Choose a short passage from your novel that made an impact on you as you read it, that made you stop and think maybe even say "Oh wow" to yourself. It may have made you stop and think because you made a personal connection. It may have made you wonder and ask a question. It may have made you react in some emotional way to the words on the paper. In your response, quote the passage and list the page number that it can be found on. Explain, in detail, why you chose this passage, what reason did you have that made you stop and think or had you reacting in some way. Include your feelings and emotions as well as state any connections you made (text to self, text to text, text to world). An example from another novel of how to start is this:
"Big signs were posted at the pool saying"No Jews or Dogs Allowed". pg 14
As I read this passage I couldn't believe that this could happen. How could the Jewish even be compared to dogs?"
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ReplyDelete"The Taliban had ordered all the girls and women in Afghanistan to stay inside their homes. They even forbade girls to go to school" Pg. 7
ReplyDeleteThis part made me have an "oh wow" moment because it really isn't fair that girls and women can't work or go to school or even outside their house. I bet any girl there would love to have a life like mine because I can go to school and outside my house. While I'm saying "I don't want to go to school" those girls would probably be dieing to go. It makes me very said knowing those girls wont get a proper education like mine because of the law.
@tweetybird
DeleteI agree with your Wow moment. In Canada we are lucky to have an education while in Afghanistan girls can't go to school. While we all say "I don't want to go to school." Afghan children say "I want to go to school."
"every time their house was bombed,they lost more of their things" page.13
ReplyDeletethat part made have a "oh wow" I think it's just sad because they got bomb so many time there house went from being a beautiful house with a car to a one room house with nothing in it.
@catface
ReplyDeleteI agree it was very sad what they had went through during the bombing. It changed their lives tremendously, they went from being a happy family living in a nice house to them all living in one room. I would be very sad if I was them. How would you feel if the same events happened to you?
@tweetybird
DeleteI would feel sacred i could not think of a world that you could get bombed almost every day for no good reason I mean why would you want to kill some or bomb a house filled with people Its just coruel.
The breadwinner is a great book! I read this book last year and i just couldn't put it down I think that everyone should this book along with the second and third of the series. I am very interested in the womans rights in places like Afghanistan and thought while reading this "Wow I am so lucky to be living where I am, where I can go to school, where i can be outside, and where I know that I can sleep at night without being bombed. Even though women in some house holds are still treated with less respect we are very lucky here in Canada.
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DeleteI would feel the same way if I lived in Afghanistan i would be to sacred to walk out the door not that i would be aloud to go outside. but the fact that a bomb could blow up me and my house its terrifying.
@Haley- Be careful about your lower case 'I's. Remember that if the I is all by itself that it should be a capital... :)
Deletetheir is another book in the class called parvanas adventure
Deleteyes that is the second one
DeletePg.9- Most people in Afghanistan could not read or write. Parvana was one of the lucky ones. Both of her parents had been to university, and they believed in education for everyone, even girls.
ReplyDeleteThis was a very important WOW moment for me because it changed my perspective about how lucky I am to be in school. I learned that in Afghanistan girls cannot go to school because the Taliban had deemed girls not as important as men. I feel that I am lucky to go to school everyday and learn something new. This page really made me think about how every time I gripe and groan about getting up early, or having math homework. I am lucky to be born where I am where everyone is aloud to get an education.
@tweetybird
ReplyDeleteI would feel... sacred to sacred to do anything just the fact that a bomb could fall out of the sky at any minute. I could not ever imagine living there it would terrifying.
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DeleteTaliban soldiers burst through the door. pg 30.
ReplyDeleteI was fearful for they lives.I also felt sorry for there desperate situation. This really brings into focus the things that are happening in the would like how women are treated like animals in some country's.
@Catface- I totally agree with you. We are so lucky to have been born in Canada at the time period we did. Imagine being in Afghanistan and losing everything... It's hard to even think about. Some people get greedy about the way we live, but I think that after reading these novels everyone will have a different perspective on morals and the way they live. I know I sure have.
Delete"Release my husband" her mother kept saying. pg.42
ReplyDeletefirst of all how was she aloud to get to the jail with out getting caught.Second i was very agitated when they did not let the mother and Parvana see the father. I mean how they supposed to get food or anything for that matter.
@catface
DeleteI think they let the women outside but only when they are wearing certain clothes. I felt the same way when they didn't let them see the father, it would be so hard to live without your father.
