Farah’s goal is to get her mother and herself across the border of Afghanistan to Quetta, Pakistan. On their way there they come across multiple challenges. For instance, Farah and her mother try to get on to a very crowded bus, surrounded by dozens of people, in order to get through Farah realizes, “…what we needed to do, and taking my mother by the arm, I shoved and pushed with the others until we made it to the door of the van” (Ahmedi 355). As a young girl Farah being able to do this while helping her asthmatic mother shows just how much determination and strength she
Farah’s goal is to get her mother and herself across the border of Afghanistan to Quetta, Pakistan. On their way there they come across multiple challenges. For instance, Farah and her mother try to get on to a very crowded bus, surrounded by dozens of people, in order to get through Farah realizes, “…what we needed to do, and taking my mother by the arm, I shoved and pushed with the others until we made it to the door of the van” (Ahmedi 355). As a young girl Farah being able to do this while helping her asthmatic mother shows just how much determination and strength she