The+Breadwinner+Elements+of+Plot


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​ ​ This story takes place so far in Kabul, Afghanistan. It seems like it is a poor town where Parvana and her family lives. This book is fiction, yet the facts are true. Such as, the Taliban was real. I agree with the statement above, but I feel that Parvana lived in a beautiful city that is now in ruins because of the bombings. I think the city is crowded with people and there is no safe places to sleep, except in a one room apartment in a partially bombed building. I agree that this book is fiction, but that it is based on a true events. For example, the Taliban did take over Afghanistan, and made all women stay in side at all times and they could not have a job, or be educated in school. The breadwinner takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan. The city that Parvana and her family live in was a normal town like any city but after the bombings it now looks like ruins.
 * EXPOSITION**
 * One of the elements of exposition is setting. Where and when does this story take place? Is it fiction or nonfiction? **

The breadwinner takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the ruins from all the bombings. It mostly takes place in Parvana's hame and in the market place near her home. This story takes place when the Taliban was the goverment of Afghanistan.

Was Kabul always this depressed and destroyed?

Kabul wasn't always like how Parvana described in the book. In History we learned that before the Taliban and the war, Kabul was a beautiful city like Paris now is.

Before the war and the Taliban, Kabul used to be a beautiful city, and people were happy. When the city began to be destroyed by bombs and other things, people became depressed. People were losing family members. Women and girls especially were upset, because they lost a lot of their rights. Girls could not return to school, and women were not permitted to be outside.

Kabul is that way because of the Taliban. It made everyone depressed. The women and girls were probably the most upset because they really never got to experience the outside world. The men were also depressed because they worked so hard and made little moeny to help and support their families.

Kabul was once very beautiful and I would feel extremely sad if where I live was bombed so many times, that I wouldn't get to see the actual beauty of it. I would also feel like I was very unlucky, even though it wasn't my fault that the country was bombed because I was born when it had been destroyed.

Kabul was not always depressed and destroyed. At one time the book said, Kabul was beautiful, Parvana went to school, lived in large beautiful houses, andcould go outside to play when ever she felt like it. when the Taliban came many of her houses were destroyed and the family became more poor, and the Taliban became very strict about women going outside and going to school.

On page 9, it says, "Most people in Afghanistan could not read or write. What would happen to a society or country where most of the people could not read or write, even adults? I just reread page 9 and it would seem like they would talk very slowly and a lot of stores would have to let them see a visual of what they are selling.

i think that their wouldn't evan be a country because no one would realy be able to sell items and work.

I think that there would not be very many educated people. If there aren't educated people, children can't learn, meaning they will grow up to be uneducated. There also wouldn't be enough people to do jobs that required an education, such as doctors.

Slowly the country would fall apart, because only the people that are eduacated would get jobs and the people that are not eduacated might start a riot.

If most people in a country can not read or write, it would make it a hard place to be able to get a job or a women ,especially, since they are not allowed out of their houses, if they had a lot of time to think but could not express it on paper, they might have the potential and the time to write a book, but do not have the material. Thus SIn To help stop this from happening, people around the globe should help make it possible for Afghan children to get a decent or good education.

I agree with the statement above. Although, it would also be very difficult to start a business because the man would not know what to do or where to start. Hiring other employees would be a challenge bacause neither of the men have proper education. The society would most likely end up having the educated people with most of the money.

I agree with the comments above. In the beginning of the stoy, it said that Parvana and her Dad could read. If the would not have been able to read, thaen they would not be able to make money. When Parvana had to work as a pretend boy, she read for people.

On page 10, it says, "Men shopped for their families." Why did they do that? In central Asia woman are no treated a fair as here so the woman mostly stay in there homes. Men had to shop for their families while the Taliban were ruling because the Taliban said that no woman was allowed to go outside on her own and in many stores, women weren't allowed to go into many stores. I think that it was unfair for the women and that it is no wonder that Nooria is so crabby when she can't go outside.

Men had to shop for their for their families because women were not permitted to be outside. If it was necessary for a woman to be outside, she must be accompanied by a man, and she must be completely covered. If a woman were to go to a shop, she has to wait outside. Only the men are allowed inside of the shop.

Also, a storekeeper could be beaten if caught selling items to a Afghan women.

the other countries disapproves the rule on women staying inside by the Taliban.

The men had to work for their families because women were not allowed to work or go outside without a burka and a man. Because the women could not go outside men had to shop also. Parvana has to help her dad at the market evan though the Talibans wont let girls go outside. She is the only one who is eligible to do the chores outside. the family keeps living in a smaller home because of bombing. the dad is captured by the Talibans. The Family has to constantly move to another home because of the bombing in Afghanistan.
 * RISING ACTION**

Another rising action of the story is the Taliban kidnapping Parvana's father when he did nothing wrong. The Taliban wa also very cruel to Parvana and her mother and sisters during the rampage of Parvana's house.

The word "Taliban" is the same singular and plural, like "deer" and "moose."