@catface
DeleteNooria and Parvana had created a note that looked like it came from her father saying they could go outside so they could visit him in the jail. And remember, after a period is two spaces. For example: The girl drove in her blue car. She drove to the store.
Pg. 80 "Up untill then, she had seen Talibs only as men who beat up women and arrested her father. Could they have feelings of sorrow, like other human beings?"
ReplyDeleteI had a WOW moment here because I couldn't beleive being so scared of someone that I thought they didn't have feelings, and that they were not like human beings. I think this was a very important part in the book because it really gives the Talibs a new character profile. I to thought how could all of these people be such monsters? But I stopped myself and I thought, oh my gosh I just stereo typed all of these Afghanistan Talibs. I bet some of the soldiers didn't want to kill these people but it was an order. These people are probably just trying to support their families just like the rest of Afghanistan. It's not fair that we labled them, mabie most of the people were bad, but thats doesn't mean ALL of them were.
@ livee
Deletei agree with you It's not fair that we labled them they must feel some thing when they kill all the inusint people i mean i would.
When I saw we I mean I, if there was any confusion. I know everyone has a different opinion.
ReplyDeleteParvana looked at in her mother’s hand.pg.67
ReplyDeletethis is a big WOW moment for me because the fact that they had to make her look like a boy just so to get food is just sad the fact that if a girl your get treated like dirt so just mast up and if you’re a boy you can have a job, go to school, do anything at all.
@catface
DeleteI agree that was also a big "oh wow" moment for me because they treat boys normally and they let them go to school, have a job etc. and they barely let girls go outside.
@catface I know that was also a BIG WOW moment for me to.
DeletePg 13 who was talking when it said you were such an ugly baby, the soviets could not stand being in the same country as you.
ReplyDeleteNooria said that to Parvana
DeletePg. 80
ReplyDeleteIm wondering if the Taliban feel bad enforcing these laws, do they think that woman should get the same rights as men? I think that some of them are only doing it for money to support their families and they aren't very happy to be enforcing these laws.What do you think?
@Everyone You all have a lot of spelling errors.
ReplyDeleteNOM NOM NOM!
pg. 67 they look a litt parvana thought, but a nice sort of funny
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Parvana has to dress up like a boy just to walk out the door and to get food is just crazy i mean what if she was not married how are would she go outside?
that part suprised me
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ReplyDeleteAfter the soviets, the people who had been shooting at the soviets decided they wanted to keep shooting at something, so they shot at each other.
I had Wow! Moment here because this sentence made me stop and think, what made them continue to shoot each other? Was it the feeling of shooting another person? Or was it that some afghans had hatred for one another and they were holding a gun, so they shot? They could have started for any reason.
They probably did that for fun or maybe they were bored.
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ReplyDeleteBones. They were going to dig up bones.
I had a Wow! Moment here because I couldn't believe that afghans would be so desperate for money that they would dig up their dead families bones for money. Why couldn't they just sell items they didn't need in their home? This also raised a question for me: What would the bones be used for once they were sold to the Bone Broker? Would they give them to families? If so what would the families do with them?
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ReplyDelete"These men are thieves," the soldier called out to the crowd. "See how we punish thieves? We cut off one of their hands! See what we do!"
I had a Wow! Moment here because I couldn't believe that consequences would still be so severe in Afghanistan. I think the last time they had those types of laws was in Babylon with King Hammurabi. This also makes me wonder: Are all the consequences this severe?
There are many countries in the world today who are as barbaric in their punishments. A couple of years ago a young women I believe from Saudi Arabia was sentenced to death by stoning. This sort of inhumane treatment is beyond our compression in Canada. Thankfully, there was such a outcry from people around the world, the young woman was not stoned. So Afghanistan was not so very different than other places that you do not hear about every day. Many young people are beginning to be much more involved in the world of humanitarianism to try and change these very outdated laws.
Deletewhats stoning?
Deleteit's were you are sentenced to die by getting lots of hard, heavy rocks thrown at your head.
Deletewow i can't belive that they dressed parvana up as a boy
ReplyDeleteAdd detail to your posts instead of just a one liner.
Deletepg.98 together, we can come up with a better way to make money."
