“Wüsten blume” is about the heroine Waris Dirie, who is unwilling to marry an older herder, secretly ran out at night without her mother, walked a lot of roads, experienced a lot of risks along the way, and finally wandered to the United States; Because of her good conditions, she was discovered as a model. But deep down in the heroine’s heart, she is puzzled by the traditional customs of her own nation. She wants to appeal to the tortured women: abolish the tradition of circumcision. Standing on the podium, she was the first person in the world to stand up and speak about the “tradition of female circumcision.”
Waris Dirie, the first half of her life was full of tragedy, she was raped by her father’s friend when she was four, and when she was five she was forced to undergo the female circumcision that had taken the life of her sister a few years ago. At the age of twelve, she was cheated by her father to marry a sixty-year-old old man for five camels. She escaped barefoot in the desert and almost became food in the mouth of a lion. After she arrived in the United States, she worked as a Filipino domestic helper. At that time, she didn’t speak English. This caused great trouble to her life and work, but fortunately, her good friends helped.
After watching “Wüsten blume”, in the beginning, I felt infinite sympathy for the protagonist, sympathized with her tragic fate, the mother with unbreakable traditional thinking; when she ran wildly in the cracked desert, the dry air-dried her When I lip, I have endless admiration for her. She is a fighter who has the courage to resist oppression and is so determined. In an unaccompanied foreign country, penniless, she must have experienced unimaginable hardships. Although her success does have great opportunities, her persistence, courage, and diligence cannot be ignored. After becoming famous, in the face of such ugly etiquette and customs, in order to prevent more African women from being tortured in this way, she bravely stood up to tell the story of her circumcision. This call has saved how many African women have been persecuted by rituals.
But what is most worthy of introspection in the whole drama is the cruel traditional culture of Africa. When modern civilization is surging and irrigating the world, it is hard to imagine that there is such a cruel etiquette in another corner of the world, but I believe that with With society’s emphasis on human rights, people will surely be able to escape this cruel sea of suffering.
The flower of the desert, with bravery, wisdom, and perseverance, allows us to see the hope in the desert！