parvana+chapter+13

****Chapter 13 1. A summary of the events in Chapter 13 ** In chapter 13 Nooria is on her way to get married. Nooria and her mother decided to let Nooria take the hand in marriage to one of their family friends that they used to be neighbours with. Nooria was going to live in Mazar-e-Sharif where she could be educated, well feed and she could get all her rights back, the rest of the family were just going to go up for the wedding to support her. All of this was writen in a letter while Parvana was out working and Mother decided that they were all going to go but when Parvana arrived home she refused to go. After a couple of arguments and about 3 days finally Mother made the desscision of letting Parvana stay in Kabul. There could have been many reasons for Parvana wanting to stay but the main reason was because she wanted to be there if her father returned from prision "We can't leave Kabul, what about Father? What will happen if he gets out fo prison and we're not here? He wont know where to look for us!" but Mrs Weera kindly implied that she would be there for him.
 * Group Members: Sophie, Alana, Emily and Ellen.

The over the next few days the family were packing the only belongings they owned and soon after the goodbyes were in place. They left very early in mid July in a truck. Parvana said goodbye to Ali and kissed him who sqirmed from being woking up early, then Maryam who was soon lifted into the truck, then to her dear mother who repeated allmost the same words as her father did when he was taken away "Make me proud of you." Last but not least Parvana said goodbye to her older sister Nooria she was clutching the beaded pen Parvana had given her they had one last laugh and then everyone was gone. It was just Parvana, Mrs Weera and her grandchild in the bare empty home that a happy family once lived in. **2. 2 questions on Chapter 13 for homework **  Question 1: Why did Nooria want to take her burqa off her head as soon as she passed the Taliban territory and rip it into a million pieces? Question 2: How do you think the absence of Parvana's family will effect her?