Desert Flower Essay

As they say, everyone has one story to write abtaboo their feature. But when you switch a story like that of Waris Dirie, it will make a oblige truly worth reading.Last weekend while I was shop at the local scriptstore, I picked up Desert Flower. Waris Dirie grew up as a nomad in Somalia, until she ran way from home at the age of 14. With no language skills, no formal education and not much of immaterial support, the lady goes on to become a model and then a UN Ambassador. She has been subjected to so many another(prenominal) horrors, which would have definitely crushed a lesser human being. How does anyone not feel bitter after being subjected to venereal mutilation at the age of five and then having had to survive a some rape attempts?At every step of the way, she is faced with so many hardships and you often find yourself wondering how in the world would she get out of this one? You find yourself wishing that somehow, she would. And then miraculously, she does. If it we re fiction, I would have scoffed at it saying its too far-fetched. But that this is someones real bearing makes it truly exceptional. For many breaks of the book, I mat that I was part of a surreal world. After a long time, I felt like this was a book that stretched the boundaries of my imagined world life in an African desert had definitely been a black box to me.The book is intumesce written. I loved the simple way in which the story is told. It is in stark contrast to the twists and turns that happens in the story matter. And that the book treats some of the unfortunate, ignominious I should say, incidents so matter of factly leaves it to the reader to fill up the emotions which is much(prenominal) a better way of writing, than to try and direct our feelings.Despite all(prenominal) the differences that most readers would have with the author, the book has a universal appeal. At the core, it is a story of human determination and grit. A young woman who, with her self-ass ertion and perseverance, overcomes the many prejudices, myriad difficulties and outright injustices to find a place of her own in this world and to then strive towards making this world a better place for the rest of us to live in. Now isnt that who we all really wish we were whether we are born a Somali nomad or not?All in a all, a book not to be missed.