Preview

Parvana By Deborah Ellis Summary

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
653 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Parvana By Deborah Ellis Summary
This book was written by Deborah Ellis in 2002. Deborah Ellis has been in Afghan refugee camps and heard many stories like Parvana's. Its historical fiction. This book cover attracts the reader by the picture which shows that the book based on a country like Afghanistan by the look of the girl clothes and the background like the desert. Parvana's journey is historical fiction and was published in 2002. The story set in Afghanistan where Taliban rules . Parvana is the main character in the novel, Parvana is a confident girl who never gives up hope. The main characters are Parvana and the Taliban. The supporting character are Hassan, Asif and Leila.
In the novel Parvana is the protagonist because when she was searching for her mother and siblings in war-ravaged Afghanistan. She traveled across
…show more content…
A boy tells her to go away or he willshoot her with a gun. Parvana doesn't think that the boy gas a gun. The boy comes out of his hiding place. He tells her that his name is Asif. Asif is a boy with one leg, who seems to enjoy annoying her, but who is afraid on his own and is really good to Hassan.
She also meet Leila. The climax is when Leila dies because she runs into the Minefield to collect food parcels dropped by the airplane. Leila's father and brother went to war and her mother left one day to find them and never returned. She lives with her grandmother near a minefield. The grandmother has given up on life and just lies and sleeps all day.
This book has written by Deborah Ellis in 2002. Deborah Ellis has been in Afghan refugee camps and heard many stories like Parvana's. Its historical fiction? Green Valley is bombed and Leila's grandmother is killed. The children begin to travel again and they are starving . The children find a refugee camp. Parvana is reunited with her mother .
Parvana’s journey is historical fiction and was published in 2002. The story set in Afghanistan where Taliban rules

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    In the novel Parvana by Deborah Ellis there were many characters who were affected by the war in Afghanistan and one of them is Parvana. Parvana had many experiences some of them were cruelty of war, cruelty of the Taliban, the discrimination against women and friendship.…

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Some of the courageous and brave things Parvana did was going to the prison with her mother to rescue father, fight with one of the Talibs to save her mother’s life and disguising herself as a boy to support her family.…

    • 163 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Aparna is a traditional Bengali housewife that had been transplanted to the United States. When the story begins, the reader can’t help but to feel sorry for the loneliness that Aparna must be feeling. She is in a country which thrives on a culture that is very different from the one which she is familiar with. Her husband is engulfed by his work and Aparna is left to entertain herself daily. She has few friends in the United States and nothing to occupy her time. Lahiri writes “…I would return from school and find my mother with her purse in her lap and her trench coat on, desperate to escape the apartment where she had spent the day alone.” As the plot continues, the reader is given hope…

    • 893 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Kite Runner Summary

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The story opens in pre-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan. The protagonist, Amir, is recalling events from his childhood. He lived a lavish life with his father, Baba, and their servant, Ali and his son Hassan. Hassan and Amir grew up together and were almost like brothers, however Ali and Hassan belonged to the religious minority group, the Shias, and Baba and Amir, Sunni Muslims, superior. The different religious sects made it difficult for the boys to be real friends, despite their many character similarities and personal connection to one another. Hassan and Amir had a lot in common, such as the fact that they both grew up without a mother. Though they were raised with different beliefs, they were brought up together, and spent their entire childhoods making memories with each other.…

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Deborah Ellis’ novel Parvana, Parvana and her family struggle to live under the harsh rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Parvana becomes an increasingly aware adolescent as she attempts to meet challenges. Parvana demonstrates emerging maturity when she dresses up as a boy, acknowledges the realities of life in Afghanistan and begins to willingly collect water without being asked.…

    • 533 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Imagine the experience of living under the rule of a violent group of terrorists, with no freedom whatsoever. This is what it is like to Najmah in the book Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. In this realistic setting, Najmah, the main character, loses most of her family due to the brutality and imposition of the Taliban. The novel depicted the Taliban as dangerous and strict, which is interchangeable for what the Taliban is like in reality. Staples used the Taliban conflict to deepen the reader's understanding of the impact of conflict on people's lives.…

    • 680 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Hazaras In The Kite Runner

    • 1321 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The relentless Pashtuns constructed a tough life on the Hazaras as can be seen in the Kite Runner, but some seemed to still gather happiness with the little freedom they had. Once the Taliban came to power the most gruesome days of the Hazaras had just become, as everyone feared for their life. The present life of a Hazara and potential they are granted is only something dreamed of during their darkest years. The relationship between Pashtuns and Hazaras has now been remolded into a life lived with each other, in further equality then ever experienced…

