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This 8-page paper compares and contrasts Khadra's "Swallows of Kabul" and Wiesel's "Dawn," discussing the religious and moral considerations in both books. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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1990s and early 2000s. Certainly, both were struggling states. Yet while Palestine was struggling to become a nation to shelter a shell-shocked Jewish population in the wake of the Nazi
devastation, Afghanistan, in the 1990s, was still under the oppressive and Islamic fundamentalist rule of the Taliban. Along those lines, theres very little, on the surface, that can compare radical
Islamic fundamentalism with Judaism. Yet Yasmina Khadras novel Swallows of Kabul and Elie Wiesels novel Dawn are similar in many ways.
For one thing, both deal with what the authors portray as "justifiable" murder, building up in the readers mind what the protagonists suffered right before the heinous act.
In this paper, well compare and contrast both novels, determining how religion played a role in both of them, and drawing conclusions as to
the similarities between both works, despite having been written more than 40 years apart, and by two very different authors. SWALLOWS AND AFGHANISTAN
Released in 2004 and written under the pen name of Yasmina Khadra to avoid censorship, "Swallows of Kabul" is a gritty and realistic portrait of Afghanistan under the oppressive
reign of the Taliban. "The Afghan countryside is nothing but battlefields, expanses of sand and cemeteries," the author writes in the beginning of the book, setting up the reader for
the stark horrors that are about to follow. "By the end of the book, we have attended more than one public execution, witnessed unspeakable oppression and stared evil brutes in
the face," writes Adam Piore, in his review of the book (2004, pg. 52). The story is told through two different families,
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