Chapter One
How has Taliban-rule affected life in Afghanistan? Consider:
Treatment of women: All the girls and women weren’t allowed to go to education, work or go out. Women wasn’t allow to earn money.
Dress codes: Women weren’t allowed to show their skin at all. Man needed to grow their beard.
War: Bomb fell everywhere, many people died
Living condition: Houses for Afghanistan people got smaller and smaller since the bomb destroyed their houses.
Education and literacy: Womens are not allowed to go to school. Book was destroyed by Talibans.
Provide quotes to support your answer
What have we learnt about the life of Parvana and her family?
Parvana has a big family, she has an elder brother who was already dead, elder sister, 5 years old sister and a baby brother.Her parents were kicked out of their jobs, father worked as a teacher, he lost one of his leg during the bomb and mother was a writer. Pavana went to the market with her father every day because he couldn’t walk without her.
What voice is the story written in? From whose point of view is the story told?
This story is basically about parvana’s family told by third person at parvana’s point of view. We can tell this from the first sentence of this book. “I can read that letter as well as father can.”
Chapter Two
Copy and complete this chart about Parvana’s family:
Read the story that Parvana’s father tells about Malali (pg. 29-31). What purpose does Parvana’s father have for telling this story?
He wants Parvana to be like Malali.
What is the significance of Parvana’s father calling Parvana “my Malali” as the Taliban drags him out of the house (pg. 33)?
Malali is a brave girl from afghanistan, father thinks Parvana is as brave as Malali.
What does this chapter (and in particular, the story of Malali) indicate about power and authority?
This chapter tells us that a little child like Malali has the power to persuade people.
Parvana’s father says, “there are many types of battles.” What does he mean by this? What does this say about power and authority?
There are really small battles and very big battles like war
Chapter Three
What do we learn about the Taliban on pg 40? How does this challenge our ideas of power and authority?
Most of the taliban aren’t educated.
Parvana and her mother take a photograph of her father with them as they search for him. What does this photo represent in the life of Afghanistan people (pg 42)? What happens to the photograph at the end of the chapter?
Photographs are illegal in Afghanistan because photos are able to person identify people easier.
The photograph was teared by the taliban at the end.
What is the significance of the last lines of the chapter? What does it communicate about the idea of strength?
From the last two sentence show how strong Pavana is she were able to support her mother away from prison.
yuyu0802 