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Deborah EllisA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Compare and contrast Parvana and Asif. Consider their family backgrounds and behavior. They have a complex relationship throughout the novel, seeming to be at odds with one another for the majority of their time together, yet also experiencing a few moments of bonding. Explain their relationship and how Ellis’s choice to create tension between them is significant.
Along Parvana’s journey, she mostly meets children, and the few adults she does meet seem more helpless than the children. Why does Ellis focus on children throughout the novel? How does her depiction of children and adults show how the war affects children in a different way than adults?
By Deborah Ellis
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Canadian Literature
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Family
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Fiction with Strong Female Protagonists
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Juvenile Literature
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Realistic Fiction (Middle Grade)
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