Martha Adams Girl Rising Analysis

A new mother, barely a teenager, lies on the dirt floor, her eyes are closed and her hands are tightly wrapped around those of her sisters’. She has been in labor for several hours, sweating, screaming, in terrible pain, and without the supervision of a medical professional, but she is not concerned about what she feels. The only thought running through her mind, causing her to worry, is the hope that the baby is a boy. If it is, then she has done a good job in creating a useful member of society, but if it is a girl, the baby faces limited freedom and the mother will regret having her. The girl would only endure the same treatment that her mother has. The lucky boy will be educated, proud, and free, the unfortunate girl will be uneducated, …show more content…
It is about several different girls in different countries and it tells their stories, the sexual assaults, the lack of education, the child marriages, the hardships, and their dreams that go unnoticed every day. The last girl in the film was given the name Amina because she did not feel safe enough to show her face or give her real name in fear of being killed by male members in her family for dishonoring them. Early in her story she speaks about her own mother, an average woman who,“...never learned to read or write. She has never opened a book, written in a diary...I learned that this is the way things were always intended to be for the women…”(Girl Rising, 2013). Amina understood that this is how the world works, and would continue to work if it did not change. Her mother was illiterate, similar to thousands of other women in her country. This may have been her observation, but it was not her own destination. It is crucial to point out that few girls dreamed of being anything more than what their sex told them they could be. Amina inspired change, knowing that being educated and literate would benefit her substantially, even if it was