Parvana's Journey and Breadwinner

Question 1

Describe Parvana.

Answer 1

Parvana dresses like a boy to provide for her family, she’s coragous, caring, and responsible. She’s tall and she has short dark brown hair.

Question 2

Describe Shauzia.

Answer 2

Shauzia has short dark brown hair and dresses like a boy to provide for her family. She used to go to school with Parvana. Shauzia is selfish, independant, and intelligent.

Question 3

Describe Parvana’s father.

Answer 3

He was tall, bearded, and lost his leg. He was clever, intelligent, loving, and kind. He died at the start of the novel.

Question 4

Describe Hassan.

Answer 4

Hassan is toddler sized and is very cute. He is giggly and very curios.

Question 5

Descibe Asif.

Answer 5

Asif has short dark brown hair, and he’s shorter than Parvana. He’s missing a leg and has many scars from when he lived with his Uncle, working for him in a fruit orchard. Asif is independant, grouchy, and kind.

Question 6

Describe Leila.

Answer 6

Leila has blue eyes, pretty, has long and tangled hair, and is shorter than Asif. She’s caring, fast, and determined.

Question 7

Describe Leila’s Grandmother.

Answer 7

She’s crippled, has long tangled hair,and her hair is grey. She’s quiet, curios, and wise.

Question 8

Describe Parvana’s mother.(Fatana)

Answer 8

She’s tall and has long hair. She’s wise, caring, and emotional.

Question 9

Describe Nooria.

Answer 9

She’s tall, curvy, and has long hair. She acts bossy, and is independant, and clever.

Question 10

Describe Maryam.

Answer 10

She’s 5 years old, short, and has dark brown hair. She’s curios, carring, energetic, and enjoys being outside.

Question 11

Describe Ali.

Answer 11

Ali is 2 years old, short, and has short dark brown hair. He’s curios, energetic, and enjoys being outside.

Question 12

Describe the time period.

Answer 12

20 years after the Taliban took over, sometime from 2002-2003

Question 13

Describe the point of view.

Answer 13

Parvana’s Perspective

Question 14

Describe the tense.

Answer 14

Past/ Present

Question 15

Describe the setting in Parvana’s Journey and Breadwinner

Answer 15

-bombed villages
-graves/grave yards
-everything looks dusty and dirty
-lean ons and villages bombed
Breadwinner is set in Kabul and in Parvana’s home, a rundown, apartment building

Question 16

Describe the signifigance of the title.

Answer 16

The title of the novel is “Parvana’s Journey”, Parvana originally started this journey with her father to find her family, but her father later dies and it becomes Parvana, herself doing everything herself. But she later finds other children and they join Parvana’s journey, making it not just hers but theirs too.

Question 17

What are the weapons used by the Taliban and mentioned in the novel?

Answer 17

The taliban carry batons and machine guns with them on a daily basis. Land mines are planted everywhere in Afghanistan. Villages are constantly bombed by planes dropping bombs down.

Question 18

Describe a typical refugee camp.

Answer 18

The refugee camps mentioned in the novel are just camp sites with everything in tents and refugees living in lean ons. There are always people there that have given up all hope and turn crazy. There are long lines everywhere and theyre to get simple essentials like food, water, treatment, clothing, and blankets.

Question 19

Describe the theme “Tragedy and Death”.

Answer 19

• Parvana’s mourning for her father’s death; at the beginning of the novel Parvana was mourning and covering her father’s grave with rocks.
• Asif lost his leg when he was young, he was covered in scars from when he worked for his uncle in a fruit orchard. He also lost his family.

Question 20

Describe the theme “Struggle”.

Answer 20

• The people in afghanistan are struggling to survive , people are constantly being punished, stolen from, and starving
• Parvana is struggling to survive, she’s the only one out to find food for the 4 of them, and she’s the only one fit to work.

Question 21

Describe the theme “Violence and War”.

Answer 21

-Violence;People are being punsihed by the Taliban everywhere and are fighting each other to survive.
-War;It’s everywhere, the reason why people loss their limbs are from war, its from land mines and constant bombings.
Parvana’s father lost his leg from a bomb that happend because of war.

Question 22

Describe the theme “Hunger”.

Answer 22

-Hunger is a theme that is shown almost in every chapter, the 4 children are always running out of food and the people around them are not willing to give them any, because they’re afraid they wont have any left, because they’re also starving.

Question 23

Describe the theme “Friendship”.

Answer 23

They book cover is forshadowing for the 3 other children that will also join Parvana on her journey to find her family. Parvana seems to always make friends wen she stays at a certain place for a certain period of time.

Question 24

Describe the theme “Sacrafice”

Answer 24

-Parvana sacrafices her future to find her family; with the time she and her father had they could’ve escaped Afghanistan to somewhere safer for a better life but they chose to sacrafice their futures for the sake of being a whole family together.

Question 25

Describe the theme “Strength and Courage”

Answer 25

-Parvana is always getting stronger, she’s full of hope that she’ll be able to find her family
Parvana has seen some things average children haven’t,she’s afraid but she never lost hope.