Is Malala A Hero

Growing up in Mingora, Pakistan rising up from Taliban oppression, battling injustice in the school’s education system, and surviving a terrorist attack as a fifteen-year-old girl can really take a toll on somebody. However, Malala Yousafzai did it all. Even though the things Malala had to go through were challenging and unexplainably difficult, it would be an honor to trade places with her. Malala didn’t become a hero because she survived a fatal shooting. That incident was only just a road block in her mission. It is not her story that makes her a hero, but what she represents and what she is fighting for. Malala is a hero because she represents all women in the world that are persecuted against. She is a hero for her representation of courage
for her people. And she is a hero because she stood up for what she believed in. She is willing to pay any price to make the world a better place. A hero can be of any age, any gender, or any race. They don’t always have to be wearing a cape. I hope to someday obtain a fraction of Malala’s heroicness, courage, and greatness.