Post 5A

I've been reading Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez.

VOCABULARY
rotary (164) - (noun) a traffic circle
pandemonium (120) - (noun) wild uproar, unrestrained disorder, chaos

APPEALS
1. "The I whirled around, flipping up my burqa, and punched him full in the face" (167). This is an emotional appeal. Debbie was upset because a man had groped her and women normally do nothing when this happens in Afghanistan.
2. "After we hung around and ate some dinner, I thought back to my disaster relief training in 2001, before I'd even known where Afghanistan was on the map" (100). This is a logical appeal because Debbie is remembering a specific date.
3. "We had a lot of fun that night, getting away for a few hours from the dusty, crowded, complicated Kabul just outside the gate. We went back two days later, and it was all gone" (93). This is an emotional appeal. Debbie remembers how much fun she had at a club that was owned by 'westerners'. However, it was shut down by the government in less than two days.

QUOTE
"Suraya was taking notes and translating, and I kept asking her why each woman had been imprisoned. One of them was there because she had been raped. One was there because she had been raped and her husband had killed the rapist. He was also in prison, but her term was longer. Several young girls were there because they had tried to run away with their boyfriends... (the stories continue).... The stories wereall horrible, but the young girl weeping in my ear- imprisoned because she had fled her abusive husband-did me in. I cried and cried, until I embarrassed Suraya" (107-108). I think it is terrible that all of these women are in prison. The laws in Afghanistan are so different than the laws here. Abusive husbands and rapists are sent to prison here, not the abused and the raped. This was appalling.

THEME
An emerging theme in this book is love; Debbie felt like she had friends in America, but found so many characters that she befriended and loved in Afghanistan.