish the threat of educated generations weakening their power.

“Bread Winners” is a painting that was created by Summer Wheat in 2016. This piece was created using acrylic on aluminum wire mesh. The reason why I had chosen this piece is because it stood out to me the most due to the artist’s use of space and color. The artist chose to use metallic acrylic paint on a black background and by doing so, gives a nice contrast and emphasis on the subject matter. The colors that are used in this piece are copper, silver, and gold. This entire painting is two-dimensional and was displayed without a bolder or frame.

Education is one of the most important contributors to having a successful future. In developed countries such as North America boys and girls are fortunate enough to have access to an unbiased education system. Therefore, allowing children to have countless opportunities. However, in countries like Afghanistan girls are marginalized and neglected the right to learn. Afghanistan is a country of war, where women and girls are often the worst victims. In 2011, Afghanistan was known as the most dangerous place in the world for a girl to be born (Kissane). Malala Yousufzai, a female education activist was also a victim of war. Yousufazi was shot in the head and neck for advocating for girls and their rights to have access to education. Similarly, to Yousufzai many women in Afghanistan stand up for their entitlement to having equality. Those courageous women often become victims of abuse and are often killed. Investing in girls’ education is critical, not only is it life-altering for a girl’s future, but it’s also poses benefits to society. By allowing Afghan girls access to educating we are also promoting better socioeconomic s, a reduction in child marriages, and an improvement in mortality rates.

In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s Young Goodman Brown and Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle share a common ground of witchcraft and a man vs man inner conflict of the unknown. We witness our two protagonist Goodman Brown and Rip endure life or death situations and what they conquer throughout their self-entitlement.

But imagine waking up one day and realizing all your rights, including your right of education, have been taken away just because you’re a girl. What would you do? In the book “I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban” Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb, daughter of a school principal, became the target of the Taliban, who wanted to ban girls' education and were blowing up schools and closing others down in her home of Swat, in Pakistan.

Women are said to have fewer opportunities and not as good opportunities as men may have. Women, also have to work twice as hard as men do to get a job that's “meant for men”. The fact that women have to work twice as hard as men gives women the advantage of learning new things and also how to really work for what you what. In this day and age, many wrongful men still believe they have power over females. Women are treated as lower class to men. We were told as we grew up to do what the men tell you if you want to keep them. That our job was to wash the dishes, clean the house, and make dinner. In some countries this is still how women are seen and how women should act and if they didn’t they would be punished.. This was how it was in the book “Kite Runner”. Women had almost no say in what they were allowed and not allowed to do. Through seemingly minor references and characterization, the author reveals a powerful theme portraying the realistic position of women in the Afghan culture. These examples provide the minor evidence that accrued through the novel.

Around the world, women’s rights have been limited because the government and men feel women will overpower them. I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb demonstrates how women’s rights have been limited and restricted due to the Taliban taking control over The Swat Valley of Pakistan. Before the Taliban, women could have jobs however they were limited to certain kinds of jobs. Growing up, Yousafzia felt that girl could strive to achieve more if they are educated. However, the government and the Taliban saw that women having more opportunities would interfere what they considered their culture and traditions. However, Yousafzai saw other women with the same culture and tradition having more freedom that the women in Swat Valley.

In the 1920’s, women in America fought for their right to vote. Now, in 2016, all races and both genders are allowed to vote. Women are no longer discriminated against, and they are seen as strong, smart, and independent. Women in Afghanistan, however do not have the pleasure of even going outside without having to be covered from head to toe and without a male relative to escort them. Khaled Hosseini, author of A Thousand Splendid Suns, displays the struggle of Afghani women by telling the tragic stories of two women in the small town of Kabul.

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is set in war-ravaged Kabul, Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule of the country. The quote, “There had been a war going on in Afghanistan for more than twenty years”(13) indicates that it probably took place in the Taliban’s early rule between 1996 and 1998. The protagonist is a young eleven year girl named Parvana who has spent most of her life witnessing and suffering from the turmoil in her country. At the beginning of the story, she appears to be a naive and ordinary girl in the sixth grade who innocently believes that, when the Taliban close down the girls’ schools, she is getting a short holiday from school.

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam and Laila are learning to live in a war zone when the Taliban gains control of their country. Consequently, the Taliban's laws are one source of major female inequality within

Afghanistan is a war-torn country that has been plagued by death, turmoil, and terror. Ever since the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979, the country has been an unstable battlefield that has showed no remorse for any groups of people; especially women. The war zone, known as Afghanistan, has affected women the worst out of all groups of people affected by the many wars. From getting their rights to education, health, and careers taken away, to being treated like a useless piece of trash, women have experienced a drastic amount of inequality, pain, and fear. Ever since the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan, Afghan women have been physically, mentally, and sexually abused, denied access to basic human rights, and subjected to the worst of Sharia Law (thesis).

In Afghanistan the men and women are treated differently. Men in Afghanistan are the bread winners. Every morning they go to work, or work at home in the fields and sell their goods at the local market. The women in Afghanistan are viewed as the lower class and looked down on. Women are to stay home and take care of everything there, they’re not allowed to go to school, or to work (Johnson, 1998). They not only have

The Taliban came into power in 2005 in Pakistan and began dictating the civilians how to live their lives the “right Islamic way”. The people of the Swat District were forced to obey every command of the Taliban unless they and their families wanted to be killed. Women especially became very oppressed and had to enter Purdah, wear hijabs whenever in public, and were encouraged to not go to school. All westernized media, clothes and games were banned, anyone who did not follow the law would be shot. The community lived in such a terrible state of fear that Malala and her family were afraid to go outside where they were known as famous social, political and educational activists. A BBC correspondent contacted Ziauddin to make a blog from a school girl’s point of view on living under Taliban rule. Malala soon took up the challenge and related her experiences over the phone about her oppressive life in Swat Valley and the threats against girls like her for going to school. Eventually, her school had to close after many local school bombings, and then the whole valley had to be evacuated for the Pakistani Army to come wipe out the Taliban.

Suffering from poverty, struggling for an education, and fighting for women’s rights, Yousafzai battles for girls’ education. In Malala Yousafzai’s biography, I Am Malala, she tells her story about life under the Taliban’s rule. She wishes to shed light on Pakistan’s inequality issue and the damage the Taliban has done to her home. Throughout the book, Yousafzai persuasively incorporates facts and research, which efficaciously extends her credibility, but her lack of emotion and sentiment causes the audience to lose their sense of sympathy.

In this powerful book, there is a very important lesson hidden troughout it. The author’s message to her readers is to speak out during times of injustice, even if you stand alone. To be brief about the story, Malala was born and raised in the Muslim country of Pakistan, where women are inferior to men in many ways. Her father ran many schools, including the girls school she attended. However, a militant group known as the Taliban invaded and brainwashed many Pashtuns about their holy book called the Quaran. As a result, more rights were