The Man from Kabul

As I read, the story entitled " The Man from Kabul". I was hysterical with tears over the Kabuliwallah's loved to her beloved daughter. Which somehow, I felt the regrets and sadness of Kabuliwallah when he missed the grown up of her daughter while he had been away so long in order to sell his wares in the streets for a profit. Though amidst my reading, It seemed that the Kabuliwallah had a romantic feelings to the little one, Mini. But, I was wrong due to the fact that he was just made friends with Mini because he finds her as his daughter left in his own country.



Furthermore, I noticed that the story pointed out a class discrimination or racism where in Mini.s mother said that beware of that man. saying that she has a full of doubts about the Kabuliwallah and uses to beg the narrator to keep a watchful eye on the peddler. However, we can't deny that somehow we discriminate person over his physique, place, personality and so forth, in which, sometimes we were wrong. But, I have a question that would allow you to think deeply. Will you be in peace if your son or daughter had a stranger friend who came from Afghanistan? Since, we had have an information about Kabul, Afghanistan. A city that has been damaged by numerous civil wars and continues to be center of conflict in the Middle East.




By the way, charaterization is the way in which the author shows a charters personality. One's you are a writer you should know how to  use several methods in revealing personality. There are some exposures of personality through character's actions, thoughts, and words. Compared to other story I read. " The Man from Kabul", is an example of revealing character by action. Such as, in the story, it stated that he put his hand inside the big loose robe and brought out a small and dirty piece of paper. Unfolding it with great care, he smoothed it out with both hands. Not a photograph. Not a drawing. Merely the impression of the hand of his own little daughter he had carried always next to his heart, as he had come year after year to Calcutta to sell his wares in the streets. This revelation of action shows Rahman, the man from Kabul, as of how he treasure his daughter and as a loving father.

 

Moreover, it also describes character by thoughts, "Tears came into my eyes. I forgot that he was poor kabuli fruit-seller, while I was. But no what was I more than he? he was also a father". These thoughts from the father of Mini, describes his reactions towards the Kabuliwallah for the father has a compassion and sense of fairness.