This book is about an 11 year old girl called Parvana. She lives in Kabul in Afghanistan in a one roomed apartment. She lives there with her family; her father, her mother, her older sister Nooria, her younger sister Maryam and her little brother Ali.
When her father is put into prison by the Taliban, Parvana must become a "boy" and take up her father's job as a letter reader to earn money and by food for her family. Under the rule of the taliban, women have no rights and must always be accompanied by a male when going out.
Parvana's mother and the rest of the family, exept for her father who is still in prison, go away for Nooria's wedding. Warvana stays behind with a neighbour, Mrs Weera, to wait for her father, in case he gets let out of prison while they are away. Parvana finds a girl called Homa in an empty building and brings her home. Homa tells them that her city, where the rest of the family have gone for Nooria's wedding, has been taken over by the taliban.
Shortly afterwards her father is let out of prison. They set out on a journey to find the rest of the family, and they hope very much that they are alive. Her father dies shortly after starting their journey and Parvana must go on alone.
This story is exiting and sad at the same time , I enjoyed reading it very much and I think it its for readers aged 10-14.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Movie Review: TRON LEGACY
The movie is about an eight year old boy called Sam and his father who goes to work one day and never comes back.
The movie then skips about 20 years and the dad's friend gets a message from his dads office, from a number that hasn't been used in 20 years. The son goes to his dads office and accidentally enters a world inside a computer that his dad created.
It is a world where everyone wears digital suits and ride on motor cycles and in planes that appear when you pull a stick apart. The main part of this world seems to be based on playing games, except you lose by dying. There are three types of people, users (real people inside the computer), programs (which are a digital version of users), and ISOs (people that formed because all the right things were there).
The movie is a sequel to another movie made a long time ago, and this makes the movie quite confusing, especially because I have not seen the first one.
The father had been kicked out of the city and a program version of himself had taken over, Sam gets rescued and brought out of the city by his father's apprentice quorra who is the very last one of the ISOs and finds his father. the rest of the movie is about them trying to get to the portal which will take them back to the real world.
The movie then skips about 20 years and the dad's friend gets a message from his dads office, from a number that hasn't been used in 20 years. The son goes to his dads office and accidentally enters a world inside a computer that his dad created.
It is a world where everyone wears digital suits and ride on motor cycles and in planes that appear when you pull a stick apart. The main part of this world seems to be based on playing games, except you lose by dying. There are three types of people, users (real people inside the computer), programs (which are a digital version of users), and ISOs (people that formed because all the right things were there).
The movie is a sequel to another movie made a long time ago, and this makes the movie quite confusing, especially because I have not seen the first one.
The father had been kicked out of the city and a program version of himself had taken over, Sam gets rescued and brought out of the city by his father's apprentice quorra who is the very last one of the ISOs and finds his father. the rest of the movie is about them trying to get to the portal which will take them back to the real world.
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