https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz Post an image or a quotation form the book that represents manhood in Afghanistan. You can also include quotations or images that relate to social and ethnic class as it affects ideas about manhood. en-us 2021-09-07 01:12:24 UTC 2021-09-09 14:51:13 UTC hello@padlet.com 3008773 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728152921 "And where is he headed?" Baba said. "A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything."]]> 2021-09-09 14:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728152921 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728162332 2021-09-09 14:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728162332 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728162504 "Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry books to hunting...well, that wasn’t how Baba had envisioned it...real men didn’t read poetry--and God forbid they should ever write it!” ]]> 2021-09-09 14:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728162504 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728162950 "Real men didn't read poetry and God forbid they should ever write it. Real mean, real boys played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young."]]> 2021-09-09 14:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728162950 3008781 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728163448 "A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything." (ch. 3, p.22) ]]> 2021-09-09 14:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728163448 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728166016 Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry books to hunting...well, that wasn't how Baba had envisioned it, I suppose. Real men didn't read poetry -- and God forbid they should ever write it! Real men -- real boys -- played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young.... He signed me up for soccer teams to stir the same passion in me. But I was pathetic, a blundering liability to my own team... And the harder I tried, ... the more I went ignored.]]> 2021-09-09 14:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728166016 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728168183 "Ali turned around, caught me aping him. He didn't say anything. Not then, not ever. He just kept walking"(8).]]> 2021-09-09 14:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728168183 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728169189 2021-09-09 14:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728169189 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728169943 "Lore has it my father wrestled a black bear in Baluchistan with his bare hands"]]> 2021-09-09 14:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728169943 3008773 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728175627 2021-09-09 14:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728175627 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728179787 "with me as the glaring exception, My father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that baba saw the black and white, And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You cant love a person who lives that way without fearing him too" ]]> 2021-09-09 14:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728179787 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728181276 'A man who takes what's not his to take, be it a life or loaf of naan. I spit on such a man.']]> 2021-09-09 14:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728181276 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728181340 "It was Rahim Khan who first referred to him as what eventually became Baba's famous nickname, Toophan agha or "Mr Huricane." (Page 12 chapter 3)

]]> 2021-09-09 14:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728181340 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728185681 “I have heard that Sanaubar’s suggestive stride and oscillating hips sent men to reveries if infidelity. But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with little in between except a paper-thin later of muscle.”
pg 8]]> 2021-09-09 14:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728185681 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728190322 “Real men, real boys play soccer”]]> 2021-09-09 14:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728190322 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728190640 2021-09-09 14:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728190640 3683052 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728194108 "I watched him swing his scraggy leg in a sweeping arc, watched his whole body tilt impossibly to the right as he planted a foot." (8)

]]> 2021-09-09 14:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728194108 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728200494 "A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything." I think this quote shows that in Afghanistan it is seen as manly to be strong emotionally.]]> 2021-09-09 14:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728200494 23022841 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728201221 "There is no act more wretched than stealing Amir," Baba said. "A man who takes what's not his to take, be it a life or a loaf of nann... I spit on such a man. And if I ever cross paths with him, God help him. Do you understand?" -Elvis

]]> 2021-09-09 14:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728201221 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728221270 'It was an apt enough nickname. My father was a force of nature, a towering Pashtun specimen with a thick beard, a wayward crop of curly brown hair as unruly as the man himself, hands that looked capable of uprooting a willow tree, and a black glare that would 'drop the devil to his knees begging for mercy,' as Rahim Khan used to say. At parties, when all six-foot-five of him thundered into the room, attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.']]> 2021-09-09 14:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728221270 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728256942 Baba is benefiting from being in the higher class because he gets so many bonuses from being there. For example he is able to study and not struggle to survive, unlike the lower class people.]]> 2021-09-09 14:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728256942 https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728295160 "Real men didn't read poetry and God forbid they should ever write it. Real mean, real boys played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young."]]> 2021-09-09 14:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dianamartinezrasekh/lbjvohgax60w39kz/wish/1728295160