 One event in the book that I feel is an imported part of the rising action plot is when Parvana and her mother when to the Pul-i-Charkhi Prison to search for her farther. It shows how cruel and not caring the soldiers of the Taliban are because they did not help her and beat her mother. I predict that there are going to be other cruel actions that the Taliban will do to the Afghan people.

Yes Taliban is singular and plural like moose and sheep.

How does the author build the tension in this book? In other words, how does she make us more and more worried about Parvana and her family? The author builds the tension by showing how cruel the Taliban really is. I got very worried for Parvana when she went to the store and a Talib saw that she was a girl in the store, then when she ran as fast as her feet could move.

He make me fell worried because to me it doesn't seem like he gives a lot of detail about the family, it is all about parvana.

It seemed like her way to build tension was to to build suspension. For example, when Parvana's dad came home from jail, the book said that Parvana saw a man before her and then she realized it was her dad. Also, when she and Shauzia were digging in the graves, Pervana's mother took a while to decide weather or not she could do it so I had to keep reading to find out.

The author bulit tension when their fater was taken away. Also when Parvana and her mother got beaten by the Taliban because they wanted their father back so they can eat and have money to survive.

The author also bulit tension when they cut Parvanas hair, risking her to be caught and killed because she was a girl not a boy.

How did Mrs. Weera help this family to change their lives?

Mrs. Weera helped this family gain confidence. She encouraged them to make the best of the situation and to try to be happy. She also helped clean and do housework. She was a tremendous help.

Mrs. Weera has not only given the family confidence but, she has gotten Parvana's mother to write again. They are opening a secret business that ships stories to Pakistan

Mrs. Weera has got the family moving and helping Pavannas's mother and giving ideas to the family.

Mrs. Weera helped this family a lot by laying down what their plan is to earn money,etc. She has also given them confidence, like now Parvana's mother actually can talk and is acting like herself. Her mother likes Mrs. Weera a lot and doesn't feel lonely when she comes.

Mrs.Weera helped the family by helping around the house, helping Parvana to earn money, building a secret school for small girls to learn, ang most impotantly helping the family regain most of thier confidence.

The climax of a novel is usually the moment of the highest interest and greatest emotion. It is the the point at which the conflict is resolved and the resolution can be predicted. What do you think is the climax of //The Breadwinner?//
 * CLIMAX**

I think the climax of the book is when Parvana and Shauzia go bone digging. This job was a job that they were both unwilling and scared to do, but they knew the pay was good.

Me to I think the climax is when they go bone digging and earn a lot of money.

I think the climax of the book is when one of the tea boys drops something near the place Parvana was selling items and tries to pick it up, but Parvana realizes it is Shauzia, a girl she used to go to school with before the Taliban took over Kabul. Parvana then feels like she is not alone when pretending to be a boy, and there are people who know how she feels.

I think the climax of the book is when Parvana becomes the Breadwinner of her family. She has to take the family on her shoulders and without her, her family wouldn't be able to survive. I think Parvana eventually figures this out and she does what she has to and earns the money for her family.


 * FALLING ACTION**

On page 127: "You'll leave your family? How will they eat?" "I can't help that!" Shauzia's voice rose and caught, as she tried not to cry. "I just have to get out of here. I know that makes me a bad person, but what else can I do? I'll die if I have to stay here!" Is Shauzia making the right decision? Why or why not?

I do think that she is making the right decision. Her grandparents are treating her terribly and she is the one who is earning the money to support them. I don't think she would make it very far with the nomads, but she should definitely try to get out of Afghanistan and live somewhere else.

I think Shauzia is making a selfish decision by leaving her family that needs her for money, but I don't think it is the wrong thing to do. In our country, it is illegal to make children work. Shauzia probably feels very stressed that she must support her whole family on her own, and bored that all she does all day long is dig bones with Parvana. I do not blame her for yearning to flee Afghanistan to try to have a better life, but her family needs her to get food during these troubled times in Kabul. I think she is making the right decision.Because she is being treated very poorly, and she is the one who is earning the money so she would have no problem on her own and she wouldn't miss her family. It would be way less stressful to take care of her self than her whole family.

I think that Shauzia is making the right decision because she is sick of how her family fights day in and day out. On the other hand, I think she is being a bit too ambitious since it is not very likely that she'll survive by being an orphan of a nomadic group, as staying at home working for her own food and her family's. I think that aa Shauzia doesn't like working and pretending being a boy, so when she comes home, she feels exhausted and wants to have a peaceful place to relax, and her family doesn't make this possible for her.

I think that Shauzia is making the wrong decision, although I would do the same thing if I were her. Even though she doesn't like her home, she shouldn't just abandon her family. She should do her VERY VERY BEST to ignore the arguing people at her house. I, for example, have learned how to ignore my sister when she is whining or my mother when she is yelling at me. She can't just think about how SHE feels, but also how her family will feel.

The story ends with Shauzia going to pakistan with Mrs. Weera and Parvana going with her dad, who just got back from jail, to find her mom and sister.
 * RESOLUTION**

The story ends when Parvana's dad comes back and and Shauzia, Mrs Weera, Parvana, and Parvana's dad.

I think that the author left us hanging and not fully getting us up to the point where we need to be.

Also it may lead to another book (the sequal).