Malala Yousafzai, the fifteen-year-old girl shot in the face for speaking out. Her story begins just like any other girl in her hometown, Swat Valley, Pakistan; an area where women struggle to keep their basic rights. One of those rights being the right to education, which then grew to be the main influence in Malala’s advocacy and eventual worldwide campaign for women’s schooling. This happened to be heavily against the edicts of the political group, the Taliban, an extremist Islamic party in Pakistan responsible for a civil war and banning women from going to school, who used Malala’s movement as a rationale to shoot her on the evening of October 9th, 2012. Malala’s courage and determination through all of this is what made her stand out …show more content…
Scores of examples and occurrences lead thousands to believe in Malala’s outstanding fearlessness and noble spirit, especially after reading her autobiography, I Am Malala. Her exceptional worldly and charitable mindset at her youthful age has definitely distinguished Malala’s distinct qualities from her fellow classmates. Likewise, Malala also possesses an impressive determination to follow through with her strong beliefs, allowing her to get over strenuous barriers such as the risk of losing her life. Most certainly, Malala offers children and adults around the world great reasons to view her as a hero, for one of the most valued lessons she teaches us is to stand up for what we believe in. To this day, her story circulates around the world to serve as a grand example of remarkable bravery and true heroism. Malala Yousafzai, previously known as the fifteen-year-old girl shot in the face, is now known as the fifteen-year-old girl who changed the
Strength, power and courage was born.” Malala continued to lead activist groups and conferences after being shot. She demonstrates persistence by continuing to speak out about the importance of access to education for women. In her grew courage, bravery and
Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl, was shot and wounded by the Taliban. At eleven years old, Malala, and all other Pakistani women were told they could no longer receive any sort of education. Malala would not remain quiet, she wanted to be taught, and she made sure everyone knew the cruelty of the situation. On October 8, as Malala and many other children were riding a bus home, the bus was stopped by a masked Taliban gunman who shot Malala in the head and neck. Malala survived the shot and even wrote a book later on. This situation is much like what some of the characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, and Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, go through. Lee and Skloot demonstrate that restriction from society and others leads to injustice.
A Taliban leader said that if girls did not stop going to school within a month, there would be repercussions. Instead of capitulating, this proclamation only made Yousafzai more passionate and courageous. She continued to attend school, despite the numerous threats and causes for fear. As an education activist, she was in more danger than most of her classmates, so it was not safe for her to walk anywhere, instead she had to take a car or bus. One day, while aboard a school bus with her classmates and friends, two men entered asking which girl was named Malala. The other girls looked at Yousafzai which unintentionally gave away her location. The men shot 15 year old Yousafzai in a defining moment in history. This not only had consequences for her and her family, but it also had consequences for the citizens of Pakistan and people living around the world. This was a turning point because people began to realize that the Taliban would target anyone with opposing views, even teenage girls.
In protest to this, Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl, refused to follow these rules, and even began a blog for the British Broadcasting Corporation, detailing her life under Taliban rule. In response to her protest, a gunman approached her, and shot her three times. This assassination attempt started a global movement in support of Yousafzai and her beliefs. Like Thoreau, Gandhi, King, and Yousafzai, one must realize when others are being oppressed and take action against those in power who oppress the people they rule. Otherwise, there will never be change, and the world will never see justice.
First, Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani civil rights activist fighting for equal education in her country. Both Malala and her father, who ran a school close to their house, were threatened by the Taliban to stop allowing girls to go to the school and stop speaking outright about equal rights. However, Malala was already an advocate for girls education, writing on a BBC blog under a pseudonym, and neither her nor her father would back down. As a result, the Taliban attacked Malala’s bus one day as she was going to school, singling her out, the terrorists shot her three times and injured some of her friends. Although she
In the fall of 2012, a young Pakistani female was shot in the head by the Taliban while riding the bus home from school, but being shot was only one of the trails Malala Yousafzai was to overcome. Malala’s injuries were too great to be dealt with in hospitals in Pakistan; thus, she was transferred to England to undergo surgery. While in England Malala’s story became so popular that the United Nations heard of how she was shot and as a result, she had become an advocate for education; therefore, on July of 2013, at the age of sixteen, Malala, was invited to speak about her experience at the United Nation’s headquarters in New York. Her speech was intended to inform people of an epidemic that has invaded not only the Middle East but also
Bibliography Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. N. p. : n.p., n.d. print.
