breadwinner chapter 2

They are searching for Western propaganda and influence. They search the apartment and grab Parvana’s father, yelling that Afghanistan doesn’t need his foreign ideas. They beat him and Parvana’s mother. As two soldiers drag her father away, Parvana worries that the other two, who are tearing open their mattresses and going through cupboards, will find her father’s hidden compartment full of English books. She throws herself at them and they beat her with sticks until they go away. Thinking it’s a solider, Parvana flinches when her sister Maryam comes over and strokes her hair. The family trembles as the chapter ends.