I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb is a powerful book of Malala's life story. This book begins with a beautiful account of her childhood, with fond memories of her home, the gorgeous Swat Valley, in which she lived, and her beloved school. This novel also gives readers insight into the Pashtun culture and daily life. Malala is named after Malalai, a powerful Pashtun woman who changed the face of war with her powerful poetry. Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, played a significant role in shaping Malala's personality. He went against his cultural tradition and celebrated the birth of his beloved daughter, Malala. Her father is a champion of girls’ education; he is a woman’s rights advocate. He embraces democracy with passion and believes that every child in this world should be educated, especially women. Malala was born in 1997, as her father was struggling to establish his school against a deeply corrupt government and a mufti (a Muslim scholar) who opposed the education of girls. Inspired by her father words, Malala absorbed her father’s ideals …show more content…
The cover of this autobiography is stunning and interesting. The lay-out of this non-fiction is put together nicely and they play a significant role in displaying this novel. The pictures in the book bring the whole piece to perfection; they give a visual to what the author is writing. They are appealing to the text and fascinating to look at. This book includes a table of contents, an introduction, a conclusion, a timeline of events in Pakistan and Swat, a glossary, and acknowledgments. This book is split into sections as Malala moves through her life story. There are captions for every illustration which explain what is happening. The author did achieve her goal for this book by allowing readers to discover who Malala truly is and what her biggest dream is (to have education available to every child in the
Crossing the Return Threshold: Being born again, “return is described as a coming back out of that yonder zone” (Campbell, 188). For Malala, this is a very crucial and important stage in her journey. Campbell writes the purpose of this stage is to convey to the community the wisdom gained from Apotheosis. For Malala, this stage gave her the determination to continue speaking out against the Taliban and the desire to silence all women and to take away their rights. Malala strongly believed in her rights, the right to speak up, to go to school and be heard. Malala gave her first speech in September 2008 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Much to the Taliban's surprise. A speech named "How dare the Taliban take my basic right to education”. Not only had she survived the assassination attempt but she made a full recovery and continued her crusade to speak up for many women that are under the Taliban regime. Malala like many in the journey took her fight for justice to the world. She at the age of 16 gives a speech at the United Nations. She also wrote her autobiography relating her journey so far. From a small town in Pakistan to gaining the attention of the world, no doubt Malala has been a hero to many. Her community has no doubt benefited from her strength and courage. One of Malala’s quotes serves as a one-sentence inspiration, “One child, one teacher, one
Throughout other parts of the world, there are diverse cultures and customs that is foreign to what one is used to. However, some are beginning to yearn for change toward their culture for the good of their future. Such as a young Pakistani girl named, Malala Yousafzai who lived in Swat Valley. She chose to step up against her traditions of many not getting education equality by doing the contrary and persuaded others to join her in the revolt by, writing a novel known as, I Am Malala. She influences her wide variety of audiences by her serious and thankful tone and diction, vivid imagery, and the use of the theme, Struggle for one’s rights.
Education is something various people feel extremely passionate about and would not want anything else, but a strong educational system around the world. Countless children around the world do not acquire the right to an education and various of those children are girls. Malala is one of those persons that enjoys education and her dream is to have an education for every girl that is being deprived of her rights. Malala has slowly turned herself into a symbol of peace and her novel is able to reflect that throughout her novel by applying various rhetorical devices. Malala Yousafzai the author of “I am Malala” is able to apply imagery, pathos, and analogy effectively to make an impact on her audience.
Stories were being told, except we weren’t sure if they were true. Rumours were spreading about how the Taliban treated people, but time went by and nothing changed. When the world started to fall silent, Malala Yousafzai, with all her courage and strength, spoke up. She has suffered for doing that, but she doesn’t regret it. Every word she says is expressed with concern. She knows that even her small voice, can and has, changed the world. Malala Yousafzai is a young activist from Swat Valley, Pakistan. In my opinion she is one of the most influential people living and that’s why I’m going to talk about her struggle, her accomplishments and what she wants and will try to change until the day she dies.
Joseph Campbell describes the hero’s journey as a quest where the “hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man” (Campbell 7). The heroine’s quest, according to Valerie Estelle Frankel includes “battling through pain and intolerance, through the thorns of adversity, through death and beyond to rescue loved ones” (Frankel 11). Contrary to the hero’s journey, the heroine’s journey focuses on the “culture on the idealization of the masculine” while the hero’s journey focuses on the adventures. In the inspiring autobiography, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai represents a heroine because she goes through the stages of the heroine’s journey as she refuses to be silenced and risks death to confront the Taliban on behalf of the young Pakistani girls that are deprived of education. The stages of the journey include the ordinary world, the call to adventure, the supernatural aid, the crossing of the first threshold, the road of trials, the ordeal, death and rebirth, and the return with the elixir.
Soon after, Malala was born and a favorite of her father’s. He taught her the value of education and how he had to struggle and claw his way to get a decent education. He preached that every person should have the right to go to school and be educated. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is a very influential person in the village and a great role model as Malala grew up. He participated in Anti-Taliban organizations and constantly preached for peace, educational rights and for th...
