The core text I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, and my supplemental text Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli both involve conflict and adversity disrupting characters’ everyday life. These themes both lead to the main events in the story and contribute to a majority of the book. Malala wouldn’t have become famous if she didn’t have to fight for education, and Stargirl wouldn’t have to of changed herself is she wasn’t unaccepted and discriminated by the students of Mica High.
In the core text I am Malala, a roaring conflict between the Taliban (a terrorist group) and the Pakistani Government corrupts Malala’s everyday life. The Taliban don’t want girls to go to school, and are blowing up schools around Pakistan. As Malala struggles to fight for education, the Taliban continue to take over Pakistan.
In Stargirl, Stargirl is seen as different and weird through the eyes of the students at Mica High. They are not used to people who stand out. At first students don’t know what to think about Stargirl, “Is this a joke?”, “Is this real?” they ask. After a while, they start shunning stargirl, not talking to her, all because she is different. Throughout the story Stargirl tried “being normal” but realized that isn’t the kind of person she is. In the end she becomes …show more content…
Malala fighting for herself and other girl’s education and Stargirl fighting to be liked by the students of Mica High. Over the course of the story, they both overcome challenges and in the end achieve or almost achieve their goal. Stargirl is liked in the end of the story and Malala and her cause have been recognized over the world, but both conflicts take place in different settings. The conflict in Malala’s story takes place in Pakistan, and Stargirl’s at Mica High, across the world from each other, but on a deeper level Stargirl is fighting a war of being accepted by classmates and Malala a war for education and freedom in her
In the core text I am Malala, a roaring conflict between the Taliban (a terrorist group) and the Pakistani Government corrupts Malala’s everyday life. The Taliban don’t want girls to go to school, and are blowing up schools around Pakistan. As Malala struggles to fight for education, the Taliban continue to take over Pakistan.
In Stargirl, Stargirl is seen as different and weird through the eyes of the students at Mica High. They are not used to people who stand out. At first students don’t know what to think about Stargirl, “Is this a joke?”, “Is this real?” they ask. After a while, they start shunning stargirl, not talking to her, all because she is different. Throughout the story Stargirl tried “being normal” but realized that isn’t the kind of person she is. In the end she becomes …show more content…
Malala fighting for herself and other girl’s education and Stargirl fighting to be liked by the students of Mica High. Over the course of the story, they both overcome challenges and in the end achieve or almost achieve their goal. Stargirl is liked in the end of the story and Malala and her cause have been recognized over the world, but both conflicts take place in different settings. The conflict in Malala’s story takes place in Pakistan, and Stargirl’s at Mica High, across the world from each other, but on a deeper level Stargirl is fighting a war of being accepted by classmates and Malala a war for education and freedom in her