Under The Persimmon Tree Character Analysis

Imagine not having to wake up to the sound of your alarm. Instead you are woken up to the sound of gunfire and explosions. Houses once filled with happy families and children who hoped and dreamed for things. With the pull of a clip or a trigger, a single or multiple lives are ended or changed forever without remorse from the attacker themselves. Mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters all lost to the Taliban but never forgotten to those who live through it. Now we look into the lives of characters in the historical fiction novel Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples. In the book Under the Persimmon Tree the overall treatment of people by the Taliban was just barely scratching the surface of what it is really like in real life. In the book Staples portrays the Taliban notorious for being cruel to people, when in reality, they are much worse. Staples uses the experiences of people affected by the Taliban to show the impact of conflict on people's lives

In the book Under the Persimmon Tree the author Suzanne Fisher Staples shows how cruel the Taliban can be. With the murdering, stealing, and ruining lives, Najmah’s life is ruined by the Taliban when they take her father and brother. “‘To repay us for having helped our enemy, you must come and fight with the Taliban.’” (Page 17). Because the Taliban has taken most of her family, Najmah’s
Take Malala Yousafzai for example, a women's right activist born in Pakistan. As a young girl, Malala defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls would be allowed the right to an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman but survived. There were many death threats against Malala even though the only thing that she was doing was standing up for the people that believed in the same thing she did, a right to education for not just women and children, but anyone that was denied