the breadwinner
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- I'm here for my husband.
- I'm here for my father!
- Stop! Stop it! We'll go now!We'll go!
- Taliban soldiers barge through their door.They soldiers grab Father and search the apartment; Nooria is hiding, and the little ones are screaming.
- Mother and Parvana are going to get Father out of jail.Nooria forges a note from Father giving Mother permission to be outside the home, and Parvana sticks the note up her sleeve.
- As a boy, you'll be able to move in and out of the market, buy what we need, and no one will stop you,
- The soldiers have had enough from Mother and Parvana, so they tear Father's photograph and start hitting Mother with a stick; shortly after, they beat Parvana as well.Mother is beaten to the ground and Parvana tells the soldiers to back off, that they will leave.
- I can read and write in Dari and Pashtu.
- Parvana is in the marketplace, and it feels strange to be there without Father. she's stopped by a Talib, who yells at her for not wearing a burqa and hits her shoulder with a stick.
- Parvana agree to become a boy or there would be no food. She needed to look like a boy to shop. She would wear her dead brother’s (Hossain’s) clothing. She had to have her hair cut. Parvana resisted but realized there was no choice.
- Parvana sets up camp where her father always did because it's good business to do so; the spot is right next to a wall and there is window overhead and she had her first customer.
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