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Theft Bashir Character Analysis

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The end is never good for half widows and half orphans. The whole family has to suffer when a bread earner is lost .The children are forced by circumstances to take up the roles they are not fully prepared for. Extending the family struggle of the ex militant, in the story Theft Bashir has shown how the loss of a lone bread earner can be the cause of financial problems and push the incapable and yet not ready family members to do the menial jobs to survive. The women of Jammu & Kashmir in general and those of the valley of Kashmir in particular have been going through these traumatic conditions for the last more than two decades of conflict. The impact is huge and the society in Kashmir is scattered, leaving even children either orphaned …show more content…

Women primarily have been the most terribly injured party, in this decade’s long conflict. Anywhere in the world, women suffer the most in any sort of conflict. Either she is war booty in the hands of belligerents, or she is a widow back at home. She suffers as a daughter, mother, wife and sister, because most of the times she has to survive alone, with the loss of any support from her male counterpart. ‘The Woman Who Became Her Own Husband ' is another tragic story of death and mourning. It is about Ayesha and her loving husband Tariq Zargar, a bank employee who is shot dead in Lal Chowk by security forces. His death ends their exemplary marital association. The life of Ayesha is torn into pieces and she becomes a spectacle of frustration and mental trauma. Ayesha is unable to overcome this shock and starts mimicking Tariq 's diurnal routine, as she slips towards madness. The writer has once again delineated the picture of pain of a widow. Women lose their husbands without being a party to the political scuffle. The innocent Kashmiris are killed in cold blood especially the lone bread earners leaving the whole family in the vortex of hardships both psychological and financial.The narrator describes the exemplary relationship of the couple

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