I Am Malala

Malala’s memoir, I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, featuring Patricia McCormick, portrays a detailed account of the events in her life in Swat Valley, Pakistan that led up to her near death.

Malala Youafzai's activism started with her passion for education. As a child Malala loved school and felt it was very important. In 2007 the Taliban invaded her home town Swat Valley Pakistan forcing their strict Islamic law onto the ones who lived their. The Taliban were going to extreme measures to prevent women from going to school. Malala being very passionate about her education since a young age

I Am Malala is about the true story of a fourteen year old girl’s campaign for women’s right to education. The campaign began when this fundamental right was stolen by the Taliban. The memoir is set in a town called Mingora in a district called Swat Valley, near Afghanistan. Malala’s father was a good speaker and was consistently a part of environmental, social, and political causes in Swat Valley. Malala’s father encouraged her to learn and to be an independent woman, even though most women were illiterate and weren’t inclined to pursue an education. He was an English teacher and opened schools for boys and girls with his friends.

“The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.” This quote by Malala Yousafzai is a profound explanation of what she has persevered and what her perseverance has achieved. The book I Am Malala is an autobiography written by Malala Yousafzai, a women's rights activist from Swat Valley in Pakistan.

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.

Malala later went on to say on her sixteenth birthday, while she was in New York as a guest speaker at the United Nations. She said, “Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are the most powerful weapons. One child one teacher one book and one pen can change the world:.(pg. 310) A Quotes from Malala: “I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those

Lastly, this paragraph is about her courage. First, is she took manager courage to do what she did in the world that is still going on. Also, in the text it stays” “Malala's fears of retaliation did not subside, though. When asked on a Pakistani talk show about the dangers of speaking out, she eerily described how the Taliban

The memoir is written by the victim herself, Malala Yousafzai. The story contains narratives of her childhood, having been born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12, 1997. Her childhood was peaceful and serene until a group of Muslim extremists, called the Taliban, took control over her homeland. After the Taliban took over, everything changed and people’s lives started to go downhill. The group first took control over the Swat Valley and prohibited the right for girls’ education. Ignoring the Taliban‘s commands, Malala attended a school that her anti-Taliban father built. Following this, she began to take action to fight for her right to learn. She was determined that there was nothing that could stand in her way of a better

Malala Yousafzai being a completely different person that any girl in her country demonstrates the gruesome ,and savage nature of the men and women in the country of Pakistan. She not only shows the unawareness driven by fright among the people there, but displays how horrid it truly was. Influences of a misinterpretation form of Islam yield the innocent under the hands of the miserable forces of the evil such as the Taliban. Subsequently, the country of Pakistan under Taliban rule has gone through continuous fear and discriminations that strip girls from their education. Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani woman who only wanted an education, was obligated to view her life at its worst and at the same time, view the desire and dreams of girls who brawl for their education that they have been denied. Yousafzai has glimpsed and lived through a world that no American child could have ever imagined and cherishes an education what no child would have imagined losing. Nonetheless, through her novel, I Am Malala, Yousafzai has put into effect an extraordinary and a determined message to the world of a sincere love for education and peace. Malala utilizes strong repetition, vivid imagery, and powerful ethos in her biography to make it stand out extremely.

The book "I am Malala" is story about a young girl who stands up for women's education. Malala lives in Swat Valley in Pakistan. Malala describes the Swat Valley as beautiful and amazing. But the Swat Valley turns completely upside down when the Taliban arrive. The place that Malala once loved became a nightmare. The Taliban believed that girls should not go to school and not get education. Malala loved school more than anything and still went to school even though her father and she received death threats from the Taliban. The Taliban blew up all girls' schools all across Swat, leaving more than hundreds of kids' dead and harassed women who did not follow the Taliban's rules. These threats and actions of the Taliban did not stop Malala

Standing Up For Education I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. UK, Orion Books, 2013, 291 pages £7.99. Reviewed by Pedro Teles, AISCT student on 16 November 2015. I would never think a 16 year old girl could write such an amazing and inspiring book. I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai is a book where the 16 year old Pakistani girl named Malala lives in a country where women have no rights.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school understudy and instruction extremist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa territory. She is known for her instruction and ladies' rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had on occasion banned young ladies from going to class.

In contrast, Malala’s attempt to create social change was far more dangerous. Malala and many other girls in Pakistan are denied the right to education when the Taliban seize power in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. Malala’s struggle takes place in contemporary Pakistan where speaking out is considered very dangerous. The memoir revels the destruction of Pakistan founder, Ali Jinnah’s original vision of a ‘land of tolerance’ by increasing Islamisation; two military dictatorships ; corrupt politicians, poverty, illiteracy and the rise of the ‘forces of militancy and extremism’ exemplified by the Taliban, who was led by Maulana Fazlullah and the imposition of terror and fear under the guise of sharia law. The repression of individual freedom made people fearful to speak out. The Taliban had banned women from going ‘outside without a male relative to accompany (them)’ and told people ‘stop listening to music, watching movies and dancing’. The Taliban had ‘blown up 400 schools’ and had held public whippings demonstrated the consequences of disobedience, as did the execution of ‘infidels’ like young dancer, Shabana, whose body was dumped in the public square. Both texts, however more so Malala than Rita reveal that speaking out in a volatile and dangerous political environment does involve more risks, but is essential for change to occur.

Malala Yousafzai begins her story as a young girl who lives in Swat Valley, Pakistan as a teenager she becomes extremely outspoken about her beliefs of women’s rights and education. In the process of standing up for what she believes in the Taliban targets her, tracks her down, and shoots her in the head. I Am Malala, written by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb is an autobiography about Malala’s life from when she was a small girl to her teenage years. Malala, the protagonist of this story may be described as determined, brave, and intelligent.

In this powerful book, there is a very important lesson hidden troughout it. The author’s message to her readers is to speak out during times of injustice, even if you stand alone. To be brief about the story, Malala was born and raised in the Muslim country of Pakistan, where women are inferior to men in many ways. Her father ran many schools, including the girls school she attended. However, a militant group known as the Taliban invaded and brainwashed many Pashtuns about their holy book called the Quaran. As a result, more rights were