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In the COMMENT write three things you WONDERed about while you read.
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When our bus was called, we ran down the school steps.
The bus was actually a white Toyota truck with three parallel benches. It was
cramped with 20 girls and three teachers. I was sitting on the left between
Moniba and a girl named Shazia Ramzan, all of us holding our exam folders to
our chests.
Inside the
bus it was hot and sticky. In the back, where we sat, there were no windows,
just plastic sheeting, which was too yellowed to see through. All we could see out the back was a little
stamp of open sky and glimpses of the sun, a yellow orb floating in the dust
that streamed over everything.
Then
suddenly we stopped. A young bearded man had stepped into the road.
“Is this the
Khushal School bus?” he asked our driver.
Usman
BhaiJan though this was a stupid question, as the name was painted on the
side.
“Yes,” he
said.
“I need
information about some children”, said the man.
“You should
go to the office,” said Usman Bhai Jan. As he was speaking, another young man
approached the back of the van.
“Look it’s one
of those journalists coming to ask for an interview,” said Moniba. Since I’d
started speaking events with my father, journalists often came, though not
like this, in the road.
The man was
wearing a peaked cap and had a handkerchief over his nose and mouth. Then he swung himself onto the tailboard
and leaned in over to us.
“Who is
Malala?” he demanded.
No one said
anything, but several of the girls looked at me. I was the only girl with my
face uncovered. That’s when he lifted up a black pistol. Some of the girls screamed.
Moniba tells me I squeezed her hand.
My friends
say he fired three shots. The first went through my left eye socket and out
under my left shoulder. I slumped forward onto Moniba, blood coming from my
left ear, so the other two bullets hit the girls next to me. One bullet went
into Shazia’s left hand. The third
went through her left shoulder and into the upper right arm of Kainat Riaz.
My friends
later told me the gunman’s hand was shaking as he fired.
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1) Why did the gunman want to shoot the girl? 2) How badly were the girls hurt? 3) Did the gunman not want to shoot the girl, or did he feel bad about doing it, because his hand was shaking?
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