Malala Yousafzai's Out Of The Shadows
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw
Out of Shadows, a historical fiction book by Jason Wallace tells the story of Robert Jacklin, a teen whose family moves from England to Zimbabwe in the 1980s. There, he faces rampant racism inside and out of his boarding school against the black Africans. I am Malala, a memoir by Malala Yousafzai is about Malala’s life in Pakistan’s Swat Valley where she and others face the daily threat of the Taliban. She becomes an important campaigner for girl’s rights and later survives a Taliban shooting that just barely misses her brain. Breaking away from traditional values can change a person’s thinking, ways of life, and …show more content…
In Out of the Shadows, most of the white people in Zimbabwe are oblivious to the hardships that the native Africans go through. However, Robert finds out how the African children are treated by whites when he visits a village full of injured kids. “‘They’re not games, they’re barbaric, the things we’ve done. Cruel.’” (Wallace 233). After realizing how bad he and other whites treat the children, he breaks away from the traditional value of stomping over black people and acting like they are lesser people. This changes his thinking from feeling like they are good for nothing, to realizing how oppressed they are. In I am Malala, Malala values going to school very much, as it is uncommon for a girl to go to school and learn instead of taking care of her family. The Taliban, a large terrorist group that takes over the area, says girls cannot go to school, but she ignores them. “‘They can stop us going to school, but they can’t stop us learning.’” (Yousafzai 161) Malala shows that she doesn’t want to follow the traditional values of her Muslim, male-dominated culture. Her thinking changes to wanting to go to school as a girl more than anything else. Breaking away from traditional cultural values changes your thinking. Your daily decisions, actions, and your entire way of life can also change because of this new
Out of Shadows, a historical fiction book by Jason Wallace tells the story of Robert Jacklin, a teen whose family moves from England to Zimbabwe in the 1980s. There, he faces rampant racism inside and out of his boarding school against the black Africans. I am Malala, a memoir by Malala Yousafzai is about Malala’s life in Pakistan’s Swat Valley where she and others face the daily threat of the Taliban. She becomes an important campaigner for girl’s rights and later survives a Taliban shooting that just barely misses her brain. Breaking away from traditional values can change a person’s thinking, ways of life, and …show more content…
In Out of the Shadows, most of the white people in Zimbabwe are oblivious to the hardships that the native Africans go through. However, Robert finds out how the African children are treated by whites when he visits a village full of injured kids. “‘They’re not games, they’re barbaric, the things we’ve done. Cruel.’” (Wallace 233). After realizing how bad he and other whites treat the children, he breaks away from the traditional value of stomping over black people and acting like they are lesser people. This changes his thinking from feeling like they are good for nothing, to realizing how oppressed they are. In I am Malala, Malala values going to school very much, as it is uncommon for a girl to go to school and learn instead of taking care of her family. The Taliban, a large terrorist group that takes over the area, says girls cannot go to school, but she ignores them. “‘They can stop us going to school, but they can’t stop us learning.’” (Yousafzai 161) Malala shows that she doesn’t want to follow the traditional values of her Muslim, male-dominated culture. Her thinking changes to wanting to go to school as a girl more than anything else. Breaking away from traditional cultural values changes your thinking. Your daily decisions, actions, and your entire way of life can also change because of this new