Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Author · Suzanne Fisher Staples Type of Job · Type of Fiction · Young Adult Novel, Issue Fiction Language · Mid 1980's; Washington DC Initial Publication Date · 1989 Publisher · Knopf Narrator · Shabanu Perspective · Shabanu The hero speaks stories. She reports objectively only what she has observed, but she shares inferences about her insights, thoughts, and events and roles. Tone Shabanu speaks in a clear and simple voice. Her view reflects that she is a teenager, trying to understand the world around her and the role she is changing.

In Shazanu, Suzanne Fisher, Shabanu has to find his identity. Shabanu is influenced by her family, especially her entirely different sister, Phulan. Phulan is very beautiful, like a mother she helped around the house. Shabanu is rough and strong like their father and helps him to work with camels and other gardens. When they were adults, they were engaged. In the past few years, Shabanu helped her father and animals, this year she has to learn to cook food and clean the house. Shiba must be ready to marry and learn to live his life. She is engaged in her beloved Murad, and she gets married after she gets birth age. Shabanu's older sister Phulan is engaged in Murad's younger brother Hamir. The family of Shabanu is preparing for the next two marriages

When Shabanu's family arrived in the land of Hamir, Shabanu and Phulan had trouble between Hamir's family and wealthy landlord. Shabanu took landlords from his pride and brought the killings of Phulan's fiancee who greatly destroyed her. She is looking forward to starting Hamill and her own family. Shabanu 's family decided Phulan to marry Shabanu' s fiance fellow Murad. Her parents also decided that Shabanu will marry Rahim-Sahib, a more powerful brother of evil landlord. When Rahim - Sahib saw Shabanu for the first time, he fell in love with her. Shabanu was dissatisfied with his parents' decision. It is because she decided to tell her that she had to marry Rahim - Sahib, who was misused for bringing peace to his parents. After Phulan's wedding, Shabanu and her parents returned home, and Shabanu had to wait and prepare for the next ritual of Rahim-Sabbu. Shabanu is afraid of marrying him