Malala Rhetorical Analysis

The adjectives that I would use to describe Malala is: ambitious, courageous, and frank. The reason why I’m using these adjectives to describe Malala is for the following reasons:

Ambitious: Malala has made a goal to help girls receive their education (In Pakistan, girls are NOT allowed to receive an education) and showing why it is important to be educated. She has promised to stick with that goal no matter what danger lies in front of her. She will not stop until the rights for girls to receive an education have been accomplished.

Courageous: Malala was aware of the Taliban coming after her for contradicting them. So on October 9, 2012, Malala had been shot in the head by a gunman while coming home from school. She manages to survive the bullet to the head. After that incident, she still makes her speeches in order to keep her movement moving forward into a deeper process. This shows that not even a bullet to the head will slow down Malala from making a difference not only in Pakistan but around the world.

Frank: Malala’s speeches and hard work show that what

she say, she meant it. She is not showing any fear or resistance, knowing what other people might say about it. Malala knows what she’s doing is right for woman everywhere who are scared to speak up.
If I was able to compare Malala’s childhood into mine, I would say that we were both in a problem when girls aren’t allowed to do certain sports, jobs, etc. (the only difference is that Malala is still in the process about this problem. Nevertheless, she is about getting an education). When I was a kid, I was always told that football, hockey, baseball, boxing, etc. are not the kind of sports for girls is for these reasons: it wouldn’t be interesting and/or the men have a lot of muscles so they would be able to handle those types of physical sports. I always told myself that “Woman should be able to play whatever sport they want to play once they trained and worked for it. It’s not fair that most sports are based on your gender. The woman is just as strong as the men”. The contrast of my childhood into Malala’s is that Malala wasn’t afraid to speak up about it. Accordingly, the way she grew up was way more difficult than mine. I live in the United States (where woman are not being treated so horribly by its rules and it’s somewhat peaceful) and she lives in Pakistan (where there’s constant war and destruction and woman are put under some harsh and unfair rules).
The women in Pakistan are being treated very horribly and disrespectfully. In the book, Malala says the following: Though she cannot read or write, my father shares everything with her, telling her about his day, the good and the bad. She teases him a lot and gives him advice about who she thinks is a genuine friend and who is not, and my father says she is always right. Most Pashtun men never do this, as sharing problems with women is seen as weak (page 17). In my opinion, that’s really disgraceful that if you are asking a women for help in a problem, you are symbolized as weak. I believe that women has a right to help men in any kind of situations if they want to.
The similarity of the treatment of women in Pakistan and in the United States is that I don’t believe that many citizens in the government society is paying any attention to the violence and abuse that is being shown to the girls and women.

After Malala was shot by the Taliban, Citizens has finally realized that the Taliban is very ruthless for shooting a girl who wants to voice her own opinion about the unfair rules that is put against girls. It takes a strong protest in order to get the governments attention. It is ridiculous how the government of Pakistan and the United States hasn’t made a speech, protest, etc. for woman rights. The only difference between the women treated in Pakistan and the United States is that the woman in the United States isn’t forced into marriage and pregnancy at a young age, girls and women can get educated, there is more death for women in Pakistan such as disobeying the

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