Am Malal The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban

Decisions are made complex by the variables involved, and the situation in which the decision is made. Both Farah and Malala were faced with complex decisions which changed their lives, and the people around them. In I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World, Malala had to make a decision with the extreme forces of the Taliban, her quest for her, and every other girl’s education, and her concern for her family all pressuring her. While Farah, in The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir had to also make her life changing decision while coping with her mother’s illness, the loss of her leg, multiple family members dead at the feet of the Taliban, and extreme discrimination all pushing her to oblivion. However, these two

Her passion for education began as a young girl. Her father, a school principal, instilled a desire for learning. As Malala grew older she realized that girls her age were not encouraged or simply were not allowed to complete their high school education. She is declaring who she is and what she stands for. The title, I am Malala, tells the reader Malala is confident in who she is and was not going to back down to anyone, including the Taliban. The title is a big statement of who she is. The statement is made in the book when she talks about how the Taliban is trying to limit women’s right to education, and how she wanted to change it. In the book, she talks proudly about her education and what she was willing to do to stand up for it. This

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.

One of the reasons why Malala is a hero because she shows courage and bravery through her actions. First of all, Malala kept going to her school even though death threats kept coming to her and to her family. This shows that Malala is brave because she did not care what the Taliban did she cared more about her education even though the Taliban kept threatening her. Secondly, when the Taliban began to attack the girl’s school, she gave a speech and the title of her

As Americans, we are privileged in many ways one of the main reasons being education. Malala Yousafzai is a hero who disobeyed the Taliban and urged girls be allowed an education. She is a 20-year-old female Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is one of many people who has survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Malala has impacted the world in a positive way for countless people in many different ways.

“Education is a powerful weapon we can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela expresses this statement in hopes of showing others his compelling beliefs towards education. From childbirth to adulthood, as one thrives, they acquire knowledge about many aspects of the world, and the manner in which people interact and behave is influenced by the society around them. Each person embarks on a unique journey and creates their own opinions. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a jewish holocaust survivor, and during an interview on “The Daily Show,” Malala Yousafzai, a taliban survivor, share the world from their perspectives having endured exceptionally difficult situations. Both Wiesel and Yousafzai share their gruesome experiences to powerfully

I am Malala is the story of a young womans fight to bring education to girls, in a country that believes women should have no rights, no matter the consequence and it forces readers to think about how important education for girls in third world countries is, I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is written by Malala Yousafzai and was published in 2013 by Back Bay Books.The story revolves around teenager, Malala Yousafzai, and her life in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Malala is a child activist who fights for girls rights to education. However, in Pakistan the Taliban is extremely against women doing anything without a man by their side. Malala’s travels and speaks on the importance of education, but this public puts her in danger of getting punished by the taliban. I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is about the importance of education for girls and the struggles people in Pakistan, especially women, have faced since the Taliban took over.The book is an inspiring tale that makes readers realize just how blessed they are to have been able to receive an education, it allows for them to get an inside perspective of how hard and how dangerous it is for girls to attend school.

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

The media has dealt with Malala’s story depending where the news is coming from it is dealt with differently some news stations talked more about the terrorism aspects, some talked more about her standing up to the taliban, and others talked about her condition and how she was after the shooting. Malala isn't very important in the contemporary world because many people still don't know her and her story and if they are aware of her they know very little. Malala’s memoir and documentary fits in her life by being able to spread her story to wider audience and let them know what she has gone through and what she is fighting for.

I Am Malala is a memoir by Malala Yousafzai that chronicles her experiences in standing up for education in Pakistan. Malala spent her childhood advocating for girls’ rights both in and out of the school system. Her distinguished father, Ziauddin, encouraged her to take a stand and continue to attend school, even when the Taliban decreed that girls were forbidden from getting an education. Malala writes, “My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn’t realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us” (146). On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Malala was traveling home from school when a Talib boarded her bus and asked, “Who is Malala” (9)? The man shot Malala in the head. After a miraculous recovery, Malala continued to fight for education for girls around the world. By standing up for women’s rights in Pakistan, Malala inspires others to do the same in their communities.

Belen Castillejos. Kelli Magargal. English 100 3 November, 2014. I am Malala Today in the United States, freedom is taken for granted by almost all citizens. People think that because of the way our government is structured, not having freedom will never be an issue.

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 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, I am Malala, it details the journey of Malala’s fight for her and millions of other girls to have an education. Malala was born on Swat Valley in Pakistan. She is a girl like any other but she has her special talents. Malala lives in Mingora with her two younger brothers and her parents. Before the Taliban came to Pakistan, Swat Valley was a peaceful region known for its beauty, and tourists came from all over the world to see its tall mountains, lush green hills and crystal clear rivers. Malala’s father, Zaiuddin, ran a school and that’s where Malala’s love for education grew. Many people thought that her school was not in the straight path of Islam.

“Teenage girl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking up about girls education.” This was what most headlines in October 2012 consisted of. Millions of girls are denied an education globally. Their lives are changed at such a young age as most are forced into arranged marriages. Malala wasn’t silenced by a bullet, she spoke out. Girls education is being denied around the world and is being addressed because women’s rights matter.