Preview

Similarities Between Najmah And Nusrat

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1615 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Similarities Between Najmah And Nusrat
(AGG) During time of war in the village Golestan, Afghanistan a girl named Najmah and in the village Peshawar, Pakistan a girl named Nusrat both have many similarities as they go through conflicts throughout this story. (BS-1) Najmah, her mother Mada-jan, and her father Baba-jan go through many physical conflicts during this war. (BS-2) Nusrat and Najmah also go through many emotional conflicts during their travels of war. (BS-3) Despite the fact war puts a negative effect on these people, it also has a positive message as they move along. (TS) Najmah and Nusrat have many similar conflicts that other people witness during time of war.

(MIP-1) Many characters throughout the book in Under the persimmon Tree go through physical conflicts during
…show more content…
“This maybe our last water until we get to Torkum” (89). Without food it’s hard to stay physically healthy and it’s a struggle to get to places without food to supply you energy many people go through this as refugees because there is not much food near them. (STEWE-2) Najmah goes through a physical conflict where she has very poor clothing on to protect her body from the snow and rock “we walk through the snow and rock and I feel the ice crystals between the soles of my feet and the soles of the sandals”(110). Najmah struggling to get through the icy snow and rocks with the sandals not even covering her feet and the loose baggy clothing she is …show more content…
(SIP-A) Najmah perseveres through many physical and emotional conflicts in the book and she comes out a better stronger person. (STEWE-1) Najmah goes through conflict when her father is taken from her and Mada-jan. “I hear the pickup trucks leave, but I am struggling with Mada-jan and cannot see them”(18). Nur and Baba-jan are taken by the Taliban and are left to survive by themselves. (STEWE-2) No matter the challenge Najmah will go through it, to reunite with her family in the Kunduz hills. “I must pretend to be Shaheed if I am to look for my father and brother in Peshawar”(150). Najmah has learned to move on in war, for she is persevering to find her brother and father while she is stuck in a refugee camp. (STEWE-3) Najmah feels as if she has come out stronger after war “I am afraid of nothing not after what I’ve seen”(150). Najmah has gone through tough times in this war but this doesn't stop, as she says she “un-feared” and she will continue on no matter what. (SIP-B) Nusrat goes through many emotional conflicts through the death of Faiz and Margaret but she recovers back and stronger and more wise person. (STEWE-1) When Nusrat is a kid her sister Elaine died from a sickness.“but she thinks of Margaret almost every day”(23). Nusrat has a very hard time letting go of Margaret when she died Nusrat never bonded with another human soul this was a huge

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    1-Brief overview about the chapters: In Woomera Najaf is depressed because he is alone and feels isolated. He doesn’t understand why he doesn’t get instant citizenship and is put into a detention centre. He tells the story of when his house blew up and people died. Reflecting on his old life and kinds of things he had to deal with every day in Afghanistan. He is sad because people died.…

    • 279 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    (SIP-A) She makes the decision to change her religion. (STEWE-1) She decides this for herself, not for Faiz, “Nusrat converted to Islam before she and Faiz even discussed marriage...The idea struck her the first time she entered Faiz’s apartment…” (Staples 134). Meeting Faiz changes her because she wanted what she saw in Faiz. (STEWE-2) Also, Nusrat wanted to know why God would take Margaret away from her, “After her sister's death Elaine began a quest for meaning" (Staples 134). She is lost, angry, and confused. She doesn't understand why the one and only God she trusted, took one of the most important people in her life away from her. However, it has also helped her to learn faith and combine faith with science and math. (SIP-B) After meeting Faiz, she looks at life in a new way and begins to find out more about herself. (STEWE-1) She begins to know what she wants in life: “What she longed for was the kind of peace and assurance that radiated from Faiz" (Staples 136). The loss of Margaret caused her to feel detached from her society, family, and friends. When she stepped into Faiz’s apartment, she felt that peace that she had been longing for. (STEWE-2) She wanted a religion that would be compatible with her own lifestyle, “‘I am a mathematician,’ she said. ‘I need a religion that’s compatible with science and mathematics… ‘Islam is the cradle of modern mathematics and astronomy,’ the imam said” (Staples 137). She…

