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Compare And Contrast Priscilla And The Wimps

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Do you like reading books that inspire you to know how to be brave and fearless?In I Am Malala Nobel Lecture she delivered a speech about her life story of how she fought for girl's education.
In Priscilla and the Whimps, it is a story of school bullies and a very fearless girl named Priscilla. I would recommend these two texts because they are very entertaining and can help you learn how to do something or learn about the past.

Priscilla and the Wimps and I Am Malala should be selected for the book club because they communicate important qualities of fearlessness and braveness in both of the texts.Malala showed braverly in fighting for girls' education because she stood up and tried to fix a known problem that nobody would fix.In Malala’s Nobel Lecture, she said “I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. “ Malala had choices to choose and so she chose the braver choice. In Malala’s Nobel …show more content…

The text shows this because in a school there is a bully gang with the leader Munk Clutter that bullies everyone, and one day the bullies decide to bully this one boy named Melvin, then Melvin’s friend Priscilla sees them bullying Melvin and steps up to help Melvin. In the text, it says “Then, quicker than the eye, she brings the side of her enormous hand down in a chop that breaks the Kobra’s hold on Melvin’s throat.”. Also in the texts, it says “ frog-marches Monk into her own locker. It’s incredible. His ostrich-skin boots click once in the air. And suddenly he’s gone, neatly wedged into the locker, a perfect fit. Priscilla bangs the door shut, twirls the lock, and strolls out of school.”.In my opinion, this text shows how someone can stand up for the people that they care about and help a lot of people in the doing. For those reasons, I would recommend this text because it shows acts of bravery and

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