(AGG) Have you ever wondered how much a bombing can affect/change someone? (BS-1) When the U.S bombed Najmah’s village, it created a conflict for Najmah which led her to character change. (BS-2) The U.S bombing that killed Faiz also led Nusrat to a conflict which drove her to character change. (BS-3) These bombings both affected the final decisions made by Najmah and Nusrat at the end of the book. (TS) The author used American operations in Afghanistan to create conflict which drives character change in the book. (MIP-1) The author used real life American operations in Afghanistan to create a conflict and character change for Najmah when her village was bombed killing Mada-jan and Habib.
(SIP-A) Najmah’s village being bombed is connected…show more content… (SIP-A) With no one else left in Najmah’s family except her and Nur, they feel like they must go back to their village. (STEWE-1) Najmah doesn’t want to go to New York with Nusrat, she says “my entire life I have lived in the shadow of the Hindu Kush… my heart would cry if I could not see the mountains everyday” (Staples 247). Najmah wouldn’t feel right if she went to New York, she wants to go back and live in her village. (STEWE-2) Nur and Najmah have to return to their land because Nur says “we have no choice but to return to Golestan… it was where our father’s father and his father’s father and so many generations before them made their lives, and it is our duty to make our life there and the lives of our children… we must do everything to obey our father’s wishes, no matter what the cost” (Staples 256). It was Baba-jan’s wishes for Nur and Najmah to go back their village and now since no one else in the family is left, they feel like they must return to their land and live there. Najmah and Nur are one of the many generations that have lived on that land and it makes the most sense for them to return. (SIP-B) Without Faiz in Nusrat’s life, she feels like she must return back to America. (STEWE-1) After finding out Faiz will not come back, Nusrat makes the decision to go to America when she says “I’d like to spend some time with my mother and father, to make peace with them. I was all they had, and it hurt them terribly to lose me” (Staples 236). Nusrat moved to Afghanistan with Faiz so that he could help people, but now that he’s gone, she feels that she should go back and see her family again. (STEWE-2) Going to New York would start to help Nusrat because she says “I don’t think I need them to accept me so much now that I accept myself” (Staples 237). Nusrat is