    • 1321 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    After Amir receives a call from Rahim Khan informing him that Hassan has a son named Sohrab, Amir takes this as a possible chance to redeem his childhood mistakes. Amir goes back to his jarring homeland of Afghanistan to search for Sohrab and eventually is lead to a Taliban official. This officer happens to be Assef, the bully of Hassan who raped him in his childhood. Amir tentatively and bravely approaches him in hopes to make a deal and bring Sohrab to safety. Assef starts brutally beating Amir and releases a feeling Amir has not felt in a while. The feeling uncomfortably excites Amir as he “doesn’t know when [Amir] starts laughing, but [Amir] did...The harder [Amir] laughs, the harder [Assef] kicks, punches, and scratches. ‘WHAT’S SO FUNNY?’…

    • 229 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Mosaic 1 Essay

    • 1268 Words
    • 3 Pages

    A Thousand Splendid Suns is a book for the women of Afghanistan, as the author Khalid Hosseini indicates at the beginning of the book. It is a story about two Afghan women who suffered from war, poverty and violence. It is all about their sorrow, pain and their fate of oppression. Through the stories of its female protagonists, Laila and Mariam, Hosseini exposes the suffering of women in Afghanistan under fundamentalist Islamic governments. Many other characters in the novel such as Laila’s teacher Khala and her father characters also raise the comments on the equivalent status of men and women. The rights and roles of women from lower social status in Afghanistan is a key theme throughout the novel. There are a thousand splendid suns behind the wall of Kabul, there are also a thousand Miriams in Afghanistan who are oppressed.…

    • 1268 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Under The Persimmon Tree

    • 1010 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In everyday life in Afghanistan, people live in constant fear due to a group of terrorists. The novel, Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples, demonstrates the cruel truths of life in Afghanistan. The book follows two girls, Najmah and Nusrat as they are faced with tough challenges everyday that will alter their lives forever. The Taliban impact the everyday lives of people worldwide in an awfully negative way, and the book accurately proves this to be true by following Najmah and Nusrat.…

    • 1010 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Parvana

    • 900 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The novel Parvana is set in Afghanistan and shows the difficult life of a family, who live in a war torn country. The family in focus consists of Parvana, Mrs Weera and Nooria. The members became distraught as their father was taken from their house by the Taliban, a violent religious military group. This meant that they had to change their ways to survive without him. First the Taliban had taken over their city, Kabul, then they took one of their parents and slowly the family was losing Mother as well. After Father was taken Mother became distressed and could no longer cope without him. Parvana and the women in her family had to become risk takers to live. Echoing in her ears were the words her father said to her as he was pulled away from the house, “Take care of the others, my little Malali.”…

    • 900 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Kite Runner

    • 1524 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The story begins in Afghanistan in the 1970s and spans over 20 years. It is told from the perspective of Amir, a rich Afghani boy who lives with his father and their Hazara (low caste Shi'a) servants. Amir, an only child, spends much of his childhood with Hassan, the son of his father's loyal servant Ali and also the best "kite runner" in Kabul. The boys grow up as brothers despite the social differences, but this relationship is put to the test after an important kite flying tournament. Amir is overwhelmed with guilt when he allows Hassan to be beaten and raped on the day of the tournament. He lies to have Hassan accused of theft so he will leave their home and Amir can try to forget his guilt. Amir and his father flee to America to escape the Russian…

    • 1524 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Deborah Ellis has made the story Parvana to be hopeful and optimistic not about fear even during the terrible things they face. Parvana’s father gets arrested and her mother becomes depressed. She needs to support the family by herself at the small age of eleven for her family and her to survive. “Your feet will survive but we won’t if you don’t get us food. Now move!” She wants to argue but knows that if she doesn’t do it her family will die. “Instead of turning back, she took the money from her sister’s hand.” Parvana has a lot of hope in the book. “We’ll meet again on the first day of spring twenty years from now.” Deborah Ellis uses Parvana to educate the reader about the life in Afghanistan. Parvana and her family are an example of all the families in Afghanistan.…

    • 417 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Essay on Boyoverboard

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The character of Jamal’s mother shows the effect of freedom and oppression through her daily life as a woman in Afghanistan. This is shown through the quote “Girls playing soccer is a crime. I say. Almost as big as mum and dad running an illegal school.” This quote shows how Jamal’s mother is running an illegal school as the government does not allow women to become teachers. This is shown through the restrictions she faces which the government have made rules. The book has shown the reader what life is like for the women living in Afghanistan and how harsh the government are towards women. It has also shown the reader how very little rites women have and how many rites men have compared to women.…

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Texts often give us an insight into aspects of different cultures. The novel Parvana by Deborah Ellis explores various facets of the Afghani culture. One of the prominent features of this text is the impact of war. In addition, Ellis looks into the treatment of women in Afghanistan. Another point that is examined in the text is the Afghani food and clothing. To illustrate these aspects, the author has used a large range of provocative techniques and ideas.…

    • 906 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays