Breadwinner Project
Due Friday, May 28
Directions: Re-read the following description of the home Parvana and her family are living in at the beginning of the novel “The Breadwinner”. As you read, visualize in your mind what their home must look like. Then recreate an identifiable picture of their home based on the description and visual representation in your mind. (Hint: there are at least ten items within the description that help define their home.) Label the items from their home in your picture. Be sure to include your name and a title for your drawing.
“Parvana looked around their tiny room. All of the furniture she remembered from their other houses had been destroyed by bombs or stolen by looters. All they had now was a tall wooden cupboard, which had been in the room when they rented it. It held the few belongings they had been able to save. Two toshaks were set against the walls, and that was all the furniture they had. They used to have beautiful Afghan carpets. Parvana remembered tracing the intricate patterns of them with her fingers when she was younger. Now there was just cheap matting over the cement floor.
Parvana could cross their main room with ten regular steps one way and twelve regular steps the other way. It was usually her job to sweep the mat with their tiny whisk broom. She knew every inch of it.
At the end of the room was the lavatory. It was a very small room with a platform toilet- not the modern Western toilet they used to have! The little propane cookstove was kept in there because a tiny vent, high in the wall, kept fresh air coming into the room. The water tank was there, too- a metal drum that held five pails of water- and the wash basin was next to that…
The only window in the room was a small one, high up on one wall…”