Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl who was shot by the Taliban, the youngest person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, a girl brave enough to speak up against the Taliban, a girl who wanted a change for women’s equality and education, and a young girl who was once an average teenage girl. Malala has had many influences in life but the two most important ones are Ziauddin Yousafzai, her father, and the Taliban in Swat Valley. Her father has shown her such great love since birth and has allowed her to have a voice. At the same time, the Taliban has inspired her to speak out and strive for change. These two influences have motivated Malala as she has become an activist and a voice for change. Since the minute Malala was born, her father has shown …show more content…
Unlike other marriages, Malala's parents are married out of love. In the documentary “He Named Me Malala” her father mentioned that he is without beauty and she is without education, and her mother is beautiful and he owns a school. He is trying to point out how they are each other’s equal and how they complement each other. Their marriage was not forced or arranged, which is very different from many other marriages in Swat Valley. In her book, Malala notes “I see my parents happy and laughing a lot. People would see and say we are a sweet family” (Yousafzai 22). Malala’s family differs from other families specifically for this reason. She has grown up and seen what real love looks like unlike many other children of her culture and seen her parents treat each other as equals. In Swat Valley where Malala lived, there was a Taliban that would manipulate the people of Swat. Their leader Mullah Fazullah would talk to the people over the radio and it was named “Radio Mullah” where he would speak to everyone about the Quran, the holy book of Islam. He would also make women feel special by speaking specifically to them, and would publicly shame the people who didn’t listen to him. At first, the people of Swat loved him, but he would soon brainwash them as he would manipulate the Quran and use it to his advantage. Malala expresses her feelings towards Fazullah very often in her book. She states
Malala Yousafzai has made many claims for what she believes in. Those without a voice need to be heard. The taliban cannot quiet her. Nonviolence is one of the World’s greatest traditions. Education is one of the most important human rights. Yousafzai is able to support these claims with the way she speaks. She is splendid at using rhetoric, persuasive language with techniques like figures of speech. Malala Yousafzai uses repetition, pathos, and ethos to support her claims.
The intended audience for the book I Am Malala was mainly meant for people who want to know more about the life and politics in Swat, Pakistan. From a young age Malala Yousafzai was told she would be a great politician,“Even as a toddler you talked like a politician” her father would tease her (142). Yousafzai talks a lot about how her life changed in Swat when the Taliban took over, and she explains “When I was in the street it felt as though every man I passed might be a Talib” ( Yousafzai 135). She says that the Taliban would blow up girls schools, because they felt that it was “haram and un-islamic” (Yousafzai 94). For a long period of the time the Taliban ruled over Swat and places all over Pakistan,
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.
First, Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani civil rights activist fighting for equal education in her country. Both Malala and her father, who ran a school close to their house, were threatened by the Taliban to stop allowing girls to go to the school and stop speaking outright about equal rights. However, Malala was already an advocate for girls education, writing on a BBC blog under a pseudonym, and neither her nor her father would back down. As a result, the Taliban attacked Malala’s bus one day as she was going to school, singling her out, the terrorists shot her three times and injured some of her friends. Although she
Bibliography Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. N. p. : n.p., n.d. print.
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. It is the very same “legacy of change” that Nelson Mandela used that inspires what Malala Yousafzai does today. At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education. Since this appalling incident, Malala has gone on to be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, start the “Malala Fund”, that funds education in developing countries, and is currently the figure of women’s rights. Malala has been constantly speaking, advocating and helping women and children acquire the rights they deserve. In her powerful speech to the U.N, she opened the world’s eyes to the truth about education
Being shot in the face and seriously injured, did not stop Malala Yousafzai from pursuing her dreams. She did not morally agree with her government’s treatment of women, so she fought for her beliefs. Malala grew up in a rural village in Pakistan and was forced to follow customs she did not believe in. Swat Valley changed to a strictly ruled village with discrimination towards women. Malala created awareness around the world of the situation and stood up for her rights to education. Through Malala Yousafzai’s painful experience with growing up in a dangerous part of Pakistan, she created awareness in hope to regain the rights to educational opportunities for women.
