According to the Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, confidence is stated as being “a feeling or consciousness of one 's powers or reliance on one 's circumstances.” Both Jane in Jane Eyre and Malala Yousafzai in I Am Malala faced significant obstacles in their lives and were constantly confronted by their fears. Theodore Roosevelt stated that “Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing” Malala and Jane eventually overcame these fears with the help of pivotal role models which aided them in giving them self-confidence after dreadful events happened to them. In both Jane Eyre and I Am Malala the protagonists went through an immense struggle early on in their lifetime, and they both had a role model that …show more content…
“When a girl is born… she is not welcomed, neither by father nor by mother.” stated Ziauddin in a TED talk in 2014. Ziauddin has also stated that he is proud of his daughter 's eloquence and single-mindedness. He named Malala after Malalai of Maiwand, who is a famous Pashtun warrior woman and poet from southern Afghanistan. "Malalai had a voice, and I wanted my Malala to have the same - that she would have freedom and be brave and be known by her name," says Mr. Yousafzai. He gave Malala the name of a warrior and instilled the knowledge and confidence of a warrior inside of her too. Mr. Yousafzai openly speaks his mind on the topics of equal rights and education and encourages Malala to do the same. By doing this he regularly risked his life by talking to the media. Malala sees how passionate her dad is in risking his life for women 's education and decides that she wishes to do the same. The constant death threats against her father worried Malala, but she was determined to follow in her father 's footsteps so she wrote a blog about life in the Swat Valley. He gives Malala the confidence she needs to speak out by being a role model and by being a good example for Malala to follow. Mr. Yousafzai speaks on his and Malala’s relationship in a recent article ‘He Named Me Malala’ on biography.com, describing them as being “one soul, two different bodies.” Mr. Yousafzai advocates for what he believes in and Malala sees this and wishes to do the
Their cultural and ideal society believe that boys are more value and important then girls.On the day of Malala’s birth, people in her village of Mingora pity her mother Toor Pekai and didn’t congratulate her father Ziuaddin Yousafzai. Having a daughter in general was frown upon and consider as a burden due to the effort and responsibility of teaching the female to do household chores as while as marrying her off, their birth is often refer to a glomming day.“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain.” Ziauddin believed in Malala and importance of education and despite its gender he celebrated his first born child, which resulted to Malala’s passion for education that lead to the determination to fight for all girls education.
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 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.
Malala starts by reminding readers how convenient life is in modern countries, and continues to describe the day she was shot, telling readers about everyone’s reactions and her memories of the day. She presents the question, “Who is Malala?” and proceeds to tell us her story, ending the prologue. Malala Yousafzai was born in the Swat Valley to Toor Pekai and Ziauddin Yousafzai. Malala had noticed gender inequality as a young child. Her father, Ziauddin grew up with an unfortunate stutter. Luckily, his passion about many political topics let him overcome his stutter, especially after memorizing and studying many of his
If I had not known any better, I could have assumed that this poem was actually written about Malala herself because it perfectly describes her actions. She is the main character in this book, and she can be described as intelligent, courageous, and ambitious. Her courage can be verified through her actions against the Taliban. Her ambition is seen through her drive to fight for education. With this ambition she has received nomination for a Noble Peace Prize, her own novel, and has helped countless people around the globe. The book also focuses heavily on Malala 's father, Ziauddin, who is an acitivist and teacher of the Swat village they live in. His influence over Malala is evident, and many conflicts are caused by this. For example, her father is guilt stricken with the idea that he caused her to stand up, and other people have agreed that he is at fault. However, despite all of this he is still proud of his daughter for her amazing accomplishments.
