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"I am a boy, she kept saying yo herself. It gave her courage." (chap 6)

This quote demonstrates that Parvana's sense of courage and resilience is manifested through believing she is a boy. The quote is highly relevant and relate to the theme of hope and resilience because in a nation where women are deemed as lower beings one's source of courage would be through an identity that defies the oppressed, a boy.

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Chapter 4 – page 54 – Resilience and Loyalty

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Chapter 4 – page 54 – Resilience and Loyalty

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“I am not going out there.” (Parvana)

“You have to go. There is no one else who can go” (Nooria)

“My feet are still sore.”

“Your feet will survive, but we won’t if you don’t get us food. Now move!”

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“Am I travelling as your son or your daughter?” Parvana asked father. “ You decide, either way you will be my little Malali.” Her father does not care who she is and she can decide who she want to be in life if it’s to be a boy or a girl. page 166

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“Men would walk by, look down at her and keep walking. She wished she had her chador to hide behind. She was certain at any moment someone would stop, point to her, and yell “Girl!”

Yet she keeps walking to the market place and undertakes her first job reading letters for men in the marketplace. Even though she is afraid of getting caught, she faces her fear and does it anyway.

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"We have to remember this," Parvana said. "When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat."

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Shauzia

"In every picture I've seen of France, the sun is shining, people are smiling, and flowers are blooming"

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"They don't stay there forever," Mrs. Weera said. "They get up again, and they fight back."

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"I don't want to quit yet. Shauzia and I want to buy trays, and sell things from the trays. I can follow the crowd that way, instead of waiting for the crowd to come to me. I can make more money."  - Page 118, 2nd line

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Parvana laughed.

"I'll be there," she said. "We won't say goodbye, then. We'll just say so long for now,"

This quote shows how the girls still believe that there is a chance of them meeting in the unknown future.

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"No, no, not dead. They may look scraggly and dying now," he said, "but the roots are good. When the time is right, these roots will support plants that are healthy and strong." He gave the earth a final pat, and Parvana and one of the others helped him up. He smiled once more at Parvana, then walked away. (15.58-15.59)

The quote in this scene was the old man giving Parvana hope that her plant was fine even though it looked like it was dead.

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"They don't stay there forever," Mrs. Weera said. "They get up again, and they fight back." Mrs Weera said. "They get up again, and they fight back."

This quote is when Mrs Weera gives Parvana hope that her mother and siblings are okay after she found out that Mazar was captured by the Taliban.

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There were a lot of false legs for sale in the market now. Since the Taliban decreed that women must stay inside, many husbands took their wives’ false legs away. “You’re not going anywhere, so why do you need a leg?” they asked.

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"As more and more hair fell away, Parvana began to feel like a different person"

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"This is what the women in our family do when we're sad," she said to Mrs. Weera.

"They don't stay there forever," Mrs. Weera said. "They get up again, and they fight back." (14.50-14.52)

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"i am Malali, leading the troops through enemy territory"

Parvana says to this encourage herself to bring her and Homa back to Parvana's house

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"The lesson here, my Daughter," he looked from one to the other, "is that Afghanistan has always been the home of the bravest woman in the world. You are all brave woman. You are inheritors of the courage of Malali."

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"Afghans love beautiful things," he said, "but we have seen so much ugliness, we sometimes forget how wonderful a thing like a flower is." - Page 165, Lines 3-4

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"That's no way to keep up team spirit" Mrs Weera said. "Nooria, why don't you get the little ones washed for dinner. Use cold water. We'll let this first batch of boiled water be for drinking". This quote shows that Mrs Weera is trying to give them 'hope' that everything will get better as long as they work together and think.

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Parvana couldn't sleep. She could hear her mother and Nooria tossing and turning as well. She imagined every single noise to be either Father or the Taliban coming back. Each sound made Parvana hopeful and fearful at the same time. (3.5)

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Are they dead?" Parvana asked.

"No, no, not dead. They may look scraggly and dying now," he said, "but the roots are good. When the time is right, these roots will support plants that are healthy and strong." He gave the earth a final pat, and Parvana and one of the others helped him up. He smiled once more at Parvana, then walked away. (15.58-15.59)

This quote is a very good example of hope as well as symbolising hope through a flower. When the old man in the quote states that "No, no, not dead. They may look scraggly and dying now", and in the following sentence he explains "but the roots are good. When the time is right, these roots will support plants that are healthy and strong.", he is inferring that no matter how damaged a flower looks to be, as long as the root is strong enough to support the flower, it will thrive back. The flower is used as a symbolism for hope. IF flower is replaced with hope, it is implied that as long as one has hope no matter the situation, they will always be able to get through life's obstacles.

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"We have to remember this," Parvana said. "When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat."

they both hope that one day their life will change for the better and they will be able to live their dream life and when they have kids, they'll tell them about how at one point they had to dig up bones for a living.

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"Women were not allowed to go into the shops. Men were supposed to do all the shopping, but if women did it, they had to stand outside and call in for what they needed. Parvana had seen shopkeepers beaten for serving women inside their shops."

women barely have any rights anymore in Afghanistan

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"She wasn't supposed to be outside at all. The Taliban had ordered all the girls and women in Afghanistan to stay inside their homes. They even forbade girls to go to school. Parvana had had to leave her sixth grade class and her sister Nooria was not allowed to go to her high school. Their mother had been kicked out of her job as a writer for a Kabul radio station."

women and girls are forced to stay in their homes and cannot leave unless they have a male escort. they are also banned from working and going to school.

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""The lesson here, my daughters," he looked from one to the other, "is that Afghanistan has always been the home of the bravest women in the world. You are all brave women. You are all inheritors of the courage of Malali."

Courage is a Main theme in the story and it is shown everywhere. In this quote father is encouraging the daughters to be courageous by trying to be like Malali. Malali was a girl who led the charge to defeat the British soldiers in the past. In difficult situations, Parvana calls apon Malali to give her courage and help her face her problems and lead the way.

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