The Persimmon Tree Quotes

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(MIP-1) Women Are being treated poorly by the Taliban and men that support the Taliban’s strict rules that limit what a women can do in Afghanistan. (SIP-A) Some of the Taliban's rules in Afghanistan are so strict that if a women were to break one of them they could be killed. (STEWE-1) In the book Under The Persimmon Tree, the Taliban’s rules are very uncompromising for women. “Even with the Taliban defeated in parts of Afghanistan, it's not safe for women to walk alone in the bazaar in Peshawar. Still, a women and a man walking together might be accosted and asked for proof that they're married. If there is no proof, they could be beaten, or worse. A child will divert suspicion from Husna Basharat.” (197). This quote talks about how unsafe …show more content…
She had to dress up like a boy and change her look so she would fool people so she would be safer, if she could trick people into thinking that she was a boy then she could successfully find her father and brother. “Khalida pushes my arms into a man’s tunic and she tugs a pair of trousers up over my hips, pulling the drawstring until it's snug against my waist” (84). If Najmah got caught by the Taliban and if they knew she was a girl then the Taliban could choose to beat her up and maybe even kill her. (STEWE-2) In Afghanistan, the Taliban and other men think that their rules are fair, the strict rules are leading to those rules being broken because they are so strict. "Shortly after capturing the capital city of Kabul, the Taliban set up a policing agency called the Ministry for the Enforcement of Virtue and Suppression of Vice, which enforced the Taliban version of Islamic law. The agency immediately began to impose strict regulations on women. Women were not allowed to work in most occupations and girls could not attend school. Women over the age of fourteen were to wear only traditional garb, including the burqa, an ankle-length veil that fully covered the body.” (Benson,
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