“Her primary cause – securing Pakistani girls’ access to education” Education was hard especially for females and Malala helped change that even if she would have to face consequences to which she did. “Malala has become perhaps the worlds most admired children’s-rights advocate, all the more powerful for being a child herself.” At only 14 years old, mala stood up for the females and even got shot, and then survived which helped make it the big cause that it was. Malala Yousafzai’s actions in Pakistan went worldwide to get the support and followers to be the leader she is still to this
Imagine a world with no education. It is hard not to imagine a society where no knowledge, no future, or no life. If the world had no education; how will we build our sources? How will life know what is right and what is wrong? How would society know about the stages of life from past, present, and future? Just think how empty the world would be without education. Malala Yousafzai, an activist of woman and children's right of education known for her courageous acts to improve education globally. Malala Yousafzai has positively benefitted modern society by speaking up for her rights of education and by inspiring others to join her to create equality for all.
By using raw emotion and memories from her past she advocates how essential getting a proper education is for children and women. In her biography,“ I am Malala”, she displays this when saying, “ Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow… it is neither Eastern or Western, it is human,”(Yousafzai, pg.163 ). When Yousafzai expresses this outlook to her readers she is trying to emphasize how education should be offered to everyone and is fighting for equality in foreign countries such as her home village is SWAT Valley. Readers can appeal to this since they are being introduced to a whole new way of living since most of her readers live in the modern day world where they are not able to relate to Malala’s old way of life. This is Yousafzai’s main goal when speaking out about about the education issues to influence change and encourage others to take the first step towards
The book I have selected is, I Am Malala, an autobiography written by Malala Yousafzai along with Christina Lamb. The book details Malala’s life under the Taliban’s mischiefs, and her views on advocating education for girls, a right taken away by the Taliban throughout Pakistan. As the Taliban begin bombing schools attended by girls, Malala presented speeches to stop the Taliban. Shot in the head by a gunman, Malala was unstable, however, she received an outpouring of support, giving her strength in changing Pakistan’s schooling for the better. I was astonished by Malala’s sacrifice though the media and I was in desire to pick up her book to read how she rose to achieving her dreams. The autobiography well showcases Malala’s
He can't help but remember when he “ tucked the gun into the waist of his denims”. Then he said “ a thing both lovely and terrible. “For you”, he said “ I’d kill with it for you, laila” page 176, Everytime Tariq thinks about this flashback he gets shivers going down his back as the hairs on his arm stands up, Tariq will do anything for his family and is an very happy man, he loves his family and his family loves him but he can't help worry about his family and what they been through in the past. Publishing this book can possibly help people with problems that may occur on a daily basis. This book will focus on rights, values and abuse.
Her father is an educational activist who sensed that there was something special about his daughter, later encouraging her to express herself and opinions freely and to have a voice of her own. Malala started to fight for education rights in her country in 2008 when she was just 11 and she addressed the local press club in Peshawar and talked about how the Taliban took away her simple right of education then she started a blog for the BBC Urdu where she talked about the Taliban which was a move that motivated the Taliban and on the 9th of October a Taliban gunman shot her in the head. The bullet went through her head and neck to the end of her shoulder. Malala eventually survived the shooting and not only did it motivate her to be a role model to other girls who are or were suffering of the oppression of the Taliban but she fought for what was right and the 9th of October was just the start of the journey of a great hero who will never be forgotten for standing up for her rights and most importantly other’s rights. The second person who I also consider a powerful woman and a hero for many. She is
I am Malala For the past month I have been reading the book I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai. It starts off with, meeting the girl who is just like any other girl. Malala is from Mingora, Pakistan the largest city in the valley.
In the novel I am Malala written by Malala Yousafzai shows that Malala has many challenges throughout life. However she works hard to overcome them and at the end of it all there is a positive change. One challenge Malala faces is that a student named Malka-e-Noor competes with her to see who does better in class. Malala sometimes falls behind Malka however she is determined and at the end she does better than her. Malala’s challenge was that during school one day a new girl had come to school. Her name was Malka-e-Noor. Malala did not think she could be as bright as her but however she was wrong. During the last day of school the teacher was passing out awards. When this happened Malala became stunned because “She had gotten first place and I had gotten second...I burst into tears.” (Yousafzai 35).
Thanks to Malala, she has fought for equal education for all women out there. “Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being,”said Malala Yousafzai. Malala is big on education which is one of the most important things in your lifetime. She is taking an action by making it to where everyone, either boy or girl, to have what is needed. Even though Malala Yousafzai got shot for speaking up against equal education for women, she still kept going and blocked off the negatives that happened in her life. Now, Malala is an inspiration to little kids all around the world. She’s won incredible awards for her actions she had spoken up up for. From the Nobel Peace Prize, to a Grammy Award. She has even gotten into University of Oxford, one of the best universities in the world! With that Malala will become a hero and a legend to inspire other kids like her to speak up and take action. You see, Malala is not just an ordinary person. She changed the world by her powerful words and speeches to which it’s motivating for other people the not only change the world, but to change