The Victorian Era encompassed a time of great discrepancy between the sexes, especially for women. The polarization of gender roles reflected on a basis of gender sexuality where men and women were granted certain advantages and disadvantages. Women were expected to realize a specific position in society based on morals of submission, passivity, and a complete lack of selfishness and independence. Constrictive notions such as these prevent individual expression and expansion. Therefore, while struggling to fill the pre-conceived expectancies of society, one forces true desires and happiness to pass as a scant priority. Charlotte Brontë's Victorian novel, Jane Eyre, explores the significance of individual fulfillment in an oppressive
Sharing her father’s passion for learning, Malala Yousafzai is a young, children’s and women’s rights activist in the Middle East. As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. After being targeted, Malala was shot in the head, however, she survived. Even with a target on her head, Malala stood up for her rights and continued to defy the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai is not only a nineteen year-old Pakistani teenager, but also a nationally recognized activist. Yousafzai advocates for the improvement of access to education with a focus on young girls and young women throughout the world. Yousafzai additionally promotes gender equality and overall world peace. Being that she was born in the male dominated country of Pakistan in 1997, she has first-hand experienced the systematic oppression faced by women residing in the country. Her activism stemmed from her love and passion for attending school and overall learning and education—traits from which she inherited from her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai whom is a Pakistani diplomat. Through her activism, Yousafzai has received multiple honors such as Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize in 2011 as well as a nomination for the International Children’s Peace prize also in 2011. Her activism has also procured her national recognition and increased her popularity, both of which had upset Taliban leaders. Taliban leaders voted to kill her and in 2012, Yousafzai survived an assassination attempt in which she was shot in the face by a Taliban member in Pakistan’s swat valley as she. In
Following the experiences of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, expresses many elements of gothic literature throughout her novel Jane Eyre. In her perfect understanding of gothic literature, she expresses the three types of evil commonly found in gothic literature, including the evil of the supernatural, the evil within or the instinctual evil motives of humans, and lastly, the evil because of societal influence. Jane Eyre experiences all of these three evils with her aunt and three cousins with her residency and return to Gateshead: Jane encounters the supernatural and the evil of societal influence as a child and she fully encounters the evil within upon her return.
Despite the threats that him and his daughter is getting he is still encouraging Malala to keep going because he believes that once you start something good, don’t stop. The shooting of Malala by the two men’s from the Taliban, Ziauddin’s point-of-view towards the shooting is that he saw it as a cowardly move from the Taliban. He believed that Taliban had no other choice to stop a girl fighting for the rights of education for girls in Pakistan so they thought they could kill her. When Malala was in hospital fighting for her life, Malala’s father thought that he was going to lose his daughter, but he believed that God was going to save her. And ever since that day Malala and Ziauddin has never stopped fighting for the rights of girls. With the support of millions around the world Malala and her father have no fear against the
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani woman, who at the age of 15, survived an assassination attempt. Now, she is an activist speaking on behalf of many young girls hoping to help them achieve an education. In, I Am Malala, we learn she was named after Malalai of Maiwand, who was the greatest hero to look up to in Afghanistan (Yousafzai with Lamb ch. 1). Her goal was to make a change in education in the world for all women. In her courage, Malala is a figure we can now all look up to for bravery, kindness, and selflessness because even after being shot she stood up for women’s education.
Malala’s father Ziauddin Yousafzai, started and ran a private school which encouraged girls to attend. He influenced her fight for her right for education. In this story, the reader can get the feeling that Malala (Jani) and her father are very close and share the same beliefs and values. However, her mother Toor Pekai did not have much of an education.
Malala courageously stood up against the Taliban and fought for young girls’ rights for basic education because of how she experienced it herself. When she was younger, “In early 2009, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education” (Kettler). She was already started fighting against the Taliban for her basic right of education when she was younger for the same motivation as she fights now because of her prior experience of being banned to go to school, having the feeling of no school, and blogging about her feelings, as stated in “ Malala begins blogging for the BBC about life under the Taliban. She describes how she feels in the final days before her school is set to close” (The Malala Fund). When she was younger ,she fought for her own right of education, but then fights for the rights of education for all young girls which makes the world a better place. In Oct. 2013, Malala meets with girls around the world and many heads of state, carrying her message of girls’ education and equality for the next few years (The Malala Fund). In order to make the world a better place, Malala brings the issue of young girls with no education to the attention of the heads of state, which they might be able to support her and help her in fixing the issue. Malala is one of the present day fighters for justice who will make the future brighter and better. In the past, Nelson Mandela had similar ways of achieving his goal for justice.
During the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë created the traditional values of what Jane lives by and what she has to live by. The start of the novel starts off with Jane Eyre, a ten year old orphan whose living with the Reeds. With different phases of Jane’s life span occurring and different characteristics of Jane developing, she is at a place where she isn 't familiar with. In the years when she was living with the Reeds, they always showed her the ways on how they think she should live, instead of how she needs to live in order to develop into someone that is able to be independent in the future. Many times, she is constantly pushing past the Victorian Era normality and standards at the beginning of the novel. Even though at the end