Essay On I Am Malala

It began as an ordinary day in Mingora, Pakistan, for a young girl returning home from school on her school bus. Suddenly, a masked gunman rushed into the bus and shouted, “Who is Malala?” Her friends on the bus looked back at her, and in the blink of an eye she was shot on the left side of her face. This incident was the spark that ignited a call for change in education around the world. Malala Yousafzai was the face of this change. She made significant contributions to female education rights by being an education activist and urging children to speak out and fight for their rights. She forever changed the lives of Pakistani girls who today benefit from free education and resources with numerous schools around their country.

Malala Youafzai is now a inspiring activist for women's education. Malala has a strong passion for education and loved school as a child. She lived in terriable circumstances in which a radical terrorist group, the Taliban, was terrorizing her city. Enforcing cruel strict Islamic law Malala bravly spoke out against the Taliban. Through many courages and tragic events Malala was globaly noticed, bringing attention to the issues of childrens and womens education and influencing millions of people.

In order to learn about how Malala Yousafzai changed the world by standing up for what she believes in, you need to know more about her background. On July 12, 1997 Malala was born in Mingora, Pakistan. The name “Malala” means grief spoken. Her father named her after a girl who spoke out and was killed (Newsmakers, 2013). Malala was born into the family of two loving parents, Ziauddin, her father, and Tor Pekai, her mother. Later two brothers joined the family, Khushal who is 15, and Atal who is 10 (Doak 25). Malala’s father is a poet, social activist, and educator. Malala’s mother is a homemaker. When Malala was 10, war came to Mingora. A group called Taliban took over the swat valley. The Taliban began destroying only girls schools. Mingora was now a war zone. By the age of 11 Malala was fluent in English and had already formed her own opinion on equal education for girls. Malala attended Khushal, which her father founded. She was once awarded first place for

I am Malala is a heroic story about a young woman who stood up for what she wanted. This auto-biography is based on a teenager named Malala Yousafzi who stood up for girls education in her home country Pakistan. She also went against the Taliban because she didn't think it was right of what they were doing to her innocent village. When Malala was born very few people came to congratulate her parents because the birth of a girl is seen as a failure of the parents in her culture. She was born and raised in Sway Valley, Northeastern Pakistan. Swat Valley has beautiful scenery which attracts a lot of tourism until the Taliban took over the valley. Malala’s parents Ziauddin and Toor Pekai were very kind humble people from the mountain villages. Malala’s father was a very well educated man who grew up studying poetry and literature. He also started the Khushal School a three years before Malala was born. ”My father started the school three years before I was born, and he was a teacher, accountant, and principal—as well as a janitor, handyman, and chief mechanic.” (Chapter 1, Page 20) In Malala’s culture, girls are refused an education or even simply knowing how to read and write. Her father helped girls by starting the school and making a big influence on girls. Malala is truly a hero throughout this paper you will see how she changed everything.

The autobiography I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai begins with the scene of young pakistani education and women’s rights activist Malala being shot in the head. Her school bus had been stopped by the Taliban who, after asking which of the girls was Malala, put a bullet into her head. Malala ends the powerful prologue with the words “Who is Malala? I am Malala and this is my story” (9). Malala then rewinds to the story of her birth and how in Pakistan, no one congratulated her parents when she was born because she was a girl. Pakistani culture pushes for the birth of a boy as an islamic majority country. However, her father saw the potential in his daughter as a great leaser and named her after one of the great female leaders in Pakistan-

Malala was a special girl. She lived in Mingora, Pakistan, where it eventually was controlled by Taliban. She attended a school that her father founded which was taken away by the laws against education for girls that the Taliban was creating to destroy. In the year of 2009, she became a blogger for BBC to talk about the horror of the control that the Taliban were achieving. But on the same year, she was threatened was eventually shot in the head by a Taliban. It was an ordinary day and “Malala was sitting in her school bus when a man climbed on board and demanded to know “Which one of you is Malala?” When she answered, “I am Malala”, the man opened fire” (Kennedy- Macfoy). However she survived the bullet and actually gave one of the biggest messages ever, education for all girls. No one knew should would live and will make a change on the gender roles towards education, especially the Tailban who thought they have gotten away of the assassination. She gave a lot of speeches towards this powerful disapproval of women education and to create a stand that women deserve the right to education themselves. As her ideas and message became to spread, “she became one of the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize” (Kettler). She also got her own day called Malala day on July 12, 2015 where she continued to take action on women education and with Malala funds she was able to open a school in Lebanon. Malala became a symbol over the education for girls and the disagreement towards gender

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.

