Malala Yousafzai Essay

Jon Carr Bildungs Who? Period 4 Mr. Danforth
In 2014 Malala Yousafazai became the youngest laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize when confronting conflicts with her society, regarding women's education in the Middle East. Showing unwavering bravery and dedication to her beliefs proved nearly fatal from a gunshot wound to the head. In another act of courage, Malala spoke out against the tyrannical rhetoric of republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who recently made incredibly insensitive comments regarding Muslims. She responded against this hate with maturity and conviction, not standing for injustice. Malala's stance against the grain of society is similar to Mark Twain's main character from his coming of age novel The Adventures of
Why is he putting so much on the line to save this runaway slave? He faces an intense moral dilemma between his societies opinions and something inside of him that says helping Jim is imperative. He feels bad for assisting Jim because he is hurting Miss Watson, Jim's owner. He really struggles with this because Miss Watson had never hurt Huck, in fact she tried to help him early on in the story. Huck blames himself for helping Jim, stating, "you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody" (82). After wrestling with this problem for a bit longer, Huck was presented an opportunity to rat out Jim when a skiff with two men called passed by. They asked Huck who else was in the raft with him and he answered "it's pap that's there . . . He's sick" (84). Once again, Huck conjures up a brilliant lie which scares the men from boarding the raft, and saves Jim's life. Huck faces an important "fork in the road" with his relationship with Jim, and through his actions he chooses to further his moral development, but at the cost of potentially being ridiculed by his
Holden Caulfield, from J. D. Saliger's Catcher in the Rye, attempted to put off this molding by running running away to the "Big Apple". During his "road trip" through New York City he faces challenges that lead him to maturing. Similarly, Huckleberry Finn faced much adversity throughout the novel. He gradually became aware of the society he was growing up in. Huck underwent transfiguration becoming aware of life's worth, no matter if you were a murderer, a slave, or a victim. He became acutely aware that every human being is a distinctive individual that needs to be treated as