The Taliban had began targeting girls' schools in Swat valley because they believed that female education went against their extremist Islamic beliefs. When the Taliban had prevented her and several other girls from attending school, Malala publicly spoke up against the Taliban's outrageous actions. In 2008, Malala spoke to an audience at a local press club in Peshawar about the Taliban taking away her, as well as several other females, basic right to an education by destroying educational and government institutions. Her speech entitled, “How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to an Education,” displays the passion and outrage that Malala feels about the events occurring in her hometown. While Malala's speech was well received and made her publicly known among her village, it was her blog that made her rise to world wide fame. After hearing the announcement by Mullah Fazlullah that girls' schools were to be closed by January 15th, Ziauddin Yousafzai was asked by a BBC reporter if he could search for a girl who was willing to write about life under Taliban rule (Profile: Malala Yousafzai, 1). One girl had volunteered but was later dissuaded by her parents who feared the risks and danger of going against the Taliban (Alter, 1). Malala's father encouraged Malala, who willingly accepted the challenge. In order to avoid discovery, Malala wrote under the pseudonym of
“I dream of a country where education would prevail” (Malala Yousafzai). Education around the world has begun to be overlooked more and more each year; women’s education especially. Fighting to learn is one of the many problems women face each day, additionally it does not help when the opportunity to be educated is not given to over 6 million teenage girls alone. The women that are confident enough to stand up and fight for schooling are usually respected. Being one of the very few people in Pakistan who fought for better teachings, Malala is now well respected in many countries. Malala Yousafzai (Yoo-saff-zay) was shot by the Taliban in 2012; after a long recovery, she miraculously advocates for education around the world.
She likewise declined to stop her blog about her life under the Taliban that she set up for BBC news. Her story is a striking exhibition of bravery and shows exactly what amount can be accomplished through conviction in what is right. When you read her book “I Am Malala “she pronounces that “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” Malala’s story manifests that anything is conceivable. Notwithstanding significant challenges, she has figured out how to set up herself as a vital constrain in driving forward female education over the world. She accentuation on the keys to taking care of the issues both inside Pakistan and on a worldwide scale, as opposed to waiting on her experience with the Taliban, showing genuine bravery and grit close by an enthusiasm for fairness that motivates on her developments. Malala Yousafzai is presently a representation for positive change in a reality as we know it where change is not generally saluted. In spite of the Taliban’s dangers, Malala Yousafzai remains a stalwart backer for the force of education. She won numerous honors for her grit and heroism. On October 10, 2013 in affirmation of her work, the European Parliament granted her the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, that year she additionally composed
In I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai chronicles her childhood as a girl growing up in Swat, Pakistan. When she was sixteen, Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban, a militant Islamic group that opposes gender equality, for her opinions on education. Malala, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, survived the attack and went on to become an icon for global peace and educational reform. Through rhetorical choices, Yousafzai proposes a solution for ending the violence in her homeland. In this present-day autobiography, Malala Yousafzai argues that all Pakistani women should have access to the basic human right of education regardless of oppressive political and social structures.
Education is perceived as being the key to obliterating gender equality, ceasing world hunger, and deteriorating global violence. Because of the authority that education possesses, some people feel the need to silence the voices of those who value it because it creates independent minds that question those of authority. More specifically, many Middle Eastern countries, such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India, have banned the rights of women to pursue an education due to cultural preferences. Instead of becoming more knowledgeable, women of the Islamic culture are powerless and are expected to tend to both their wifely and motherly duties within the household. The women of the Islamic culture were initially very content with this ideology
“I am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai is a beautiful and hard breaking book at the same time. This book is an autobiography that describes the author childhood and her support on the right for girls to have an education. Through this autobiography, Malala describes the restrictions that are imposed on females in her country. There are many that believe that woman of Pakistan should not be educated in the other hands there are a few that oppose this idea. Malala’s support on education for girls almost cost her life, since she was shot by the Taliban. From a multicultural perspective Malala’s story touches on topics such; culture shock, discrimination within your own culture, oppression, religion, family and woman’s right. Despite the opposition
Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at the United Nations. The terrorist attack made her a strong person, although she is young. She did not give a speech for revenge, however, she finds that talking about the importance of receiving education for all people at the time of the shooting. Further, Malala has a pure heart, so she can’t hate the Taliban. She has learned to be peaceful to all people from Muhammad, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha.
Imagine being at school like any other day when suddenly a gunshot is heard and a body falls to the ground. That was a sight seen by some of Malala Yousafzai’s classmates around the school one day. Young Malala at the age of 14 was demanding to the Taliban to go to school after the Taliban forced the closure of her school. When she did this she became an icon for 32 million girls worldwide (Blackwell). All people should respect Malala Yousafzai because she over came an assassination attempt and she tells people about it while she still embraces education worldwide.