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  1. Jun 2023
    1. Ithurt her to hear stories of old Kabul before thebombing. She didn't want to think about everythingthe bombs had taken away, including her father'shealth and their beautiful home. It made her angry,

      I can feel the desperation in her and the denial to go back to memory since it is too good to be ture.

  2. Apr 2023
    1. Dry your tears. Under such a circumstance, runningwas a very sensible thing to do. I always thought youhad the makings of a sensible girl, and you've justproven me right. Good for you!

      Mrs. Weera is a caring person. She conmforts Parvana to make her calm down.

    2. If Parvana lost track of hermother, she was afraid she'd never find her again

      This is sad, a child has a fear to lose her mother because all women on the street are wearing the same cloth

    3. She grabbed the arm of one of her mother'sattackers. He shook her off as if she were a fly.

      Talibans treated women and girls like they were week, helpless insects that can be ger rid of so easily

    4. Most of the Talibandon't know how to read

      Maybe that's the reason why Taliban ordered very unreasonable rules: They were not educated

    5. The only window in the room was a small one, highup on one wall. The Taliban had ordered all windows

      If I were required to live in such way, I would feel so sad, then angry, maybe try to find way to show my angry

    6. Seeing the pain in her mother's face, Parvana put heranger away and quietly helped get supper ready

      Parvana seems mature enough to understand the sarrow and knows she need to put her anger away to help first

    7. Nooria never goes for water, nor does Mother.Maryam doesn't, either. She doesn't have to doanything!

      This sounds very childish, like something a 11-year old will say.

    8. One of theconquerors, Tamerlane from Samarkand, cut off theheads of his enemies and stacked them in huge piles,like melons at a fruit stand.

      These words very vividly describs the brutel action and the sentense after these is very inspriing : kicked them all out!