Imagery In I Am Malala

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The novel I am Malala tells the story of a pakistani girl named Malala Yousafzai, where she illustrates her story of her life and her movements towards women’s rights and girls education. Being the youngest candidate for the nobel prize, Malala inspires a multitude of girls, women, and social activist all around. She fights to create a generation who thrives in education and who lives truly how they should live in. Therefore, Malala wields surreal imagery to illustrate her events, utilizes drastic pathos to compel the readers into action, and excessive juxtaposition to contrast the American society to hers.
Malala utilizes surreal imagery to illustrate the readers of her past experiences to create her point of view during those situations. As told in the passage malala illustrates her country in the swat valley as beautiful and memorable as stated. “...known for it beauty, and tourist came from all over to see its tall mountains, lush green hills, …show more content…

With malala’s country being against “free rights”(for women mostly), and our country being freedom of rights, and the bill of rights, we can be told by malala of what some individuals in her country think of Americans. “...he said it was a ploy by Western countries to harm Muslim children” (Yousafzai, pg.44). With the mentioning of the radio broadcast from this, “Radio Fazlullah”, he conveys the Taliban’s true ideals of Americans and our intentions. With that in malala’s documentary by … tells the life of malala in video and gets live action of herself and her life. In the quote,”...” malala tells the life and of her running to england in order to survive from the taliban and find a better educations. With her comparing western cultures and her culture the reader can be described her difference in her culture and her religion. Therefore contrasting our two societies and comparing the differences of the

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