Review: A warm moving tale of heroism with a surprise ending
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2013
This moving short story is one of many collected in Girls to the Rescue. The stories show people who some consider inferior being far more superior than others. Among others, the stories show girls with spunk, "tough when the going gets tough." This tale is about Aisha, an African American. Her mother taught her the Swahili word Tulia, which means calm down, an attribute she needed when she alone was able to save a two year old boy in the second floor of a burning house, while the only other person around advised her to run to safety. The story describes how she was able to persuade the child to trust her, cling to her, as she took him and his toy to safety. The story has an understated but powerful surprise ending.