I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up For Education

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The book, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, is written by Malala Yousafzai and co-written by Christina Lamb. This moving memoir was originally published by Little, Brown and Company in New York on October 8th, 2013. This memoir showcases different parts of the world that refuse for females to gain an education. Malala mainly draws attention towards the educational issue in her own country of Pakistan and the valley of Swat during modern day, but occasionally refers to its history. The geographical issue of countries denying girls of an education is derived from the country’s cultural, social, and religious beliefs; these beliefs will dictate if they allow girls to go to school. This memoir argues …show more content…

The memoir itself consists of multiple compelling moments; to begin with one highlight, Malala discusses her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, having to seek others’ help in order to go to college to have the education to start a school for girls. After attending college, Ziauddin eventually is able to begin a school, called, “Kushal School”, but it isn’t until Malala’s birth that the school starts to grow (Yousafzai and Lamb 41-55). This passage shows importance towards this memoir because Ziauddin shares the same qualities as Malala in that they both are persistent when their dreams of receiving an education are met with difficulties. Also, with Ziauddin starting up his own female school, he gives Malala the mindset of wanting to be involved with schooling from an early age, despite their culture’s belief that girls do not need an …show more content…

He earns the trust of the people of Swat when his radio station originates and gradually starts to preach extreme ideas. Fazlullah spreads ideas such as girls who do not attend school will enter into Heaven, and due to his popularity, people practice what Fazlullah preaches (Yousafzai and Lamb 114-120). This passage is important to Malala’s story because it shows that Fazlullah deceives the people of Swat by taking advantage of people’s trust in him to promote the Taliban’s ideologies. This reflects Malala’s main point of her memoir by demonstrating that many people receive news over the radio due to their illiteracy, which leads to people being misinformed about the news, therefore taken advantage

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