After reading the book ‘’I Am Malala’’ I noticed that she was one of the bravest strong young girls in the world. Malala Yousafzai is a young girl born on July 12, 1997, in the city, Mingora in Pakistan. She fought for something that is she is passionate about. Heroes are people who stand up for something, they are courageous, they are noble and they are loyal to something they stand for. Malala is known as the fifteen-year-old girl who got shot because she fought for women’s rights and education. This young girl named Malala is brave, persistent, and influential.

As Malala yousafzai was growing up she had to overcome many obstacles. And I think that the biggest obstacle that she had to overcome was being shot in the head by the Taliban. Also she overcame being afraid of the Taliban. And the most important thing that she overcame was not going to school.

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

Malala mentions many women in her book those who have been targeted wounded or even killed because they chose to speak out against the corrupt. Malala mentions Malalai the person who she named after, who was killed but inspired troops to fight and  Benazir Bhutto who was the first democratically elected leader of Pakistan who inspired women to speak out. Malala are like these icons in many different ways but how are they different? How do the lives of these women parallel each other? How do the fates of Malalai of Maiwand and Benazir Bhutto foreshadow Malala’s fate? These are the questions I will be answering in this essay.

She realized the unjust inequality all around her. She began to tell of her experiences and speak out against the Taliban for her right to be educated. (Yousafzai) Malala was one of few who spoke out because the others were afraid of the punishments. She and other passionate women have demanded their rights back from the dominant men. They no longer could tolerate the inequality and wanted it to end.

Around the world, women’s rights have been limited because the government and men feel women will overpower them. I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb demonstrates how women’s rights have been limited and restricted due to the Taliban taking control over The Swat Valley of Pakistan. Before the Taliban, women could have jobs however they were limited to certain kinds of jobs. Growing up, Yousafzia felt that girl could strive to achieve more if they are educated. However, the government and the Taliban saw that women having more opportunities would interfere what they considered their culture and traditions. However, Yousafzai saw other women with the same culture and tradition having more freedom that the women in Swat Valley.

The movie begins with a beautiful saying by Malala that “It is better to live like lion for one day, then to live like slave for a hundred years”. Malala Yousafzai, daughter of Tor Pekai yousafazai and Ziauddin Yousafzai, was born in the town of Mingora, Pakistan, located in Swat valley which is a heavenly place with flowing waterfalls and clear lakes. The Yousafzai’s family tree never mentioned a girls’s name but Malala’s birth was celebrated by her father and her name was first girl name to be on the family tree. Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of Malala was a liberal person as he favoured girl education in such a narrow minded and conservative society of Pakistan. Therefore, he started his own school in Mingora, he used to perform all the duties of his school-from teaching to sweeping and Malala grew up watching her father teaching and doing all the other tasks of school. Malala was fascinated by education and she loved to give lectures and pretend to be a teacher in empty classrooms. Malala’s life took a sharp turn when she became a correspondent for BBC journalist whereby her identity was not revealed and she was named as Gul Makai. Every single night Malala expressed her emotions and feelings to the BBC journalist on female education and the journalist recorded her feelings and published it as Gul Makai Diaries. The Taliban, a terrorist organization, was strictly against girl education and they were peeved and frustrated with the Gul Makai Diaries and as a result, the Taliban started a campaign against girl education, saying girl education is against Islam. In addition, Taliban started bombing schools in Mingora and they bombed three schools in one night. Altogether more than 400 schools were bombed in Pakistan and the Taliban accomplished their goal

Since the first time that I looked through the syllabus I knew that I had two books in my mind that I wanted to read: “I’m Malala” and “Trafficked.” However, I already knew Malala, not her entire story or the obstacles she had to overcome, but I knew how brave she was. My decision to pick “I’m Malala” was based on my curiosity to understand Malala’s story and my admiration for her. I wanted to understand how, when, and why she was shot for fighting for something that in my reality seems to be a right of any human being: access to education. Also, how a young girl can have this mentality and courage to fight against an entire culture and system. Now that I finished the book, I understand Malala and I truly believe she is a special human being. I respect not only her but her family who so bravely was able to teach her values and give her pieces of advice which did not correspond to the same values that Pakistan’s culture wants that, especially a woman, to have. In this analysis, I will be using the following terms: empathy, perception, categorization, macroculture, microculture, muted group, power, human rights, ethnocentrism, and discrimination.