Week three. Topic 3

There are lots of themes and issues in Parvana but I think the biggest one is how women cannot go outside unless they are accompanied by a husband or other man. When reading this my first thought was to the novel 'Once.' It is about a young Jewish boy who is forced into hiding because of the consistent threat of the nazis. Similar to this, the women of Afghanistan are almost eternally forced into hiding in their home, like how Fantana has not left her house in 1 and a half years. She or the other women of the neighbourhood are scared of going outside because of the Taliban, who pretty much have a licence to do what ever they want to who ever they want. Another issue is when one of the Taliban members hits a woman just because they are slightly disobeying the rules. This brings me back to my favourite childhood book called 'The Call of the Wild.' When the dogs were being trained, if they did not do exactly as their owner said, he would hit his dog with a metal club. In his case it worked, because after the dogs were trained they were very obedient but not for the women of Afghanistan. When the soldiers hit the women it is supposed to strike fear into the people so they are too scare to do anything wrong, but for some people it makes them furious and try to rebel against the government and this is how civil wars start.