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Thinking Thursday- here’s a scene from Zenobia – Challenging a Legend, book two which takes place mostly in ancient Alexandria while Zenobia studies with some of the finest scholars. She is talking with a couple scholar gentlemen who want to get to know her better because their close friend has an interest in her on a personal level. They question her about the experience of having to pretend to be a boy to stay alive and how that has affected her life thus far.
“First, I had to pretend to be something I wasn't That was oppressive and it robbed me of a measure of freedom! It restricted my ability to choose. It still irritates me to recall it, so I usually don’t.
“Second, though I survived, other baby girls did not. Didn't they have a right to grow up, to find what happiness they could in this crazy world? It offends me that they were denied that opportunity. Truthfully, that should disgust anyone who cares about justice.”
How would the experience of having to pretend to be a boy just to stay alive influence your life? Would you be like Zenobia and feel a strong aspiration to right these kinds of injustice? What will motivate you to act? From the Zenobia series by Russ Wallace you can learn how Zenobia saw something in her world that needed to be changed and she did whatever it took to correct this wrong. She was courageous enough to stand up against the injustices of the world. As we like to say here at Geode Press, “To Those Who Fight for Justice,” the Zenobia series is for you!
"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman
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