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What is Zahra’s reaction to the fighting surrounding her in context to her relationship with her family, and the sniper, and in a larger sense her outlook on life.
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Daniel Desmond IB English Year 1 HL Ms. Ben-Nasr 03 June 2001 What is Zahra's reaction to the fighting surrounding her in context to her relationship with her family, and the sniper, and in a larger sense her outlook on life. Surrounding her in almost every facet of her life, the war, for Zahra, acts like a canopy under which she resides. The canopy, however, is not a protective blanket. For, despite Zahra's almost total disregard for the bombs falling around her, she replies to the instruments of war with anger and resentment. The war draws her family further away from her, and in one sense, helps her to escape. On the other hand, her brother, and her lover, both signify the fighting, and they cause her stance on life to contain "promises only of menace." Zahra's chronology is not entirely composed of war, and for that matter, the first part of the novel contains...
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