The Breadwinner: Analysis by OLIVIA ROSE KAPELL

Parvana

2023-10-25 21:15:26 UTC

She didn't want to think about everything the bombs had taken away, including her father's health and their beautiful home. It made her angry, and since she could do nothing with her anger, it made her sad. - Chap. 1, Pg. 15-16

Baby Maryam

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“Her mother gave in, laughing. Father laughed, too, and Parvana and baby Maryam, who didn't even know why she was laughing.“ Chap. 1, Pg. 17

Father

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father

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"father used to have a false leg, but he sold it" -chap. 1 pg 18

mother:

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"You shouldn't lie to the child," Mother had said - Chap. 1, pg 19

PERSONIFICATION- "the sound of the family's laughter scampered up Mount Parvana and back down into the street." ch 1 Pg.20 Jimena

jortiz175 — 2023-10-25 21:18:56 UTC

The Talibans

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"She had seen what they did, especially to women, the way they would whip and beat someone they thought should be punished" pg. 12

IRONY

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"You were such an ugly baby, the Soviets couldn't stand to be in the same country with you," - Chap. 1, Pg. 12

kabul

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"Kabul used to be beautiful" chap 1 pg 18

"The Taliban are not making Afghanistan a Kinder place to live!" Pg. 17

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Simile

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"Afghans cover the earth like stars cover the sky,"

Pg9

Nooria

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"What are you crying for?" she had asked Nooria, who couldn't stop sobbing. "I think a holiday is very nice." - Chap. 1, Pg. 11

Afghanistan

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"There had been a war going on in Afghanistan for more than twenty years". chap , pg 16.

Father

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He had lost the lower part of his leg when the high school he was teaching in was bombed. pag 12

Metaphor: "Parvana jumped to her feet, then collapsed back...." Ch 1. Pg.14 pdf book. Jimena

jortiz175 — 2023-10-25 21:29:48 UTC

"I give permission for my wife to be outside" she signed it with father's name.

dgarate2 — 2023-11-14 21:37:34 UTC

chap 3, pg 36

pg 21

johsanchez1 — 2023-11-14 21:41:28 UTC

"Men shopped for their families"

"The Taliban had ordered all windows painted over with black paint so that no one could see the women inside"

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Pg. 35, Chap. 2

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"Mother wasn't supposed to be out of her home without a man, or without a note from her husband."

- Chap 3, pg 36.

Nooria

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How can we be brave?" Nooria asked. "We can't even go

outside. How can we lead men into battle? I've seen enough

war. I don't want to see any more.

Pg 16

Talibans

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“Afghanistan needs more illiterate thugs like you”

Ch 2 Pg 30.

Simile

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“She held it up to Shauzia as though it were a trophy.” Chp. 10, Pg. 93.

Simile

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“It came out of the dirt as if it were a carrot being pulled up from a garden.” Cho. 10 Pg. 96

Simile

johsanchez1 — 2024-01-29 18:39:31 UTC

"He was holding up a rope strung with four severe hands, like beads on a necklace." Chap. 11, pag. 104

“I just have to get out of here. I know that makes me a bad person, but what else can I do? I’ll die if I have to stay here!” Chp. 12, pg. 108-109

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Personification

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“Summer had come to Kabul.” Chp. 12, pg. 111

Cliffhanger

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“Nooria’s getting married.” Chp. 12, pg. 114

Personification

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Flowers pushed up out of the ground, not caring about the Taliban...

chapter 12, pg.115.

Repetition

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"Sometimes"

chapter 12, pg. 116.

“Do you want to come with me?” … “We could look after each other” Chp. 12, pg. 109

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In the book, Shauzia is an example that going out of Afghanistan her life can be better and with that she can get better opportunities, like she said, "a normal boring life"

dgarate2 — 2024-01-31 20:17:39 UTC

"Parvana and I will be good company for each other," Mrs. Weera said

johsanchez1 — 2024-01-31 20:18:08 UTC

chap. 13, pg. 119

Ch. 13 Pg. 116

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“We can’t leave Kabul!” Parvana exclaimed. “what about father?” What will happen if he gets out of prisión and we’re not here? He won’t know where to look for us!”

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The book shows us what people do when they dont have more options, also the message is to have compassion of all the people who leave in afghanistan

Mother and Mrs Weera

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As a boy, you’ll be able to move in and out of the market. Its a perfect solution, Mrs. Weera said, you’ll be our cousin from Jalalabad.

Chapter 6 pg 61

We can understand by this sentence how Parvana is being brave by going alone outside, and surviving out there.

"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."

johsanchez1 — 2024-01-31 20:29:07 UTC

chap. 10, pag. 96

The Breadwinner

jortiz175 — 2024-01-31 20:33:08 UTC

Make concience in people about worldwide problems, and how people in other parts of the world are living and what they need to do for living. "We have nothing felt to sell. What parvana earns keeps us in a nan, rice and tea, but there's nothing extra. We need money for rent, for propane, for fuel for the lamps, If she can make money this way, and she's willling to do it, then i think she should be allowed". Ch 11. pg. 100 Jimena Ortiz

The Bredwinner

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The purpose of this book is to inform and persuade, this is because they explain how is the life of a Afghanistan woman.

"Do you think well still have to be boys in the spring? Thats a long time from now"

Pg.111 Chp. 11

Prarvan said this because she dressed as a boy so she can get money by selling adult stuff.

shauzia meets parvanas family

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"everyone embraced her as if she an old friend, even though parvana didnt think they had ever met before."

Dad in Prision

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In the movie parvana went to the prision for his dad but in the book his parent was released by 2 guys because he was too sick.

Ms. Weera and Shauzia

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In the book they were supposed to leave together to another city and in the movie Ms. Weera doesn’t even exist and Shauzia doesn’t want to leave the city.

ms weera

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in the book ms. weera is a very important character to the story, but in the movie she doesnt exist.

itai

Mazar

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In the book Nooria and the mother go to Mazar for Nooria’s wedding and then aparvaba and the father go there too but in the movie the mother and Nooria have no direction just as Parvana and her father.

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IB Students

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People outside Afghanistan

Parvana

johsanchez1 — 2024-02-08 18:20:10 UTC

In the book Parvana stays with mr. Weera, but in the movie Parvana went to the prison to look for his dad.

el camino students

dgarate2 — 2024-02-08 18:20:32 UTC

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People outside Afghanistan that want an entertaining way to get to know what is happeining around the world

Roberta

Nooria and Parvana

2024-02-08 18:22:48 UTC

In the book, Parvana and Nooria have a tough relationship, instead in the movie they have a softer relationship.

Ivonne y Sara

2024-02-08 18:23:08 UTC

In the book they went searching for bones and in the movie they went to search a type of red candy

Alejandro Y Sofia

2024-02-08 18:23:34 UTC

In the movie the mother and the sister scape from the Person that wanted to take theme were the sister was having the wedding

Alejandro and Sofia

2024-02-08 18:26:57 UTC

In the book the soccer stadium is an executed place, but in the movie there is no soccer stadium they executed them in the prison

Ivonne, Sara y Jimena

2024-02-08 18:27:59 UTC

In the book Parvana and the shazia went to the stadium to sell thinking it would be a soccer game but what it really happen there was a ejection in the middle of the soccer field showing everybody consequences of not following the rules. In the movie doesn't happened this.

Alejandro y Sofia

2024-02-08 18:30:13 UTC

In the movie they never found bones and in the book it said that parvana started to sell bones