Why I Am Malala Yousafzai Essay

I am Justin Calvarese, and I go to school at Spring-Ford Area High School, which I am in 10 grade and fifteen years old. As your shooting five years ago demonstrated, some communities do not expect or allow girls to attend school. Before reading the memoir, I am Malala, I did not seem to pay any attention to how education should be taken away from one’s life. But it can be. I viewed the world together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features. We should all be the same. But as it turned out there is still war and very little peace between countries. In Pakistan, you have 5.4 million in population and around 62% of them are girls who don't go to school. I have read your book and it is amazing. Your book is about when the Taliban took control of the

Swat Valley in Pakistan, you spoke out.

Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, your miraculous recovery has taken you on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, you have become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. You once said, “We realize the importance of our voices when we are silenced” (Yousafzai). This impacted be in multiple ways, it showed me that even the smallest voice is one of the biggest. Also, it only takes one voice to change everybody. For example, when you spoke in front of the United Nations and you told them your story, they were touched and wanted to make a change. It's not so easy speaking out while living in Pakistan, because they shot you. If it were anyone else in that scenario, I doubt that anyone would stand up for women's education in Pakistan and throughout the world. In order to take something for good is to take

everything. But the second way that you have changed me is when you said, “The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our mind of thinking” (Yousafzai). In further detail, you are explaining how you can still operate even without pens and books. This impacted me by thinking ‘What if my life had no education and I got shot’, and the only thing I could learn with is my thoughts. In conclusion, without your brave acts of kindness and courage the world will no longer be the same with education because of wat you did.