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I Am Malala Mood

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I am on page 179 of 195 pages. I am at the part where Malala and her family try to get used to Birmingham, England, where they now live after Malala was in the hospital. They discover new things they never tried before and Malala sees that the school there has a projector, wifi, laptops, and more things schools in Pakistan are lacking. Tone or mood is the author’s craft that does well in the novel, I am Malala. For example, when Malala and her family returned to Mingora, there were “piles of wreckage, burned out cars, and smashed-out windows...It seemed that every building was pockmarked with bullet holes”(104, par. 2). Also, when they went to check on their house later, “My brothers immediately ran off to check on their pet chickens. They came back crying; all that was left was a pile of feathers and bones. …show more content…

3). This mood is disappointing, depressing, and sad since the whole city they had live in for their whole lives was completely destroyed and the chickens the boys loved were now dead. Furthermore, when Malala realizing the Taliban are targeting her, the since in very sad and sorrowful. For example, to show this mood she writes, “They looked troubled and hurriedly shut down whatever they’d been looking at”(117, par. 2), “The worst had happened”(118, par. 4), “my dear father was near tears”(118, par. 5), and “My proud, fearless Pashtun father was shaken in a way I’d never seen”(118, par. 7). Tears, shaking, and troubled indicate and represents a sorrow. Lastly, when Malala’s family meets Malala in the hospital, it was happy and touching. “But when the door opened and I heard familiar voices saying jani and pisho, and when everyone fell upon me, kissing my hands because they were afraid to touch me, finally, I cried. I cried and cried and cried some more. Oh, how I cried” (152, par.

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