I Am Malala Thesis

Malala Yousafzai, was once another ordinary girl struggling in her hometown Swat in Pakistan. Now she is a renowned author for her book I Am Malala, where she speaks about all the imbalances and injustices that occur in Pakistan. Her life was threatened by the Taliban when she fought for her cause: gaining the right for women's education in her country. The Taliban had banned education for women, yet Malala risked her life to accomplish her goal. Throughout her book she uses an inspirational tone, empowering diction, and vivid imagery to truly expose the Taliban for the corrupt educational system they have set for women in Pakistan.

She mainly wrote this book for the Western part of the world. She had done this so they can demand a change, since from where comes from they are unable to. The west is blind to the monstrosity that the Taliban has created. She speaks about the corruption and how she was able to survive it all. As said in her book, ¨As everyone around me cried, I kept my secret. I told myself, I will continue this journey of fighting for peace and democracy in my country. I was only ten, but I knew then that somehow I would find a way¨ (Yousafzai, 55). At such a young age she

knew that a revolution was in need. She speaks about her life story in order to inspire her audience to demand a change for women's rights to education.
Getting a message through millions of people is not an easy task.

Malala uses empowering diction to really give the reader the insight of her cause. Women in her country are illertarite and unable to express their struggles, so Malala speaks for them in her writing. In her novel I Am Malala she wrote, ¨Meanwhile, the bright lights in my room were excruciating, like hot white daggers to my eyes, especially my poor left eye, which wouldn't close¨ (Yousafzai, 139). This was when she was shot by the Taliban, when riding the bus school. Two of her other friends had been badly injured. Malala had the courage to write about this tragic event that happened to her comrades and herself. The pain she endured could be felt by the reader because of the strong diction she uses to describe

it.
The Western world may never be able to see Pakistan in person, so Malala uses vivid imagery to put the audience in the world that Pakistan is. Full of corruption, disaster in all parts, and unsafe society to live in. In the beginning of the book she writes about how beautiful her hometown is, ¨For the first quarter of the journey, the road was a series of zigs and zags that followed the Swat River on one side and hugged sheer cliffs on the other¨ (Yousafzai, 21). All this natural land filled with man-made destruction, these mountains would later be the place of a warzone. Later in her novel, she speaks about how Swat becomes life-threatening to call home, ¨There were three types of attacks, and we learned to distinguish them. Bombing was done only by the Taliban, sometimes by remote control, but other times by suicide bombers. Shelling from helicopters and cannons fired from the mountaintops was the army. The third type, machine guns used by both¨ (Yousafzai,59). Pakistan has been a war zone for many years, problems being government troubles and society mishaps. It would seem as the Taliban has greater problems to deal with than women wanting an education, but he makes it a priority that women succumb to men as if they were slaves to them.
For the insightful novel that Malala has written she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. When receiving this award she made a speech and she had said, ¨We would hide our books under our shawls and pretend to not be students¨ (Yousafzai, 2013). This was just one example of what women in her hometown would have to do in order to survive from the Taliban. The girls Malala was in school with had the same obstacles as her, and together they would prove the Taliban wrong by getting their education. They would burn their houses and schools, yet the women would not bow down and let them rip their right of an education away.
Malala Yousafzai has been a renown symbol for women's rights in education throughout the world. She has made several groups and donations made in order for women to have access to a school. Within her novel, I Am Malala, she exposes the Taliban of their mistreatment against women and their right to education. Malala uses an empowering tone to persuade readers to fight alongside her in this cause. She uses strong diction in order to get her message and cause throughout the millions reading. Vivid imagery is used to showcase how badly women are being treated in Pakistan, and that a revolution needs to be in place. Malala Yousafzai almost died for fighting the Taliban by trying to gain women their right to an education, and she does not intend to end her cause until she accomplishes her goal.