    • 1190 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Najmah Quotes

    • 1339 Words
    • 6 Pages

    (AGG) The book Under The Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples is a great book to show how one can be affected by loss, and how loss shapes someone for better or for worse. (BS-1) When Baba-Jan and Nur were kidnapped by the Taliban, Najmah became much more responsible, mature, and helpful around the house. (BS-2) When Najmah became a boy in the form of Shaheed, she learned to adapt to her surroundings and use what she had. (BS-3) After Najmah finally reunited with Nur, she became very determined yet mentally sound. (TS) Najmah was shaped by loss in 3 different ways due to 3 different losses, in the fact that she became more responsible and grown up, learned to adapt, and was very determined yet mentally sound after everything she had been…

    • 1339 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    their stories. The audience sees the different roles of women, life under Taliban rule and how…

    • 83 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Loss Of Najmah Quotes

    • 1361 Words
    • 6 Pages

    (SIP 1)Her focus on finding the remainder of her family takes her out of shock. (STEWE 1)When traveling through the mountain, a plan was forming in her head to go to Peshawar to find her family. “Without realizing it, the entire time we've been on the way from Kunduz to the Pakistani border, a plan has been forming in my head. I am barely able to keep from jumping up and running off into the night” (Staples 131). While she was traveling, the thought of finding her family brought her back and out of the shock. (SIP 2)Loss also drives her through the mountain after the loss of Mada Jan and Habib. (STEWE 1)While Najmah was traveling through the mountain, her number one focus was to find Baba Jan and Nur since she had no one else. That was a big driving force for Najmah and it really inspired her to go over the mountains and to Peshawar. ”But It will be very sad without mother and Habib. But if I cannot find Baba Jan and Nur in Peshawar, I will wait for them in Kunduz, where I am prepared to fight for what belongs to my family. This plan fires in my heart” (Staples 151). This is the first sign we see of Najmah regaining hope and wanting to travel. It is all because loss is driving her to do this and she would do anything to find Baba Jan and Nur.(STEWE 2)Najmah makes the decision to put her life on the line to get to Peshawar and find them. She was dressed as a boy, and in that part of the world girls are very discriminated against and if she was found out to be a girl, the consequences would be unbearable. “The malek and the truck driver shout at each other some more, and I lower myself from the branch onto the canvas and drop to my stomach” (155). The reason she put her life in so much danger, is because her focus was on finding them. Not only was she dressed as a boy, but she was lying and ventured out while really being a…

    • 1361 Words
    • 6 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
  • Good Essays

    Brent Staples Sparknotes

    • 1662 Words
    • 7 Pages

    ‘Especially if you have an enemy there’” (Staples 211). Najmah wants to return home to her family’s farm. But Nusrat tries to tell her that if she is alone in the village, her uncle will probably do something harmful to her. Nusrat just wants Najmah to have a safe home.…

    • 1662 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cause Of Najmah Conflict

    • 492 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Following the loss of her mother and baby brother Najmah, traveling with Akhtar and Khalida, begins the trip to Peshawar, Pakistan. During the trip Najmah admits that she "[has] not once on [the] journey" (Staples 87-88). This silence that has developed from her disconnection from others causes Najmah to become silent, resulting in the man vs. self conflict of her inability to communicate. (SIP-B) Her inability to sympathize or experience emotions and her inability to communicate verbally drive the conflict of her inability to connect with others. (STEWE-1) Her inability to sympathize is directly connected to her inability to connect with others through her not being able to have feelings for others. This causes Najmah to become antisocial, as without feeling anything towards others she never gets to know them on a personal level. Infact, she resists this connection. When she finally reaches Torkhum, even with all that Akhtar and Khalida have given to her, "[she] feels [she] must keep [her] distance from Akhtar and Khalida" (Staples 151). This lack of feeling leads to the man vs. self conflict of her inability to connect, which can be traced to the source in PTSD. (STEWE-2) Likewise, her silence yields…

