Breadwinner Summary
Khanh Tran ESL 101
Mrs. Gibson
05/11/13
Challenges of life In life, everyone has a individual dream. If people want to achieve their goals, they have to surpass some particular obstacle on the way to their dream. The important point is not the end goal, but all the experiential lessons that are overcome on the way. We call that life. In the Breadwinner, written by Deborah Ellis, this story tells the reader about one little girl and her family’s struggles fighting against the Taliban, a group who want to make new rules in Afghanistan. Obviously, the Breadwinner shows that when life gets harder, people have to improve themselves. The readers can see this idea proven through the characters, the conflicts and the settings. The characters in the Breadwinner show that when life changes to be harder, people have to change themselves to be stronger. Two important examples are Parvana and Shauzia. They cut off their hair, wear boys’ clothes and go to the market place to earn money for their families’ living. Parvana’s job is to read, write and sell things while Shauzia works as a tea boy. At first, Parvana does not want to do her father’s work but then she she agrees and says, “All right, I’ll do it” (66). Even though they are still school aged, they have to struggle with a tough life to gain every single coin. Also, the readers can not deny the effort in buiding up a small secret school. Mrs. Weera knows the Taliban’s rule that girls can not go to school as well as that females must stay at home. Therefore, Mrs. Weera makes her own plan to build the school underground. She says, “A secret school, for a small number of girls, a few hours a week” (100). After making the plan, they do it, “Through mother’s and Mrs.Weera’s women’s group, a little secret school was started” (132). All of the continuous actions of Parvana, Shauzia, Mrs Weera and Pavana’s mother demonstrate that people must be much wiser to figure out a good plan to pass
Mrs. Gibson
05/11/13
Challenges of life In life, everyone has a individual dream. If people want to achieve their goals, they have to surpass some particular obstacle on the way to their dream. The important point is not the end goal, but all the experiential lessons that are overcome on the way. We call that life. In the Breadwinner, written by Deborah Ellis, this story tells the reader about one little girl and her family’s struggles fighting against the Taliban, a group who want to make new rules in Afghanistan. Obviously, the Breadwinner shows that when life gets harder, people have to improve themselves. The readers can see this idea proven through the characters, the conflicts and the settings. The characters in the Breadwinner show that when life changes to be harder, people have to change themselves to be stronger. Two important examples are Parvana and Shauzia. They cut off their hair, wear boys’ clothes and go to the market place to earn money for their families’ living. Parvana’s job is to read, write and sell things while Shauzia works as a tea boy. At first, Parvana does not want to do her father’s work but then she she agrees and says, “All right, I’ll do it” (66). Even though they are still school aged, they have to struggle with a tough life to gain every single coin. Also, the readers can not deny the effort in buiding up a small secret school. Mrs. Weera knows the Taliban’s rule that girls can not go to school as well as that females must stay at home. Therefore, Mrs. Weera makes her own plan to build the school underground. She says, “A secret school, for a small number of girls, a few hours a week” (100). After making the plan, they do it, “Through mother’s and Mrs.Weera’s women’s group, a little secret school was started” (132). All of the continuous actions of Parvana, Shauzia, Mrs Weera and Pavana’s mother demonstrate that people must be much wiser to figure out a good plan to pass