Today in English, we discussed these 2 essential questions
1):How do people stand up for their beliefs?
2): What do personal stories teach us about our connections to others' cultures and humanity?)
For the first essential question, How do people stand up for their beliefs?, I said that Malala and her family don't give up on the things they love and what they believe in, for example Malala's fathers school. In the book it says "For us a turban is a public symbol of chivalry and Pashtun-ness, and for a man to lose his turban is considered a great humiliation. But then he started up again. "I never said those things to your clerk. He is lying." My father had had enough. 'You have no business here,' he shouted. 'Go away!' (Yousafzai 99).
For the second essential question, What do personal stories teach us about our connections to others' cultures and humanity? I said that it teaches us about how things effect people differently around the world. Obvisouly, 9/11 had a different effect on the people who live in the U.S. and the people who live across the world. For Malala it caused war and chaos in her country according to her.
This quote says that other people thought differently. "some of our religious people saw Osama bin Laden as a hero. These people said 9/11 was revenge on the Americans for what they had been doing to other people around the world, but they ignored the fact that the people in the World Trade Center were innocent and had nothing to do with American policy and that the Holy Quran clearly says it is wrong to kill" (Yousafzai 85).
I think what Malala stands for and what she has done is awesome. She has truly made a difference in the world. Sooo.. Im just trying to encourage all you readers out there to take charge of your beliefs and don't let anyone try to bring you down!!
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