(AGG) Najmah is this young girl who got most of her family taken away from her, and she has learned to live with what she has, but what would you do if you had a life like hers? (BS-1) Najmah's shape changes from being a innocent child to being a mature child that has grown up before she was supposed to. After Baba-Jan and Nur leave with the Taliban, Najmah grows up to think and act like a adult. (BS-2) Najmah’s shape after becoming a boy and striving her way to her goal, which is that she has hope to find Baba-Jan and Nur in Peshawar, which takes her many ways farther than she suppose to. (BS-3) Najmah comes to her final decision in many ways of going back to Kunduz. (TS) Najmah loses many family members and Najmah is shaped by the loss of
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I feel a tingling along my spine the whole time. I think I see yellow eyes gleaming in the dark to the side of the woodpile. I'm sure I hear a low growl” (Staples 6). This shows how Najmah is a innocent girl that is afraid of leopards and she hasn't seen things that will make her become someone that isn't afraid of leopards. She is a little girl who hasn't learned the stuff that happens every day in her part of the world. We don’t see the things that she has seen such as bombings, killings and many other things that she has had to face as a young child. (STEWE-2) Najmah doesn't feel brave and isn't this strong girl yet that hasn’t found her true self before everything happens, “‘You are a good and brave girl,’ she says, stroking my face. I don't feel brave, but I don't trust my voice to speak, and so I nod as I did to baba-Jan” (Staples 9). (SIP-2) Najmah is this weak girl before the losses of her family, but after she feels brave and confident in herself, which is like her finding herself. After Baba-Jan and Nur leave, Mama-Jan starts crying and cries for 3 days, so …show more content…
(SIP-1) Najmah losses all hope after the death of her mother and Habib, and so she stops talking because she thinks that it is protecting her from people finding out that she is a girl even though she is dressing up as a boy named Shaheed. (STEWE-1) Najmah is in shock after the bombing which causes, “It isn't until the first tinge of light shows on the horizon that I realize the hole where Akhtar has buried my hair also holds my mother and baby brother. I look back over my shoulder at the path we've ridden all through the night. But they are far, far behind us, and I realize I will never see them again. This is showing how Najmah becomes this sad figure that doesn't want to never see her mother and Habib again, and that she is in shock after the bombing, which will soon affect her even more” (Staples 85). (STEWE-2) Najmah starts to talk again after Nusrat finds out that she is a girl, “‘Najmah,’ she whispers. ‘My name is Najmah’. Nusrat sits for a few moments, giving Najmah time to balm herself. Then she leans forward and takes one of Najmah's hands softly; ‘such a beautiful name’. Najmah nods her head several times and pulls away her hand… ‘And tell me where your father and Nur are’ says Nusrat. Najmah's face crumples like the paper that sits so delicate and insubstantial on the table beside them” (Staples 195).
I feel a tingling along my spine the whole time. I think I see yellow eyes gleaming in the dark to the side of the woodpile. I'm sure I hear a low growl” (Staples 6). This shows how Najmah is a innocent girl that is afraid of leopards and she hasn't seen things that will make her become someone that isn't afraid of leopards. She is a little girl who hasn't learned the stuff that happens every day in her part of the world. We don’t see the things that she has seen such as bombings, killings and many other things that she has had to face as a young child. (STEWE-2) Najmah doesn't feel brave and isn't this strong girl yet that hasn’t found her true self before everything happens, “‘You are a good and brave girl,’ she says, stroking my face. I don't feel brave, but I don't trust my voice to speak, and so I nod as I did to baba-Jan” (Staples 9). (SIP-2) Najmah is this weak girl before the losses of her family, but after she feels brave and confident in herself, which is like her finding herself. After Baba-Jan and Nur leave, Mama-Jan starts crying and cries for 3 days, so …show more content…
(SIP-1) Najmah losses all hope after the death of her mother and Habib, and so she stops talking because she thinks that it is protecting her from people finding out that she is a girl even though she is dressing up as a boy named Shaheed. (STEWE-1) Najmah is in shock after the bombing which causes, “It isn't until the first tinge of light shows on the horizon that I realize the hole where Akhtar has buried my hair also holds my mother and baby brother. I look back over my shoulder at the path we've ridden all through the night. But they are far, far behind us, and I realize I will never see them again. This is showing how Najmah becomes this sad figure that doesn't want to never see her mother and Habib again, and that she is in shock after the bombing, which will soon affect her even more” (Staples 85). (STEWE-2) Najmah starts to talk again after Nusrat finds out that she is a girl, “‘Najmah,’ she whispers. ‘My name is Najmah’. Nusrat sits for a few moments, giving Najmah time to balm herself. Then she leans forward and takes one of Najmah's hands softly; ‘such a beautiful name’. Najmah nods her head several times and pulls away her hand… ‘And tell me where your father and Nur are’ says Nusrat. Najmah's face crumples like the paper that sits so delicate and insubstantial on the table beside them” (Staples 195).