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In chapter five Malala goes through a lot of guilt. She has a friend that lived down the street that had a whole box of plastic play jewelry, and Malala had a pink plastic phone that her father had given her, she would pretend to talk on the phone whenever her father talked on his phone. Her friend with the play jewlery had been eyeing up Malala's toy phone for a while, and one day Malala could not find her phone. She later saw that the girl had a pink plastic phone that was identical to Malala's, so she assumed that the girl had stolen her phone. When Malala told the girl that it was her phone and that she had stolen it, the girl replied that she had bought in in the bazaar. Malala got angry, so when she went over to the girl's house to study, …show more content…

She states how proud she is that her country was the first to be the homeland of the Muslim religion . She states the Quran says that patience is needed, but she thinks it is still unfair that women are treated the way they are. She says that it is unfair that women have to stay at home cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children while the men get to go out in the world and work or become educated. She then compares this to the country's politicians,she says that they are misusing the opportunity. She says that India is made up of mostly Hindus and she some of them tried to cross the border into Pakistan, a Muslim country. Many of them were violently killed in the process, one of them being Malala's grandfather. What she just described was the mess all of it is, her country, her neighboring country, everything. Malala then talks about one of the areas of her country where they are very intensely emotional about their religion, in one celebration they whip themselves with chains and razors. She goes on to later state that Pakistan is a Place of many religions. This is supported by the lines “ but within again are many groups.” page 50. I believe the reason she talks about all of this is for multiple reasons. First she wants to show how diverse one place can be even if the place is supposed to only be of one religion, supported by “We …show more content…

Her family had just moved again to an apartment building, there were two stories in the building and a water tower on top. Malala's mother was scared because she thought the building was going to collapse on them, but Malala's father told her that the day they die is written by God and you cannot change that. They then want to bed, and Malala explained that whenever there is a disaster their family thinks that it is the day of judgment and they look back on all of their sins. It was a very large earthquake, Malala states that more than 73,000 people had been killed in it. Communicated by the words “ More than 73,000 million people had been killed” page 55. Malala the tells about how her government would not help them and other organizations had to come in and help. She spoke about a locally based foreign aid company, TNSM, one of the publishers of some of their school books gave them supplies and money, the Americans (especially those in Afghanistan), and the JuD who set up camps with hospital tents and good medical equipment. Getting to the place where Malala lived was difficult, her father had gone up into the mountains to help some of their family and told Malala that coming back was challenging because of the boulders, missing roads and rivers. The first to come to the rescue were the TNSM, they sent in helpers. The second, America, bringing in helicopters of supplies and helpers. Some of the supply packs would

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