Half The Sky Summary

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A Call for Help The National Bestseller Half the Sky is an eye-opening, stirring book written by Nicolas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. It tells the stories of many courageous and remarkable women all over the world who suffer from injustice, brutal treatment, and struggle in hopes of a better tomorrow. The authors are researchers who travel and gather facts about the way women are being treated in different parts of the world. They put those stories and statistics into one book in hopes that the world will realize these problems will not be taken care of on their own. The authors started off strong by catching the reader’s attention with the story of Srey Rath, a brave young Cambodian girl who was captured and forced into prostitution…show more content…
I support giving food and money to charities, but “world hunger” is not the only thing that’s still wrong with this world. “A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water. ‘What are you doing, son?’ the man asks. ‘You see how many starfish there are? You’ll never make a difference.’ The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. ‘It sure made a difference to that one,’ he said (45).” The Hawaiian parable, this had to be the most inspiring part of the book to me. Hearing stories of how one person was able to do all these incredible things to make life better for people, I still feel uninspired. I don’t have the resources those people do; I would think I’m wasting my time unless it turns into one of those really huge projects and organizations I keep hearing about. That quote puts it in the most simplest way to let me know that I don’t need to save thousands of lives to make a difference, I can save one life and make all the difference in their

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