One Line Story: It tells the story of a girl Parwana, in order to rescue her innocent father who was imprisoned in prison, and to support her family, she dressed as a boy and finally protected her family against the background of strict Muslims and war.
The structure is clean and complete, and the B-story is about the protagonist's dead brother; Inciting Incident: Father gets caught. Progress: The mother took the heroine to prison and was beaten on the way; the heroine began to pretend to be a boy and failed to pay bribes. The twist: The heroine meets a man who can help and sends her to jail on Wednesday. Turn again: The person who picked up the mother and daughter to go to the cousin's place suddenly arrived early. Crisis: The mother, sister and brother were forcibly packed into the car and taken away without waiting for the heroine; the man who was willing to help went in to find the heroine's father, but was found. Climax: At a critical moment, the mother mustered up the courage to gamble with her life, let her sister and brother go, and drove away the person who forced them; the man with the heroine's father finally defeated the person who found him and brought out the father . Ending: Mom meets her sister and brother, the heroine pushes the injured dad, and the dad wakes up.
Story B: The heroine always hopes that she can take on the responsibility of supporting her family like her brother. She compiled her brother into a fairy tale to tell her brother, and as she played the boy day by day, the story progressed gradually. Waiting for her father outside the prison, and hiding in the war, she finally finished the story, and the courage she gave her brother in the story also made her persist to the end.
The final ending is a blank space, neither happy nor sad, just an endless void. Can their family meet again, and what kind of days await them in the future?
The friend that Parwana met who also disguised herself as a man was the part of her character that yearned for freedom, and it was split up here to become a new role. Before Parwana went to prison, saying goodbye to her friends was equivalent to completing her transformation, stripping her of her freedom and turning back to her family responsibilities.
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