Under The Persimmon Tree Research Paper

How would it feel waking up to bombings and screams? imagine a world where you wake up hoping the previous day was just a nightmare and realizing it wasn't. This is how the Taliban is portrayed in the book Under the Persimmon Tree by, Susan Fisher Staples. One of the main characters, Najmah, is greatly impacted by the Taliban. These horrible people have destroyed her family by separating them and even killing some of them. The way the Taliban is portrayed in the book is similar to how it is in real life, the presentations showed that the Taliban is a group of people who are extremists.

In under the persimmon tree the Taliban are horrifying people. In the book the Taliban goes to Najmah's house and says " so your son wants fight? he says with a grin we want wheat and chickens and sugar the leader
Najmah had been through many things in the book the Taliban always had an impact on what she was going to do next. " I sit in the dirt besides them quietly, not crying ,not thinking ,not even aware that I am breathing. I must have sat for a long time although I have no recollection of the time passing" (62). If Najmah does not have a mother then she must go and travel alone to find her brother and father. This makes it harder for her because the Taliban ruined her family now she realizes that all of the things that her and her brother have seen shocking, "suddenly I realize that the things Nur and I have seen these past three months make us many ages older because the world we knew has come to an end" (252). Najmah soon turns to remember and think about her family "I retreat into thought of my father and brother wondering where they are wetsuit they have died or if the Taliban force them to kill people " (staples). These people have suffered through so much because of the Taliban they have had gruesome experiences and lost almost all their family