Reading Response 2

 This Reading Response was to a story about a girl who was the minority in her town. She was trying her hardest to do her best in school but there were still outside forces working against her. 

Reading “Who is Malala” there were quite a few things that spoke out to me. At first, I was confused as to where the story took place. The characters introduced had specific thoughts and feelings about certain things. Things I had never heard of before. Their culture was extremely strict and supposititious. Religion played a huge role in their culture, which brought huge heartache because others in their community were against everything they stood for.  

There were very few personal connections in this story. Since it is in a whole different country with things I have never had to experience before. Although I had experienced a thing or two that the narrator had mentioned. I grew up in a small town surrounded by bigger towns. Crime was always something I feared. The constant feeling of being hurt or robbed at any given moment was always on the back of my mind. On thing that got mentioned was the amount of pressure she had felt by her parents and the school system to do well in school. The feeling of succeeding academically has always weighed heavily on me as it did the narrator.  

There were a few things mentioned in the story I was unaware of and that made me question certain parts in the story. What major event happened in their culture in the year of 2009? What were the issues of their daughters attending school with other faces/religion? Why would people kill innocent children just because of the changes in politics and other things.  

The author had my gears turning. I had multiple questions come up, but only one stuck with me heavily; Why did Malala act differently from other people in her community and culture?  

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