    • 492 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Najmah Character Analysis

    • 815 Words
    • 4 Pages

    (MIP-1) When Najmah loses her family, her personality very much develops and changes. (SIP-A) When Najmah loses Baba-Jan and Nur, Najmah becomes much more mature and develops more realistic fears, rather than her silly and childish fears she had once had. (STEWE-1) Before Najmah lost her family, she was very afraid of leopards, although she knows they don't live where she is. “My heart hammers, and I want to run back to the house, but I know Mada-jan will be angry. I turn and run as fast as I can, all the way to the woodpile. There I spread my shawl on the ground and pile several different armloads of wood on top. I feel a tingling along my spine the whole time. I think I see yellow eyes gleaming in the dark to the side of the woodpile. I’m…

    • 815 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Loss Of Najmah

    • 319 Words
    • 2 Pages

    (MIP-1)The loss of her mother and baby brother affected Najmah in a behavioral way, not physical. (SIP-A)Najmah is in a state of shock that were caused by the loss of Mada-Jan and Habib. (STEWE-1)After experiencing the loss of Mada-Jan and Habib she feels like she has no point to live anymore because every family member of hers has been taken by the Taliban. “I don't care whether the Taliban find me and kill me” (83). Najmah is feeling hopeless now because she has no family left and no one to take care of her or even cares about her. (STEWE-2)Najmah was forced to dress as a boy and didn’t have any other choice. By dressing as boy Najmah has thrown away her old self and now becoming a new person.”You will be safer dressed as a boy traveling…

    • 319 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Stolen Lives

    • 1493 Words
    • 6 Pages

    “NUJOOD ALI WAS A GIRL WITH THE AMBITION OF ONE DAY BECOMING A DOCTOR. HER DREAMS WERE HALTED ABRUPTLY AND HER TROUBLES STARTED WHEN SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF SCHOOL AND MARRIED OFF TO A MAN OVER TWICE HER AGE. HER HUSBAND BEAT AND RAPED HER CONTINUOUSLY, BUT A DETERMINATION WITHIN HER PROMPTED HER TO ESCAPE TO A COURT HOUSE, WHERE SHE DEMANDED FOR THE JUDGE TO GIVE HER AN ANNULMENT. NAJOOD WAS 10 WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED OFF AND 10 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE SAID “NO” AND SURVIVED.”…

    • 1493 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Fly Away Peter

    • 654 Words
    • 3 Pages

    <br>This idea of a countenance between the peaceful world of the sanctuary and the the chaotic world of war is one adapted by many, and with good reason. Through his novel, Malouf seeks to convey to the reader various themes. This is cleverly done in a number of ways, just one of which is this juxtaposition of the relationship between Imogen, Ashley and Jim and how it represents a peaceful world, and the 'despair created by war', its destructive nature and the effect it has on the world.…

    • 654 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Secrets in the Fire

    • 428 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Young readers will be drawn to this story because of the vivid picture it creates of a violent, war-torn world which they know exists but which they struggle to even imagine. This book presents the stark reality of what life can be like for young people growing up in a country where extreme poverty and bloody wars make their lives into a constant struggle for survival.…

    • 428 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    - The voices that represent aspects of old and new Afghanistan (Assef - Taliban, Farid - How Afghanistan used to be)…

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    As the novel is written as diary by the author so the story moves forward by the dates .The author started to entry her writing from 1st of March . From the the begining the author seemed to be well conscious about the facts of Bangladesh liberation movement and it's legal cause and background . Her story rotates around her family and they were not less conscious about the facts of liberation movement .The author and her husband 'Sharif' had two sons named 'Rumi' and 'Jami' .Rumi was just admitted to a engineering college in Illinois, America during that time and Jami was a student of class ten .Rumi was so much politically conscious and broad minded than his age on the other hand Jami was as a younger version of Rumi.…

    • 1747 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays

Related Topics