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SONITA: THE AFGHAN TEEN RAPPING TO END CHILD MARRIAGE

Growing up in Afghanistan, marriage was part of Sonita Alizadeh’s life from an early age. Her parents first considered marrying her off when she was 10, a plan that fell through as her family fled to Iran to escape the Taliban.

When Sonita was 16, her mother told her that a man had offered $9000 for Sonita to become his bride. Wanting to continue her education, Sonita found an unlikely way out of her situation: through her love for music.

Many girls are not as fortunate. In Afghanistan, over 40% of girls are married before the age of 18, and cultural practices such as child betrothal and exchange marriages (families exchanging their daughters) contribute to its high prevalence.

Ever since her video went viral, Sonita has become a passionate advocate against child marriage. The documentary “Sonita”, which will be shown at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival later this month, tells her story.

TEENAGE YEARS

In 2012, documentary filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami began filming Sonita’s journey. Three years later, Sonita, the documentary was born.

In the film, Sonita shares her childhood story, growing up during the Taliban, her family separating and moving to Iran, and how she found an emotional outlet through music. Shetalks about child marriage, stressing the absurdity of selling girls for monetary gain, telling classmates and friends: “we don’t have price tags like sheep… I want to go back to my old school and the books to fi nd my own way.”
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BECOMING THE RAPPER TO END CHILD MARRIAGE

Though being a female singer in Iran is illegal, Sonita continued song-writing as she felt an issue as great as child marriage needed to be heard: “I believe in my work… for me, only rapping and music are important.”

Sonita struggled to gain recognition for many years, but her determination to fight against the norm was finally rewarded in 2014.

The release of her song, ‘Brides for Sale’, in which she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families, brought her to fame. […] Because of this exposure, Sonita is now studying on a scholarship in Utah, USA.

1 -profiles are often used to provide biographical information about a person. Based on Sonita’s profile, choose the features of this text genre.
Profiles …

(Note: more than one alternative is correct.)
(1 Point)

( )aim to give readers all the information about a person’s life.

( )aim to provide highlights of a person’s life.

( )can be organized into paragraphs.

( )have an introduction that shows readers why the person is important.

( )never highlight the person’s achievements to keep the readers’ attention.

( )use informal and objective language.

( )can present the historical and/or cultural context in which the person is living.

( )usually have direct quotes from the person.​

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Resposta:

( x ) can be organized into paragraphs.

( x ) use informal and objective language.

( x ) use informal and objective language.

( x ) can present the historical and/or cultural context in which the person is living.

( x )usually have direct quotes from the person.

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