ReplyDeletethis is a big "WOW" moment for me because it make me think of all the money and things my family has but they have almost nothing it really makes me think about how we have all of these great new things like cellphones,cars,etc.
thats true but we are in the year 2012 so we do have alote more advanced technology the back in the late 1800's.
DeletePg 39 I was confused when Nooria said that she did something very unusual, she gave her sister a hug, why is it unusual to give your sister a hug?
ReplyDelete@epicgamer11
Deleteit is because parvana does not like her sister very much and that suprised he that she hugged her
"Parvana was laughing and looking the other way when a tea boy tripped on something near her and spilled the tray of empty tea cups all over her blanket. the boy sprawled in the dust in front of Parvana. she helped him gather the cups that rolled away. she handed him the tray and saw saw his face for the first time. she let out a gasp and slapped a hand across his mouth. the tea boy was a girl from her class". this part in the book confused me a little, how would her friend know that that was Parvana? why is she copying her idea? if she didn't have any boy clothes then she would have to buy some and she would be questioned by the store owners. i just don't get it.
ReplyDelete@violet were in the book is this because you dinn't put the chapter or Pg # or any
Deletething
pg#94 chapter 9
DeleteWhen Parvana's father got taken away it made me really upset because when he got taken away they just gave up, they laid on the floor for a while and went to bed having a perfectly good sleep and they didn't bother to look for their father till a few days later.
ReplyDeleteaccualy they didn't just give up because they tried to convince the taliban to leave him when they were in the house and they wwent to the jail to try to get him back but didn't work
DeletePg: 30-34
ReplyDelete"Afghanistan doesn't need your foreign ideas!" They yanked him towards the door. "Afghanistan needs more illiterate thugs like you," Father said. One of the soldiers hit him in the face.
This was a huge "Confusing" moment because why did the soldiers arrest him. Plus If i was watching a family member being arrested and beaten for no reason I would fell angry and hatred then I would go Desmond Rage all over the soldiers!
Pg 42 I was confused when the guards just stared at them when parvana's mother was calling out I'm here for my husband over and over. I though the guards would arrest the mother but instead they kept hitting her with his gun.
ReplyDelete@epicgamer11
DeleteYou spelt though instead of thought and you have a few capitalization errors. Also I was confused to about why did they keep hitting them.
oh sorry and they kept hitting them because the guards said get out of here and go back to your hoe but they didn't listen so they kept hitting them.
DeleteQuestions: PG: 41-42
ReplyDelete"Release my husband!" her mother kept saying. Another soldier joined in the beating. He hit Parvana, too.
Why didn't the soldiers let Parvana's Dad out of prison? Her father didn't do anything wrong. This made me feel sad and angry because the people of Afghanistan get beaten and arrested for no reason and that the soldiers get to do what ever they want.
PG: 40
Photographs were illegal. Anyone of these people could turn Parvana and her mother over to the militia.
What is the militia?
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
ReplyDeletePg 64-65 I had a WOW moment when they were cutting parvanas hair to make her look like a boy and I laughed when shE swung the scissors out of noorias hand and said WHAT! I dont want to be a boy i was very shocked that they were doing that.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletepg.107-110 This is a big "wow" moment for me.this is the part that Parvana and Shauzia wanted to make more money so they started to dig up graves to sale the bones. this was a big shock to me because I thought they had a lot of money but they have nothing
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletewhen Parvana left to go to Pakistan where where would Shauzia go? is she acctuly going to leave her family? and if she did leave her family and go to Paris where would she live? she doesnt have the money to go buy a house in Paris. and why would Parvana and Shauzia want to meet up 20 years from now? if i was in Parvana's shoes i would want to see her sooner. and what if the're not even alive 20 years from now, where would they be?
@violet
DeleteI agree with you about them meeting up in 20 years but then don't know what going to happen in 20 years they could be rich or poor dead or alive but you have to read the next books to know...
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen Parvana went to the stadium she saw people getting exuded.this is a big wow moment for me because to see people die in front of me is not even think Abdul and then thinking it mite happen to some one in your family is going to get exuded.
Bones. They were going to dig up bones pg104
ReplyDeletethis suprised me because that is what they had to do just to feed there familys.
"you'll never guess," her mother said. "Nooria's getting married." pg134
this made me happy that one of there family members get to be happy for there life.
two of the soldiers grabbed her father.pg30
this is really sad because they need there father to help with the family. if some one came into my house and took my dad i would be in rage and proboly try to beat them.
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