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Adil Pasha
Farooq is a cousin of Parvaiz’s friend, and he becomes Parvaiz’s mentor and recruiter to ISIS. Farooq is in his thirties and is described as a “compact but powerfully built man.” Farooq seeks out Parvaiz after learning that his father is Adil Pasha. He lures Parvaiz in by telling him stories of his father as a hero, and he becomes a sort of father figure for Parvaiz in training him to endure pain (which he frames as experiencing what his father experienced) and in teaching him “how to be a man.” Farooq ultimately convinces Parvaiz to join ISIS, but he disappears from Parvaiz’s life quickly after they arrive in Syria. When Parvaiz tries to escape in Turkey, Farooq tracks him down and kills him outside the British consulate.
Farooq Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Farooq or refer to Farooq. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
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They’d returned most of the items they took, but not the pictures of Adil Pasha climbing a mountain, sitting beside a campfire, wading across a stream—sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of other men, always smiling, always with a gun slung over his shoulder or cradled in his lap. When you’re old enough, my son, his father had inscribed inside it, which made Parvaiz’s mother furious for reasons he didn't then understand.
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Or Farooq would talk and Parvaiz would listen to those stories of his father for which he’d always yearned—not a footloose boy or feckless husband but a man of courage who fought injustice, saw beyond the lie of national boundaries, kept his comrades’ spirits up through times of darkness.
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The ache in his back had begun to recede and he remembered how, before the pain had become too unbearable for any thought beyond his own suffering, he had turned his head toward the wall, toward the photograph of his father, and there was this understanding, I am you, for the first time.
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Farooq Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Farooq or refer to Farooq. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
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They’d returned most of the items they took, but not the pictures of Adil Pasha climbing a mountain, sitting beside a campfire, wading across a stream—sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of other men, always smiling, always with a gun slung over his shoulder or cradled in his lap. When you’re old enough, my son, his father had inscribed inside it, which made Parvaiz’s mother furious for reasons he didn't then understand.
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Or Farooq would talk and Parvaiz would listen to those stories of his father for which he’d always yearned—not a footloose boy or feckless husband but a man of courage who fought injustice, saw beyond the lie of national boundaries, kept his comrades’ spirits up through times of darkness.
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The ache in his back had begun to recede and he remembered how, before the pain had become too unbearable for any thought beyond his own suffering, he had turned his head toward the wall, toward the photograph of his father, and there was this understanding, I am you, for the first time.
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