Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a girl that was shot lately in the head. She was shot because of her beliefs of fairness in the world. She lives in Mingora, a northwest region of Pakistan. Her hometown was brought under Taliban rule. The Taliban wanted for the religion to be respected and strictly used everywhere. Malala was a brave little girl that wrote a dairy for the BCC Urdu. In this dairy she explained what she thought about all the unfair and forbidden  things the Taliban rule was opponing on her town, and the suffering they were facing because o the Taliban rule. The main reason she stood up for her rights was the closing of girls schools. The Taliban's prohibited the education for girls. Malala was shot and people wanted her dead because she respected herself and stood up for her rights. 

I think Malala was a very brave girl. Although she knew that exposing her real feelings and thoughts would be bad and dangerous for her and her family, she never gave up. She is supported by her parents who said they preferred having this risk, than the mayor risk of not letting people know about this. She clearly inspired a lot of people, because she was one of the little amount of voices that spoked out, and made people realize what was happening infront of their own eyes. Also her hard work to prove this events to people succeeded, because she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. And she was awarded the National Peace Award. She indeed was had great bravery and the great independence she had, to do all of this practically alone. I think that what was done to Malala was really wrong, because every person in t he world share the same human rights. As the the list of human rights states:

18. Freedom of belief and thought. 

19. Freedom of expression

26. The right for education

This three and probably more rights wer not given to Malala or to the people of her town. This rights were forgotten and they were apart from Malala when she was shot. Although the militants thought this was a lesson for her and for the people that wanted to follow her steps, it wasn't. It was an unfair act. Malala is not the bad one here the Talibans are, and they are making life impossible to so many people that don't deserve it.

List of HUman Rights: http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/ 

Persepolis

The Veil

In my life, there has been restrictions  but never as strict as shown in the book with the veils.  I mean I could have family restrictions such as rules, but never rules that implicated how to dress in an obligatory way. This chapter of Persepolis reminds me of a Holocaust book named "Sarah's Key" because at first the Jew kids didn't put attention to the stars the stars sewn on their clothes, they thought it was a game, such as the war. The kids thought it was all a big game, and at the beginning of the book the girls who were required to use the veils thought it was a game.

Persepolis

In a personal experience, I have never suffered hard times, but as a volunteer at homes and very poor towns, you can watch similar behaviors as the book is telling. Were kids told me stories of their parents working for the army, and how they waited for their dads to come back home, how they  waited for days even weeks. Kids told me how they saw lots of dead people from wars and wounded soldiers. You can relate this two different stories because in the book Marji waits for her father to come back home from taking pictures of a demonstration. And the part of dead people is how there were dead martyrs from the revolution.

The Sheep

This chapter reminds me of another Holocaust story, it is a movie called the "Pianist", in this movie the main character is looking desperately a way to move away from the city he is living in. He wants to leave everything for a new life, a new start. In the book it says how many families were moving out of Iran. Also it says how they looked for people who could cause problems, tortured them  and finally executed them. This relates to the Holocaust too because they gathered Jews or people against the german rule, they captured them, tortured them in concentration camps and then executed them in cruel ways. What will happen to Marji and her family now that war has started? Will they go to follow and start a new life? Or will they fight for the freedom of their country ?

The Passport

This chapter talks about how ill people hadn't a major importance as they should have. I can connect this chapter with my personal life, because when I was little and I had hited myself with a desk so i was bleeding a lot, but in the hospital they weren't paying any attention to my injury, so my parents got really mad. The doctors started talking about random stuff, which didn't help my case, until my parents were taking me somewhere else to help me, they decided to help me closed the opening in my chin. This relates to the chapter because Marji's uncle has a heart attack and the doctors wouldn't give him the help he needed. so Ebi, Marji's dad went to get a false passport to take the man to a place were they could help him. But he died before he even could get hold of the false passport.

The Dowry

In this chapter Marji's parents tell her all the dangers she is exposed when she shows independence and when she fights against the rules.  This reminds when my parents thought me the dangers of life, and things I am exposed every day. Then when Marji's parents tell her about how she will move to Vienna. This reminds me when I went for 3 months to France alone, it is not as big as Marji's move, but it must feel the same sadness and loneliness we both felt. Although both situations were for the best, the feelings stay the same. I wonder what will happen to Marji in Vienna? What will happen to her parent? Will they ever catch up with her daughter? What happened to Marji's mom at the airport? Will Marji be happy? And will she succeed away from her parents?