Page 60

"as we walkd out of the flat my brother looked at my sideways and said you are going to wear that?"

This is a very hard time for waris brother to accept that his sister is wearing european clothes. For Waris it is normal. It takes time for waris brother to get used that her sister is no longer wearing somali clothes, she is wearing thight jeans with normal top. By the way Waris brother Can't change his mind over a day. I choose this quote beacuse i can understand waris brother. He came from a country where all women and girls wearing somali clothes and shawl but suddenly everything changes after seeing his own sister with europeen clothes.


Page 65


"they shoot at everything if they are high or bored-anything except khat smugglers"

To just shoot a person when you are bored are the sickest thing a man can do. This proves that the killers have no heart, no respect and totaly brainwashed. Anyway why don't the killers murder the khat smugglers? My thoughts about this are that the killer's need khat and steal it from the smugglers that's why they dont kill the smugglers. This is a sign of a bad country and you can't even trust your own people. (The problem is not only in somalia)


Page 73

"When i was a girl, all of his attention was for the boys"

She is talking about her father who didn't care about waris when she was kid beacuse she was a girl. The boys have more value then the girls. The parents belive is that the sons will be their future solutions beacuse the girls are getting married and have their own lifes with their in-laws. This usually happens in poor countries. I think this is not a positive sign, parents should love their children equal no matter what.