Homa is a teenager a little younger than Nooria whom Parvana finds in a bombed-out building in the Kabul marketplace. When Parvana meets Homa, the girl is too afraid, exhausted, and hungry to speak, so Parvana refers to her just as “the woman.” Once Homa is well enough to share her name, she also shares her story: she snuck onto a truck bed after the Taliban took her home city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The Taliban shot and killed her parents and brother, and they wouldn’t allow anyone to cover or bury the bodies. Homa remains in Kabul with Parvana, Mrs. Weera, and eventually, Father. She’s kind and helpful, and she’s educated, so she and Father practice their English together. Homa plans to accompany Mrs. Weera to a refugee camp in Pakistan to start a school and work more closely with Mrs. Weera’s secret women’s group.
Homa / The Woman Quotes in The Breadwinner
The The Breadwinner quotes below are all either spoken by Homa / The Woman or refer to Homa / The Woman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14
Quotes
“I don’t like working alone. The marketplace isn’t the same when you’re not there. Won’t you come back?”
Put to her like that, Parvana knew she could not refuse. [...] Part of her wanted to slip away from everything, but another part wanted to get up and stay alive and continue to be Shauzia’s friend. With a little prodding from Shauzia, that was the part that won.
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Homa / The Woman Quotes in The Breadwinner
The The Breadwinner quotes below are all either spoken by Homa / The Woman or refer to Homa / The Woman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 14
Quotes
“I don’t like working alone. The marketplace isn’t the same when you’re not there. Won’t you come back?”
Put to her like that, Parvana knew she could not refuse. [...] Part of her wanted to slip away from everything, but another part wanted to get up and stay alive and continue to be Shauzia’s friend. With a little prodding from Shauzia, that was the part that won.
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