Sold by Patricia McCormick and I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai are both great books that deal with different world problems. Both books do a excellent job conveying their story to the reader, but one slightly beats the other. I am Malala is true story about a girl fighting for her education and is shot doing so, it is seen through the eyes of a young pakistani girl who stands up for equality. Sold is a realistic fiction story, a poor 13 year old girl from the nepal whose family is in desperate need of money needs to go work in the city to help support the family. Lakshmi the 13 year old is tricked into working as a slave and cannot escape Sold By Patricia McCormick begins off by telling us about a small village in nepal where a little girl
Sold the novel is about a young 13 year old Nepali girl named Lakshmi who gets sold as a sex slave. Lakshimis
This is a book about a young woman named Sundara who is from Cambodia. Chamroeun is a guy who Sundaras parents want her to marry because it is custom in Cambodia that the parents pick who their children will marry. Sundara falls in love with Chamroeun but that has to end because he goes off to fight in the war. It is about how she lived with a group of people (tribe) and one day Khmer Rouge came and tried to take over their village, Phnom Penh. Sundara, her family and the rest of Phnom Penh ran to a boat and they sailed away, planning to go to America. Back then people from different countries were lead to believe that America was a perfect place and you could be or do anything you desired, well that obviously isn't the
Both of these stories brings up a theme of to never give up in very similar but also very different ways. In the stories Women Leaders: Malala Yousafzai by Newsela and Fantasy Baseball by Alan Gratz readers experience the them in similar and different ways because one protagonist wants to help others, they both faced very difficult challenges, and they both are wanted by somebody.
The novel follows an 11 year old girl named Liesel,
Although each story tells its own distinct tale, the similarities between Malala and Liesel in two distinct stories are uncanny. In her memoir, Malala shares her brave and courageous story about standing for herself and others who can’t raise their voices. I Am Malala is Malala’s narrative of the actions and events that made her who she is today. Throughout the memoir, Malala walks us through how she found her voice, and continues to help others project theirs. In the fictional story, The Book Thief, Liesel is a young girl whose resilience is demonstrated through her advocative actions.
This novel starts off on June 9, 1976, in California with an African American Girl named Dana on her 26th birthday with her husband Kevin and are moving into their new home. Kevin has started to unpack his office and Dana is unpacking books. Then Kevin walks out of the office to talk to Dana when Dana all of a sudden starts to get dizzy and Dana then finds herself in a grove of trees thats in the late 1800’s in the state of Maryland by a nearby river when she spots a young boy drowning named Rufus. She then goes into the river to save the unconscious boy. Once the boy has came back to life and she dealt with his mother she reappears back into her apartment. Several minutes later she begins to feel dizzy again and then disappears.
The setting of this book is in Terri’s childhood home in Ontario Canada. The time period is the 1960s-1970s.
The book starts out with the Khmer Rouge army, taking over Cambodia, and is threatening all the families there because of all the gun shootings. There is a family, Tep Naro, in the village of Ream. Naro and Soka are the parents and they have 2 children Ravy, Pon, and a newborn baby. Naro and Sokas niece Saundra comes to help them take care of the baby and escaped the bombing and she was forced to leave her family and the boy she loved. Saundra finds out that the Khmer rouge are heading their way and they must evacuate their house and board a ship with no idea where they are headed too. While they are on the ship the baby dies from malnutrition and saundra blames herself for letting the baby die. Four years later they are still living in the
Personal Reflection Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, a Pulitzer Prize winning US Journalist, telling the stories of the people of Annawadi. I liked this book because Boo spent four years in Annawadi (P-249), a slum near Mumbai airport to capture their stories, which is full of dreams, hope, aspiration, suicides, brutal murder and how they struggled to survive. I also liked how the author captured the economic disparity, poverty and humanity of the people of Annawadi. I am glad that someone in US has a reason, courage and motivation to bring the living conditions of three thousand people in three hundred huts to this world. I am fascinated when I realized Boo’s reason - “what it takes to get out of poverty in one of the richest
In I am Malala, the memoir, a young girl shot by the name of Malala Yousafzai, was shot by the Taliban because she stood up for education. Malala’s struggle inspires me as a student who is preparing to embark on my college journey. Malala went through many struggles in her young life. One struggle Malala faced was that she could not walk around without a male relative.
Somaly Mam, The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine (New York: Random House, 2009).
While in Kathmandu, one of Nepal’s major cities, Conor discovers seven children living in horrid, filthy conditions. He can not bear to simply leave them to waste away. But since Conor must go back to America before the civil war leads to a cease of all transportation, he gives the responsibility of the rescue of the children to Gyan, a Nepalese official, who is also Conor’s friend. However, before the children can be recovered, they are abducted by Golkka. Guilt begins to overwhelm Conor as all he can recall is his promise to the children that “somebody is coming for them, somebody who could they trust.. who would take them to a safe place” (101). After hours of tireless research, he establishes an organization, Next Generation Nepal, that would free trafficked children and also attempt to find their families. Conor returns to Nepal, and goes to Humla, the impoverished province where the all the children originally came from. For a month he endures physical, emotional and mental struggles in the mountainous territory to find the families, explain to them their children is alive and to stop the cycle of child trafficking. Over the course of a year, the seven children are found and brought to Conor’s new children’s home, Dhaulagiri
Malala wrote "I am Malala" because she did something that most people would never think about doing, she went against the Taliban. She wasn't afraid of the consequences, all she knew was that she wanted education rights for all women, which had been taken away from her when the Taliban invaded Pakistan. I think Malala stands for all of the women in the world who have been treated unfairly, and many women look up to her because of that. A lot of people look up to Malala for her strength, hope and bravery, and a book would be a way to get an inside on her story but also something for people to read, to gather more information and inspiration about
This Book has impacted my social and cultural views. The analysis of Malala’s life gave me a better appreciation for my own life, as well as a greater
Malala is a Pakistani citizen who gained international recognition for campaigning and confronting Taliban ideals against women's rights especially education. A few years ago she published a book called "I am Malala" where she discusses the problems she faced along her life in search for the right of education. The narrative gives the reader a window into how politics, tradition and family tradition's influence Malala's personality and thoughts.