Malala Yousafzai: Book And Speech Analysis

“I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up” (Yousafzai, 2015). Malala Yousafzai, who was just 18 years old, was the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize. Even at such a young age Malala protested on how women deserve equal rights as men and how dearly her educational rights were to her. Throughout her movie, book and speech she talks about how she does have the right to an education and no one can take that from her. Although she suffered from a fatal gun wound, Malala has shown bravery and courage despite all of the threats. Throughout her movie, book and speech malala conveys her message on how she does have the right to an education and no one can take that from her by her usage of pathos, imagery, juxtaposition and diction.

In her book, Malala sets the stage by describing how she is just a normal person like any one of us.

She starts talking about the things she likes and the things she dislikes, how her family taught her right from wrong, how she still fights with her brothers and everything else that makes up a normal human being. but then she starts talking about how education is so important to her and help people in her country don't have the same educational rights that we do here. She tries showing us how sad and horrible life over there is how people get decapitated just because they don't listen to the Taliban just because they do things that they believe are right. She talks about how people would wait by the radio and will listen to it everyday to hear of their name would be said. She even goes as far as saying that at least half of her classmates would come in every morning with a new story of someone who had died. Not only is her choice of pathos give her argument a more stronger approach to the hearts of her audience but it helps paint a picture on how horrible life in Islam is and how strong Malala was for standing

up.
Additionally, Malala uses a lot of imagery to convey her message and help build her argument with real life experiences that she had to endorse. Malala states, “everyday after school my brother and I would race home and lock the doors no more playing Cricket in the alley no more hide and seek in the street” (Yousafzai, pg.57). You can clearly view that imagery is being used and these couple of sentences because anyone can imagine children coming home from school and just running to lock the door of their homes, not wanting to play outside because it's too dangerous.