Her grandmother, brother, three sisters and herself all had to run away.“There is not one family that has not eaten the bitterness of war,” a young Afghan merchant said in the 1985 National Geographic story that appeared with Sharbat’s photograph on the cover. She was a child when her country was caught in the jaws of the Soviet invasion. A carpet of destruction smothered countless villages like hers. She was perhaps six when Soviet bombing killed her parents. By day the sky bled terror. At night the dead were buried. And always, the sound of planes, stabbing her with dread. “We left Afghanistan because of the fighting,” said her brother, Kashar Khan, filling in the narrative of her life. He is a straight line of a man with a raptor face and
I remember the day that it all happen. The day the battle for Yahya Khel started, the first major offensive operation for 3rd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment (Black Knights), 172nd Infantry Brigade. I was in my rack on Forward Operating Base Super (FOB), in the early morning, I was awoken by a member the Operation Detachment Alpha (ODA) team that we shared the FOB with. He asked me “You the mortar guy?” I said I was. “Grab your gear. We have to go, we loaded your 120mm mortar and all the rounds into our vehicles. I’ll explain the situation on the way.” He said
One day, Father and Mother wolf heard something outside of their den and when they looked out, they found a naked human baby outside. Mother wolf adopted the hairless "man-cub". Shere Khan arrived, demanding the man-cub for his meal, but was soon driven off by all of the wovles. Raksha (the mother wolf), named the man-cub Mowgli the Frog because of his hairlessness.
October. Now known as Monstober. The incidents’ happening constantly through the month meant for candy, and even on the day of celebration, Halloween, now has gotten all out of hand. Canada is turning worse and worse every day after the years of killing. Karanveer Khahra is now trying to change the M, back to an O. Karanveer Khahra. He was born in Canada, but has a background from India, as being the only person in his family to be born in Canada. He is smart, intelligent, funny, but serious at the same time. He has been trick or treating since he was 2, and stopped when this started happening, at the age of 11. Now will he be able to complete his mission of the unsolved mystery of Monstober? Continue and find out.
Khan believes that humanity is just like an aging movie star, the one who must keep shinning despite the different advancements and moral conflicts around them. Khan talks about advancements in such a way of comparing life before and the life today. He claims, “… life was very, very simple then…”. Khan explained, before you just had to eat what you have, work in a place that provided food in the table, married the first girl you dated, and how science was then “simple and logical”. However, it all changed when internet and many different progressions came about.
In Afghanistan, there is a divide between the Pashtuns and the Hazaras; the Pashtuns are upper class citizens who are treated with respect while the Hazaras are lower class, minority citizens who are treated poorly. Because of the contrasting history of the two groups, their responses to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul were complete opposites. The Pashtuns “danced on [the] street,” (Hosseini 200) while the Hazaras cried “God help the Hazaras now” (Hosseini 213). The conflict between the Pashtuns and Hazaras in “The Kite Runner” directly reflects the real life issues in Afghanistan starting in the late 70’s and continuing on past 2001.
“While my mother hemorrhaged to death during childbirth, Hassan lost his less than a week after he was born. Lost her to a fate most Afghans considered far worse than death: She ran off with a clan of traveling singers and dancers.”
All throughout this book, Afghanistan had many switches of power and constant war involving many countries, including the US and Russia. At the end of the book, as things are calming down, Laila says to Tariq, “Maybe there will be hope at the other end of this war, maybe for the first time in a long time.” (Hosseni 386). This quote shows the hope that the people of Afghanistan still had to possess to persevere through the years of war. The war affected thousands of lives in the country, as the war swept through the different cities. This war of especially affected Laila because it resulted in the death of her parents. Afghanistan as a whole had to show tremendous strength throughout the book as they endured through the war. Perseverance is most prominently shown through all citizens during the country’s war.
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“No Good Men Among the Living” tells readers about the situation in the Middle East, specifically Afghanistan, but from an unusual perspective. Written by Anand Gopal, a journalist from the United States, it is not common to see a book entailing the other side. That is, the perspective of actual Afghan’s along with a first-hand account of what is was like to be living the “war on terror” from their side. Gopal is careful to make sure that the stories he hears are all true (to the best of his ability) and distills a sense of empathy from the audience. Gopal tells the stories of three individuals in specific: Mullah Cable, Jan Muhammad, and Heela. Each story is as powerful as the others and each story tells a side that the United States often doesn’t hear about.
With the Taliban beginning its reigns on Afghanistan, darkness took over the nation. Terror became a more common installment into the minds of the citizens. Hearing the rumble of the jeeps, the bangs of the AK-47s, and the bombs setting off can send a shiver down anyone’s back. Families are torn apart, children forget what play time is, schools are destroyed. The injustice that the Taliban brought is defined through the cruelest of actions. “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.” (Hosseini, 1) With their regime, the Taliban established radical rules that limited the country to all but making the essential function of speaking, barely legal. The effect of the Taliban begin to spread specifically towards Amir and his family. With the beginning the war, Amir sees his
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Hosseini begins to show the loss of innocence and the effects of the conflict with the Soviet takeover. “The generation of Afghan
The media is well known for relaying information to other people. The people who relay the information may not be completely educated on the topic they are reporting. Some of the type of components the reporters of the media try to relay to the rest of the world is medical cases. Sometimes, they oversimplify their findings and do not give sufficient evidence to their audience. On the other hand, other reporters of the media are able to adequately inform their audience.
Violence, war, discrimination, and poverty: these issues have long been a part of Afghanistan’s history. Even though things in Afghanistan are getting better, war fills the country, and women and children have to learn to endure abuse, caused by men and the Taliban; they also learn to endure poverty. Considering this, it is no wonder why Afghanistan is in the terrible position it is in now. Many Afghan cities like Kabul are filled with things like violence and discrimination, and the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini takes place in Kabul. This book follows the lives of two Afghani women, Mariam and Laila, as they suffer pain and discrimination received from the Taliban and their
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini takes a solid focus on the lives of two young women, Mariam and Laila, who grow up in a struggling and turbulent Afghanistan. This book emulates the lives of those who have actually been affected by the extreme changes of power within their culture. From the Soviets to the Taliban, these people are caught in a war they cannot win but must deal with the consequences of. The lives of Mariam and Laila are consumed and silenced by those with power over them, namely males with traditional values. The book conveys the idea that even with an immense amount of destruction and terror wrought throughout Afghanistan, underneath lies a beauty that has been muted but it still provides hope for the future.