Change is inevitable, yet we fight it just the same. Change is going to happen, in fact, it happens every day, maybe it is too small to see, or perhaps we would rather not see it. Nikos Kazantzakis once said, “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality”. To me this symbolises the different perspectives people can have. This is shown in Craig Silvey’s, “Jasper Jones” novel which explores the concept of change and the understanding of how our search for who we are is clouded by our perceptions and attitudes. The basic human need to establish our own individual path in the world can arise conflict between adolescents and authorities who restrict them; In July 2014 the UN’s, ‘A world at school’ bought together …show more content…
The world breaks and spins and shakes. I’m screaming but they are muffled screams. I can’t breathe in. I feel like I’m underwater. Deaf and drowning”. Silvey’s use of hyperbole allows us to draw attention to what happens when adolescence’ bear the weight of society on their backs, igniting an emotional change. We see Charlie’s attitude towards the Vietnam War and his perception of the world when Charlie is informed of the death of Jeffrey Lu’s family members, “What kind of lousy world is this? Has it always been this way, or has the bottom fallen out of it in the past couple of days? Has it always been so unfair? What is it that tips the scales? I don’t understand it.” This reinforces Charlie’s determination for order which is represented in the use of rhetorical questions. This further demonstrates that our knowledge of the world can affect our attitudes and perspectives.
In conjunction with Charlie, Malala Yousafzai discovers that the world is truly not a wish granting factory, when her home town of Mingora in Pakistan fell under Taliban rule; her brave acts of courage made her a power symbol for women and children everywhere. Change is essential to our evolution. It allowed for Malala to see that the world needed change in order for it to move forward, because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education. Malala Yousafzai’s
It is apparent that Charlie Bucktin, the protagonist of Jasper Jones, battles with the most profound internal conflict, where he has to choose between his safety or Jasper’s. This conflict is evident when Silvey utilises multiple metaphors and other figurative language. Charlie proclaims that “Laura stole my slumber” this
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for education, especially for females, and equal rights to education in the middle east. She revolutionized education equality for children. She has received many peace awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. The Taliban outlawed education in Pakistan, where she lived, for all females in 2009. She continued to attend classes and speak out on her BBC blog, the radio, and was even in a documentary about her life in the middle east and going to school as a girl despite the new law. In early October of 2012, when Malala was 15, she became the victim of an attempted murder by a Taliban gunman. She was shot in the head on the bus ride home from school. She was rushed to the hospital and after being stabilized, she was moved to another hospital to remove the bullet. After her tragic personal experience, she became well known and used her newfound popularity to advocate for education in the middle east. This speech is just one example of the many speeches she gave to bring attention to the problem. She also asked many other influential people with a higher status to help her bring awareness to the cause. To understand Malala’s speech the reader needs to understand what her goal is, what rhetorical devices she uses to reach that goal and how effective the speech is. She is quite effective in getting her goal across to the audience through her speeches by using her public speaking skills to get her audience to agree with what she has to say.
Throughout this well-written, emotional and inspiring novel about Malala Yousafzai we have not only seen who she is as a person, but we have seen the challenges in her life and we have come to learn her story due to the rhetorical strategies she has included all throughout the book. Malala has shown us the use of pathos, logos and diatyposis. Malala has always been a different person in her family ever since she was little and that has helped her become the women she is today, the woman who stood up to the Taliban and survived a head shot bullet, but most of all she is a girl who stood up for children's right at a young age by simply going to school. Malala’s story isn't about herself, it's about her country and what the Taliban are doing
Stories were being told, except we weren’t sure if they were true. Rumours were spreading about how the Taliban treated people, but time went by and nothing changed. When the world started to fall silent, Malala Yousafzai, with all her courage and strength, spoke up. She has suffered for doing that, but she doesn’t regret it. Every word she says is expressed with concern. She knows that even her small voice, can and has, changed the world. Malala Yousafzai is a young activist from Swat Valley, Pakistan. In my opinion she is one of the most influential people living and that’s why I’m going to talk about her struggle, her accomplishments and what she wants and will try to change until the day she dies.
At the tender age of 19 Malala Yousafzai is celebrated as a powerful education and women’s rights activist from Pakistan’s Swat valley. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”(Harris)In 2009, Yousafzai began blogging for BBC News under the pseudonym Gul Makai, to describe her day-to-day routine in a town threatened by constant militant activity. With a growing public platform, Yousafzai continued to speak out about her right, and the right of all women, to an education. Now Malala has billions who support her and her actions against the taliban's wishes for women education to
Have you ever wondered the cost for standing up for your rights in Pakistan?Malala Yousafzai,at the time,was a girls education activist and was shot in the head in October 2012.The book “I am Malala”, written by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick shows the genre of autobiography. The book “I am Malala” deserved a spot on this year’s summer reading list because it shows how education is very important for the future and it also shows how you should stand up for your right,finally it shows that everyone could make a difference. The first reason why “I am Malala” should be on the summer reading list is because it shows how sacred education is around the world. Malala illustrates the problems that people have to face to get a basic education in her country.
