Loss Of Najmah Quotes

Everyone changes when loved ones are lost, but for Najmah, It affected her heavily, and shaped her actions. Loss effects Najmah heavily in the beginning of the book and builds her character. Loss takes Najmah out of shock and is a driving force for her. Loss also shapes the life changing decisions she makes at the end of the book. Najmah has been affected and shaped by loss many times throughout the book. (MIP)Loss affects Najmah many ways in the beginning of the book. (SIP 1) When she lost Baba Jan and Nur, it affected her heavily. (STEWE 1)At first, she was an innocent little girl that sat back and basically did nothing. “Get up sleepy one,’ she says. ‘It's time to light the fire! (Staples 3). In the beginning, Baba Jan and Nur were
(SIP 1)Her focus on finding the remainder of her family takes her out of shock. (STEWE 1)When traveling through the mountain, a plan was forming in her head to go to Peshawar to find her family. “Without realizing it, the entire time we've been on the way from Kunduz to the Pakistani border, a plan has been forming in my head. I am barely able to keep from jumping up and running off into the night” (Staples 131). While she was traveling, the thought of finding her family brought her back and out of the shock. (SIP 2)Loss also drives her through the mountain after the loss of Mada Jan and Habib. (STEWE 1)While Najmah was traveling through the mountain, her number one focus was to find Baba Jan and Nur since she had no one else. That was a big driving force for Najmah and it really inspired her to go over the mountains and to Peshawar. ”But It will be very sad without mother and Habib. But if I cannot find Baba Jan and Nur in Peshawar, I will wait for them in Kunduz, where I am prepared to fight for what belongs to my family. This plan fires in my heart” (Staples 151). This is the first sign we see of Najmah regaining hope and wanting to travel. It is all because loss is driving her to do this and she would do anything to find Baba Jan and Nur.(STEWE 2)Najmah makes the decision to put her life on the line to get to Peshawar and find them. She was dressed as a boy, and in that part of the world girls are very discriminated against and if she was found out to be a girl, the consequences would be unbearable. “The malek and the truck driver shout at each other some more, and I lower myself from the branch onto the canvas and drop to my stomach” (155). The reason she put her life in so much danger, is because her focus was on finding them. Not only was she dressed as a boy, but she was lying and ventured out while really being a