AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED

BY: KHALED HOSSEINI

Why is childhood such an important time of life?  When does it end?

      

             Childhood plays an essential role in a persons life because they gradually begin learning new knowledge by an unawareness way. They begin to develop the stage of maturity, and begin to rejoice on their own feet in the real world. It begins to end right after the feeling of being more mature and having more responsibilities in life so they could stand on their feet as an individual. And The Mountains Echoed by: Khaled Hosseini is a great example of what happens as these two siblings become motherless in an Afghan village, and live out in the cold world based on the teachings of there father.

       In this book, the two siblings Abdullah and Pari begin to live in the real world at such a young age. As the father is a traumatized mad man that has lost is beloved son Qais from the div, he becomes strict and beats his children, which he used to never do before. It wasn't like he didn't love them but it was a way to roughen them up. It created fear between his children and himself. As so the children begin to learn new knowledge from there father and begin to become more mature. Even though they are at a stage of learning, they still remind themselves and begin to miss their childhood by singing a lullaby that there mother use to sing them before they went to sleep. 

"I found a sad little fairy

 Beneath the shade of a paper tree.

 I know a sad little fairy

 Who was blown away by the wind one night. (Pg.21)

      

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       Childhood begins to disappear when society has a huge effect on you. It is a childhood that Abdullah and Pari could never live again. The will never find the beauty of living as a child again.