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The Rugmaker - Online Term Paper

The Rugmaker

Focus question: Discuss the impact of war on Najaf and his family.

Living with war changes how Najaf thinks. It also changes how he acts. Simple metaphor tells us that Najaf develops the actions of a wild animal. For example, while hiding in the cupboard at Ashraf's house, Najaf and Gassem eat "in the way that wild animals eat, with our ears pricked for the sound of our enemies". Later, as he cycles around the countryside trying to get away from the Taliban, Najaf is "always as wary as a wild animal", easily awaken by a "stone rolling down a slope half a kilometer away", or by "the crack of a twig falling from a tree"

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either the communist or mujahedin forces, Najaf has to keep "his eyes peeled", and "one part of his brain always on alert". He is tense, always on the alert and constantly ready to respond to signals that normally people are cannot hear. Najaf's safety and security are constantly breaking down. Insecurity leads to a sense of powerlessness. Najaf sums up to this state of mind when he realizes, early in his rug making apprenticeship, that "this future of learning and gaining greater and greater skill all depended on things that I couldn't control". To cope, Najaf trains himself not to think too far into the future. This demonstrates a terrible and often hidden consequence of war: people lose ...

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Added: 9/1/2012 01:38:58 AM
Submitted By: misscupcake24
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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