Sharbat Green eyes defiant
...n and ended up in a refugee camp where she was found again. The photographer Steven McCurry was seeking Sharbat for all the time she was lost and made her one of the world’s most famous faces. “No one knows for sure” refers to Sharbat’s age as hardship erased her youth. In the picture on the right Sharbat looks a lot older than she is claimed to be, looking about 40 to 50 years old. The author uses many techniques throughout the article including similes, metaphors and personification. Firstly, paradox is used in the first paragraph in the line ‘they are only at peace when there are at war, and her eyes then and now burn with ferocity’ making a contradiction and emphasising the Pashtun tribes who love war. Metaphors are also used, for example ‘There is not one family that has not eaten the bitterness of war’ to emphasise that people in those days and in that country have all experienced and has been bitterly affected by war. ...