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Character Mind Map - Nisha - Coggle Diagram
Character Mind Map - Nisha
Before the conflict
Keeps to herself. She doesn't speak out loud and prefers talking in her diary.
Comfortable lifestyle. She is very used to her comfortable lifestyle and is very much in her comfort-zone.
Caring for her family but not as much. She cares about her family but doesn't pay much mind to a lot of things and issues that her family members might be going through.
Quiet
Blind to political violence. She doesn't understand politics.
Oblivious. She acts very oblivious to many things. She doesn't understand the growing religious tensions and doesn't understand that people can be different.
Not ready to lose anyone or to say goodbye. She is attached to a lot of people and isn't quite ready to let them go.
Not mature and still acts and thinks like a child
Does anything she can to believe that she is like her mother even though she is like her father more
During the conflict
Developing skills of survival. She learns how to cook for her family and nobody tells her not to cook and she starts to enjoy it. She helps in everything and tries to help out wherever she can.
Blind to violence. She can see the violence but doesn't understand the true scale of the violence.
Doesn't understand why everybody wants to kill everyone. She wants everybody to be together in harmony because she liked it better that way.
Quiet. She doesn't speak much still.
Easily hurt. She becomes more sensitive and takes everything too personally but doesn't say anything out loud.
In the process of being traumatised. She sees things which are not natural for a 12 year old to see and doesn't have the proper help to recover from them. She was almost killed and she has unsettling thoughts about the incident
Depressed. Her growing depression is evident and how she longs for a happy life back inside her own home with everyone is brought out more as the book progresses.
After the conflict
Developed a lot of survival skills
Understands the reason for the violence but wants everyone to make peace
Quiet
PTSD Diagnosed
Depressed
Overthinker
Sensitive. Her father got mad at her once for talking with other people and now she isn't talking again. She just nods or shakes her head because she doesn't have the willpower to talk
Mature: Thinks more like an adult but still has the sense of being a child
Understands who's side she's on. She understands that her family is half Muslim and half Hindu but she knows that she has to stick with the Hindu side because she is in India.