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The Breadwinner, Support quote - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mrs. Weera can be identified with the Stock character. This is because in chapters 1-7 she doesn't have an "evil" character which discards her from being a static character. And in the story we don't see her change her attitude according to what better suits her in a certain situation. She can also be identified with the archetype of "caring" she willingly helped Parvana's family when they were in dire need for food.
    - - Mrs. Weera is a brave and tough character by expressing no fear what so ever to the Taliban. She is also friendly, as well as athletic and tall thanks to her former role as a gym teacher. She is also an elder woman.
        
        quote: "Mrs. Weera was a tall woman. Her hair was white, but her body was strong. She had been a physical education teacher before the Taliban made her leave her job."
  - - - Parvana is the dynamic character in the story, this is due to her being forced to change periodically with the events of the story, like when she has to dress herself up as her brother Hossain to go to the market. Another reason on why we consider her to be the dynamic character is the fact that she is the protagonist of the story, and the dynamic character always makes the best type of protagonist
    - - Before boy dress-up
        
        Before being forced to dress up as a boy, Parvana was a strong girl because she carried buckets of water from the well to her house daily, she was also respectful to both her parents specially in public spaces, like when she didn't speak a word when she was in the market with her father. She also had long hair which she covered with her chador
        
        quote(s): "Parvana passed by her to get to the water bucket. Nooria smiled her superior big-sister smile and flipped her hair back over her shoulders." "Parvana groaned. If the tank was almost empty, she'd have to make five trips to the water tap. Six, because her mother hated to see an empty water bucket."
      - After boy dress-up
        
        After the boy dress-up, Parvana had short, shaggy hair, that was representative of the boys in Afghanistan. Parvana, is also described to have larger eyes and forehead. She also kept her strong body from when she wasn't forced to dress up as a boy. She had to wear her brother Hossain's clothes, a cap, and her Father's pakul. She is also brave, since she, against her fear, went to the market to get supplies for her family running the risk of getting discovered
        
        support quotes:
        "What was left of her hair was short and shaggy. It curled in a soft fringe around her ears. There were no long parts to fall into her eyes, to become tangled on a windy day, to take forever to dry when she got caught in the rain".
        Her forehead seemed bigger. Her eyes seemed bigger, too, maybe because she was opening them so wide to be able to see everything. Her ears seemed to stick out from her head."
        "She took off her own clothes and put on her brother's. Hossain's shalwar kameez was pale green, both the loose shirt and the baggy trousers. The shirt hung down very low, and the trousers were too long, but by rolling them up at the waist, they were all right."
- - - - The internal conflict Parvana has to face in the book is that her father isn't with them to get supplies after he was arrested by the Taliban and lost his real and fake leg. And she also has to face the absence of her brother and stand out for her family, dress as a boy and do the unthinkable to make reality better for her family, even when running the risk of getting caught
        
        quote: "Parvana had never been inside a prison, but she had other relatives who had been arrested. One of her aunts had been arrested with hundreds of other schoolgirls for protesting the Soviet occupation of her country. All the Afghan governments put their enemies in jail."
  - - - The external conflict Parvana has to face within the book is her having to be the one to dress up as her brother Hossain, because she is the one that fits the description of Hossain the most accurately, she also faces this problem because her two other sisters are either too young or too old to dress up as a boy and go to the market to get supplies for the family without getting noticed
        
        quote: " 'As a boy, you'll be able to move in and out of the market, buy what we need, and no one will stop you...' "