On July 12, 2013, 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, delivered her first public speech, to the United Nations Youth Takeover, where she persuasively articulated her aspiration to reach out to young, adolescent advocates the deficient nature of education, specifically in regards to women and young children. During Yousafzai’s advocacy for children’s right to education, her spoken ambition was to reach a global audience in hopes of bringing awareness to a troublesome issue. Likewise, throughout the speech, Yousafzai effectively expressed her gratitude to the people who have made an influence in her life, including the champions of the world Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah as well as the countless teachers she had who motivated her to persist in further educating herself. Nevertheless, she also commendably reveals through her Nobel Peace Prize Speech that the award is not only for herself, but, consequently, for those “disregarded” children who continually yearn for education on a daily basis. This successfully demonstrates that she is not above those children, but, instead, stands with them. In several illustrations, she conveys the notion that she is not going to stand idly by and witness young girls being denied their rightful education. Accordingly, Yousafzai deliberates, it is moral and upright to fight for what one believes in.
Malala’s extreme bravery that is evident even long after her tragic shooting in October 2012 captivates supporters and shows people that no matter what happens, dreams should never be abandoned. Malala tells the story of the shooting in her inspiring “Speech at the United Nations.” “They thought that the bullets would silence us… but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage were born” (Malala). For Yousafzai the experiences she had with those trying to suppress her only renewed her longing for education and
Malala Yousafzai's memoir I am Malala and Nigel Cole's film Made in Dagenham present empowered female advocates who gain confidence in themselves to ensure that success is made in their mission to defeat the injustices they are challenged with. Both Malala and Rita stood their ground no matter the circumstance, whether they were in a democratic society or dictatorship. They had the courage to try and surpass all obstacles in their way, but knew it could become a potential risk to their lives. Malala is marginalised and must rely on people like Rita to ensure that change can be created.
Young women from all around the world live in poverty with no hope. Many people don’t even consider this. These young women are now getting an amazing opportunity because of a young teenage girl with a dream. Malala Yousafzai born in Mingora Pakistan, achieved so much in her few years of fighting for women's rights. In America, women's rights are NOT a big issue but in other countries less fortunate, that is not the case. She has not only made a difference in the lives of young women but also she has raised awareness across the globe. Through all her tireless efforts she never gave up her dream of giving girls an education. Hope has been given to young women everywhere thanks to Malala. Miracles have been made even in the smallest of
Malala Yousafzai is a young woman speaking as a young education advocate at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations. This was her first speech since she had been shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan on October 9th, 2012. The Taliban targeted her because she was blogging about her own right, and the right of all women, to an education. Her purpose is to inform the people of the denial of education to children around the world. She is also trying to persuade her audiences to join her campaign in ensuring all children gain their right to education before the end of 2015. Her primary audience was all of the delegates who attended the Youth Takeover of the United Nations, and all the people fighting for education. Her
I am Malala: The Girl Who Got Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai provides the reader with many intriguing themes and stupendous quotes. One specific theme in this autobiography is the impact one child can have on the world. For centuries, children have been taught to be seen and not heard. Children have been expected to stay in the shadows and inconspicuous especially in times of tyranny. In order to even attempt to change the world, children were often forced by their parents to wait until adulthood. Unfortunately, in scenarios where the child is forced to wait the child’s desire for change often tends to dwindle when they are forced to wait. This is similar to how a flame dies when it is suppressed by a lid.
Malala Yousafzai was a talented and brave young woman who had one goal in life: to get an education and encourage others to do the same. Born in Pakistan, Malala did not grow up with many resources, but she was lucky enough to have a father that shared the same goal as her. At the young age of fifteen, she was shot in the face by the Taliban for standing up for girls’ rights to an education. Although the recovery time was long and hard, the Taliban did not silence her as she continued her campaign. This eventually led her to opening her own school in Yemen and writing the novel I Am Malala. As someone who highly values education and bravery, her story made me interested in learning more about her culture, family, and experiences.
Suffering from poverty, struggling for an education, and fighting for women’s rights, Yousafzai battles for girls’ education. In Malala Yousafzai’s biography, I Am Malala, she tells her story about life under the Taliban’s rule. She wishes to shed light on Pakistan’s inequality issue and the damage the Taliban has done to her home. Throughout the book, Yousafzai persuasively incorporates facts and research, which efficaciously extends her credibility, but her lack of emotion and sentiment causes the audience to lose their sense of sympathy.
Malala Yousafzai’s is a women’s activist for youth education, but primarily for girls. On July 12th, 2013, she delivered an address at the Youth Takeover of the United Nation. This speech is powerful, eye opening and deserves to be heard. She is addressing two audiences, one being the people that follow her same belief for education, some of those people would be at this convention and the other being the people that disagree with her purpose, like the Taliban. Yousafzai was in 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, which used to be a popular tourist destination. As of now the region has been taken into control of the Taliban. Her father is also an anti- Taliban activist and educator. She, her father and tons of others just want thing to be like they used to. Where they had a safe neighborhood and didn't have to worry about violence. She delivered a speech riddled with excellent use of rhetoric to convey her argument. Malala’s whole purpose for her fight for education of the youth is so that it will stop future violence, She displays this purpose in her speech by using outward focus, compassion and personal experience to her audiences.