Love and War

I read for Group One pages 49-103.

 

Love and War in Afghanistan is really an interesting book. I have really learned quite a bit from the book. The culture to me is still very interesting. It is so vastly different from ours that it throws me off at times, I find myself re-reading portions of this book as an attempt to better understand it.

 

The first entry that we read you could tell just by reading it that she was a very well educated woman. In contrast the second passage that I read (Gulbuddin, Son of Mahfat Khan) you could tell that he was not educated to the same degree as the woman in the first tale we read. Some of the things he said were quite shocking. The description of the mass murder was not at all what I thought it was going to be. It was a little frightening, to me at least. I think this man has lead an incredible life, through all of the hardship he endured he still was a kind person.

 

The Second story that we read was interesting. It surprises me to see how much these people are will to go through in order to survive, as well has how much they are willing to put their families and children through.  I think that they have this drive to live that can’t be undone by anything else. In more than one of the stories who hear about fathers getting injured or dying and the children having to provide for the rest of the family.

 

I could not believe some of the things that I read about in the last story. Women play such an interesting role on Afghanistan. Some of the things that women do to control the men is interesting but while I was reading the story it transitioned in some way to being mostly about the men. Everything in this culture and religion revolves around men.

 

I think this book is very interesting. It is hard to believe some of the things these people have gone through.