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Malala Yousafzai is a strong person because of her recovery after her ghastly,gunshot wound. After going to school Malala was on the bus when, the bus was stopped and a member of the Taliban came inside menacingly. He asked "Who is Malala?" and when all of the students were looking at Malala the Taliban member took out his gun and shot her twice. Malala was only fifteen back then and she had gotten shot in the left side of her forehead. Now, after her surgeries for the wound she had to learn how to use her right limbs , had to have an implant to help her hear and had to have a titanium plate drilled into her skull.

When the bullet hit Malala it made her brain bulge up.Therefore, her motor skills on her right limbs were not up to speed. She …show more content…

Hence, she had to get a cochlear implant, which is, "a small, complex electronic device that provides a sense of sound to someone who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing."(Mackey,The New York Times)When Malala got her implant the doctors said that the implant had no complications, but still for Malala to hear properly one day and the next day she can't hear at all it would still very hard to be in her shoes. This proves that Malala is ardent because she was able to go through the toil of getting multiple surgeries and still not getting angry or hurtful about …show more content…

Therefore, Malala had to go through five hours of surgery to get the titanium plate into the right place. Albeit,the surgery had gone in the right direction and there wasn't any confusion, nobody would ever want to go through five hours of surgery to replace your skull bone. This confirms that Malala is a hearty person because of her determination to not give up and to not get exasperated because the Taliban shot her ruthlessly without any consideration that she was just a child who stood up for her rights and the rights of the 63 million children who can't go to school today(Do the Taliban make any

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