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When Parvana returns home from the market with Mrs. Weera, Nooria is relieved and ecstatic to have another adult around to help her. This drives home the fact that though Nooria is 17 and in many ways is treated like an adult, she’s still a child. In this sense, she’s not all that different from Parvana—she just has different constraints on what she can do and how she’s expected to act.
With this, the novel highlights how war and conflict tragically robs children of their childhoods and forces them to grow up much earlier than they should. Over the last…