Parvana's Struggle for Freedom in Afghanistan
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· The story is about a brave girl named Parvana.
11 years I lived in Afghanistan a while ago where the children went to
school and women to college but it didn't last long since
a coup d'état came and then the invasion began
civil war. Once the war was over, the empire decided that the
women could not go out or draw attention without necessity
A woman was shown to be cursed by Islamic law.
Parvana's family was poor; one day the girl's father is
taken to prison for being the enemy of Islam and teaching them to the
young people to study since in Afghanistan that was totally
forbidden therefore one morning Parvana and her mother
they decide to go out to protest for the arrest of her husband but
it seems that going out alone together didn't go as well as
they were waiting since women could not go out on the street without a
Man, since that was not appropriate, one morning the girl
decide to dress as a child in order to study and accepts to work
to be able to feed his mother and his brothers. One day his
mother tries to escape with her children to be able to leave that place
city but changes his mind and his two children take the
heading towards the road in search of his father and sister
to reunite again with his family and join them
again. The way they spoke was very different
since they called him Baba instead of calling him father besides all
that family spoke to each other with respect and were respectful to the
others regardless of the way they were treated. The
The moral of this movie is that we all deserve equality.
of gender and without promoting violence for being male or
woman, besides this story seemed very entertaining to me already
that talks a lot about the violence that exists in these
times against women for going out alone and not being
accompanied as they 'caught her attention' and were beaten.
brutally. It seemed appealing to me how it is assimilated the
literary writing.