Women in America do not have to worry about a terrorist group coming and taking their rights away. They have a government that protects them from these groups and makes sure they have the same rights as others. In the Middle East, especially Afghanistan and Pakistan, women are scared to speak too loudly. These women live in fear each day of their lives because if they make one small mistake it could mean their life. Yet, there are some people who are fighting for women’s rights, especially women’s education. Malala Yousafzai is a girl who fought for women’s education. At the age of eleven, Malala began writing a blog for BBC Urdu. The blog described how she was upset that women’s education under the Taliban would be forced to stop. Malala also appeared on national television talking about women’s education. She has become a symbol of resistance against the Taliban. Even after Malala was put on the Taliban’s hit list, she continues to speak out about what she felt needed to be said. Malala would give her life for this cause, and she almost did. On October 9, 2012, Malala was on her way home from her morning classes when a man walked on to her bus and asked, “Who is Malala”. When she said it was her he shot her. The bullets hit her head and her leg. The Taliban ordered for her to be shot because she was promoting western culture in Pashtun areas. In another case Mukhtar Mai stood up for women’s rights and was sexually assaulted by multiple men with orders from the tribal council. The tradition in Mukhtar’s tribe was that a woman who is sexually assaulted by multiple men should kill herself, but instead of committing suicide she fought for her cause (Samira 28-30). Although the Taliban restricts women’s education for religious reaso...
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. It is the very same “legacy of change” that Nelson Mandela used that inspires what Malala Yousafzai does today. At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education. Since this appalling incident, Malala has gone on to be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, start the “Malala Fund”, that funds education in developing countries, and is currently the figure of women’s rights. Malala has been constantly speaking, advocating and helping women and children acquire the rights they deserve. In her powerful speech to the U.N, she opened the world’s eyes to the truth about education
The article “Malala the Powerful” by Kristin Lewis, defined a girl named Malala a Pakistani girl who stood up for her right to let girls go to school during the war. Malala was standing up for her right when she was shot in the head during the Pakistani war. She and her dad were very courageous in their actions.With Malala doing so the word was spread of the Taliban. Notes were passed under her door saying and warning her of death. October 9, 2012 was when the Taliban shot her and 2 of her friends on a bus, luckily Malala and her 2 friends survived. Throughout the time Malala took very courageous acts as well as facing some very hard and scary challenges. Malala is one out of trillions who would stand up to such a powerful force, the Taliban, without her some girls wouldn’t be able to go to school this very year.
“I am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai is a beautiful and hard breaking book at the same time. This book is an autobiography that describes the author childhood and her support on the right for girls to have an education. Through this autobiography, Malala describes the restrictions that are imposed on females in her country. There are many that believe that woman of Pakistan should not be educated in the other hands there are a few that oppose this idea. Malala’s support on education for girls almost cost her life, since she was shot by the Taliban. From a multicultural perspective Malala’s story touches on topics such; culture shock, discrimination within your own culture, oppression, religion, family and woman’s right. Despite the opposition
Many people have heroes that they look up to. From celebrity popstars to one’s own parents, there are many people in our lives that we idolize and adore. Even though all heroes are different in their own way, they all share some of the same characteristics such as being kind, generous, giving, and more. Malala represents the core concepts of being a hero in her journey for girls’ education in her homeland of Swat. In her book, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, she willingly puts her life in danger everyday so girls all over Pakistan could have education. She recognizes the oppression by the Taliban and the sexism of her culture and knew that “if people were silent nothing would change.” (pg. 140) Through the help of a supportive family, she began her campaign for girls’ education. Even as her homeland of Pakistan grew into a dictatorship with the Taliban in control, she refused to back down. Instead, she continued her fight for education, expanding her campaign to include girls all over the world. Her deep rooted passion and love for her homeland and its people have driven her to be the kind, generous, and loving person she is today.
Malala is globally acclaimed for her courageous efforts in promoting children and women’s education under such extreme conditions. Recently, she was nominated for the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony held on World Children’s Day this year. She was the first Pakistani woman to b...
On July 12th, 1997 a baby girl was born to Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai, in Mingora Pakistan. Her parents would then name her Malala, which has the meaning “Grief-Stricken”. This meaning could not apply more to her character today, as she has been a strong advocate for how sad the condition of women’s education is since she was very young. In the year 2012, Malala Yousafzai would become known worldwide as a hero for her stance on women’s education. When you review Malala’s life (so far) it can be noticed that it meets all of the requirements for her to have the title of an everyday hero.