Malala Yousafzai Rhetorical Analysis

Malala Yousafzai is seen as an example of the youth being determined with positive motives to achieve her goal. She was focused in spreading her ideas and thoughts on education to all, especially girls. Yousafzai’s actions and beliefs were shown to many like her, which convinced many to fight for their right to learn. Her struggle for educational equality has been known and heard around the world and in doing so, she has become an international symbol of peaceful protest. Yousafzai’s effort to convey her audience to listen to her message was superb because her proficient use of rhetorical devices such as pathos, ethos, imagery and diction lured her audience to see the meaning of her efforts to help educational problems in society.

Pathos was one of her strongest tools in her work to spread her message. She used her past and story to convince the audience to help towards change in education in her homeland and how it was perceived. All the emotions in her story empowered others to help to the cause and spread her ideas. Yousafzai was so determined with her goal she was willing to risk her own life towards the change to girls education in the world.Yousafzai emphasized her strong determination in her novel when proclaiming, ““If the Taliban had wanted to kill me,” I told him, “ they should have

done it in 2009. That was their time.”” (Yousafzai pg. 125). This showed how she was focused on her future and that nothing was going to be an obstacle for her. She then later to think about death that really made Malala think and showed the author that she began to worry. Her story of how she wasn’t accepted for going to a school for girls because it was thought as a taboo intrigued many other like her for the similarities that had the same outcome in their lives. She can really connect with people’s emotions which gave her an edge in her trying to convey her message.
Malala Yousafzai utilized ethos to have her audience convinced for her beliefs. She provided with a surplus of information that was credible for the people just to go with her decision. Yousafzai provided with legitimate proof about her life with sources provided to the public with for example, her novel, which illustrated real life occurrences such as, “My First diary entry appears on 3 January 2009, about two weeks before Fazlullah’s deadline” (Yousafzai pg.77). She has provided with dates, times, organizations, and companies that can all prove that help prove her story and ideas. This all provides support on Malala’s claims which can all be backed up with all the facts that she has over the years, such as events and statistics of the problem with girls’ education. Her ability to use all the facts known to help her ideas and to help spread the truth is a factor which helped convey her audience the action needed to be taken to a girl's natural right to learn.
Since she grew up as a top student in class she has been able to use those skills for presenting in the real world which she has utilized to help her on her path of convincing the people that she is able to influence the people around her to stand up, especially girls for their education.

Her use of diction in her speech is notably impressive because of the way she structures her sentences. The people are able to notice this in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize when she exclaimed, “ Thanking my father for not clipping my wings, and letting me fly” (Yousafzai 2014) The language used is very descriptive and gets a point across saying that she was meant to

“soar”.
Her use of imagery was very powerful in her speeches and novel for the audience and readers to be able to envision her ideas. Her use of diction really entwined with her use of of imagery. Her excellence in the description for a reader gives them a vivid image in one's mind. Yousafzai’s intentions for creating a clear image to the audience of girls’ rights and her story improved her ability to convey the audience. This is seen when Yousafzai vividly illustrated, "That morning we arrived at the narrow mud lane off Haji Baba Road in our usual procession of brightly painted rickshaws, sputtering diesel fumes, each one crammed with five or six girls. Since the time of the Taliban, our school has had no sign and the ornamented brass door in a whole wall across from the woodcutter's yard gives no hint of what lies beyond" (Yousafzai, pg. 9). This gave her audience a crystal clear image of her surroundings on that fateful day. If a reader can see your story, then the would be convinced by her story and they can feel her pain due to her use of diction and imagery together.
Yousafzai’s ability to attract her audience in improving education by her use of rhetorical devices displayed an impressive skill she has. Her use of diction and imagery together came into harmony, which gave the audience an interest in her. Her use of pathos and ethos may have been her key in trying to get the interest of her audience. This use of writing shows how she is perfect at grabbing the reader's or listener's attention and having them agree to her beliefs and ideas.