desert flower

How does the text related to the theme of a journey?

Waris, a little girl who lived in Somalia. Her destiny had a dramatic change since she escaped from her family and started her lonely, tough and bitter-sweet journey. She walked through the desert, escaped from being attacked by the lion, ran away from being raped by the evil men, worked as a maid at her relative house and finally became a successful black model. After she had succeeded in her life, she tried her best to help to alter the African cultures which mutilated the black women, all the way from Africa to America for over four thousand years.

What is the main issue in the text?

This novel emphasizes on the hard work of a little African girl to change her life from a normal black woman who was always discriminated by men into a great model who controlled her life by her own hands. Waris was not satisfied with her life, thus, she chose not to follow the path taken by most of the people but something special and extraordinary.

From a different perspective, this novel shows us the true tragedies happened in Africa and even in the advanced country, America. Females were forced to be circumcised. An uncircumcised woman is regarded as dirty, oversexed and unmarriageable. This inequality between men and women is due to the ignorance and selfishness of men apart from lack of awareness among women.

What quality do u admire or dislike in a character?

Undeniably, Waris’s mama impresses me the most. She sacrificed a lot yet with just very few complaints. And all along her children, knew that she gave what she had, without reservation. For example, Waris’s mama never took a bite of food until everyone else had eaten. Even though she lost her beloved children, Old Man and a baby girl who was six month old, she still remained her strength and courage to continue struggling for her remaining children.

Besides that, Waris’s mama helped Waris to escape from home even though she knew that disobeyed her husband’s demand. She did it just because of her lovely daughter, Waris. She had tirelessly nurtured her twelve children. After Waris left the family, Waris’s mama had to take over all the heavy burdens, she had to feed her children as well as her husband, take good care of the animals and handle the other household work. Her generosity of spirit and inner and outer beauty are legendary.

How does the text develop your understanding of the world?

This text teaches me the meaning of life, alters my mindset and makes me to understand more about the inequality between both genders and the torture and mutilation endured by the women. We must know that men are destroying women in so many ways. The problems these women face in their entire lives are incredible.

Women are God’s precious creation. They are not men’s servant. No one can hurt them and no one can look down on them. Men and women are equal in every way. Women are actually men’s friends and companions. Tradition or not, culture or not, this is the time for us to put an end to all these discrimination. Apart from that, Desert Flower has enlighten my scope of view towards this world and broaden my spectrum of knowledge in facing the obstacles on the path towards success.

Waris, as a role model ,who started off with nothing, moved towards the stairway of success step by step, made her goal through hard work. At last, her hardwork paid off. This should be taken as a lesson for us to evaluate ourselves and be grateful and not give up easily when we encounter problems on the road of life. Life is made to have tonnes of obstacles and miles of difficulties . However, these obstacles and difficulties are meant to be solved. God purposely created such tough life for the humans is to make one understands the world better. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” If you are scared of failure then you are away of success. Success is the building up’s of failures. Failures is the sole route towards success. One cannot stay away from them neither does one can escape from them. Hence, we should break the failures but not escaping from failures.