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What Is Affecting Parvana's Life?

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In the novel Bread Winner by Deborah Ellis and there was a war going on in Afghanistan. Parvana’s family keep getting bomb on so her family keep getting poorer and poorer with each bomb hitting. (13) Why I think that is affecting Parvana 's life is because that means that her family can 't afford anything good or buy a good house far away from the war. I was said in the text the “Parvana 's life has been in ruins, and it was hard for her to image it another way.”(16) So I believe that she can’t remember what Afghanistan without war. The text says “We need water,” Nooria said. “Can’t I sit down for awhile first?” Parvana asked her mother. “You will rest better when you work is done. Now go. The water tank is almost

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