Notion mythes et héros, anglais

Myths and heroes

I’m going to talk about the notion myths and heroes. A hero is a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Our example concerns a modern hero, a person who has performed a heroic act since Malala Yousafzai.

To illustrate the myths and heroes I’ll take the example of Malala’s life story. The question I’ll try to answer is: to what extent can Malala be considered a heroine?

Firstly we will ask ourselves how malala is a normal teenager and then see how she became a heroine

First Malala was born on the 12th of July in Mingora in the North-west Pakistan. Later her father named her Malalai, a Pashtun heroine. She is very close to her father they have similar views on life. Malala shared her father’s passion for learning and loved going to school. Next we can see that she is an ordinary teenager thanks to the report on the Malala’s life story, she is playing cricket with her brothers in a Birmingham park, she says the hardest thing to adapt to when she went to Birmingham, was the weather.  She is picnicking with her family she is eating crisps so they look very close to each other and her father seems to be very proud of her. As regard to her education we can see she is used to being interviewed so she speaks very clearly and calmly. She sounds very mature.

However, Malala leads a double life, the one of a heroine. In 2009, as the Taliban’s military hold on Swat intensified, Malala began writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym. Malala and her father received death threats but continued to speak out for the right to education. Malala was featured in a documentary made for The New York Times and was revealed as the author of the BBC blog. In 2011, at the age of 14 years old, she received Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize and was nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children Peace Prize. Yet in response to her rising popularity and national recognition, Taliban leaders voted to kill her. And it is on the 9th of October 2012, Malala was shot with a single bullet which went through her head, neck and shoulder. She survived the initial attack, but was in critical condition. Following her attack, 2 million people signed a right to education petition, and the National Assembly swiftly ratified Pakistan’s first right to free and compulsory education bill. Finally, in 2014 Malala accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on the 10th of December. She donated 1.1million dollar prize money to finance the creation of a secondary school for girls in Pakistan. So this thanks to all what she has accomplished that we can consider Malala as a heroine.

To conclude to be a heroine, you must be a person who an admired for doing something very brave or achieving something great. It must be distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility and fortitude, and Malala has all this.  

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