I Am Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a women and children activist born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12th 1997. While growing up, she began advocating for the right to education among girls . Due to her persistence and determination in her activism, on October 9th 2012 Malala was shot on her way home from school by a gunman. She survived the incident and became more passionate towards her fight for education for young females. This incident gave her popularity and in 2013 Malala became nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won in 2014. Malala became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (Yousafzai 481). Due to the problems that young females had been facing in Pakistan and worldwide, it was essential to understand her education, the oppression by the Taliban, the devotion towards her religion named Islam and activism on the basis of the novel ‘I Am Malala’.

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.

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.

Malala Yousafzai speaks out after she was shot by the Taliban on the left side of her head for attending school. She then decided to recount the event and write a speech which she presented to the United Nations. Her speech was intended to bring awareness to people that education should be available to males and females.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for education, especially for females, and equal rights to education in the middle east. She revolutionized education equality for children. She has received many peace awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. The Taliban outlawed education in Pakistan, where she lived, for all females in 2009. She continued to attend classes and speak out on her BBC blog, the radio, and was even in a documentary about her life in the middle east and going to school as a girl despite the new law. In early October of 2012, when Malala was 15, she became the victim of an attempted murder by a Taliban gunman. She was shot in the head on the bus ride home from school. She was rushed to the hospital and after being stabilized, she was moved to another hospital to remove the bullet. After her tragic personal experience, she became well known and used her newfound popularity to advocate for education in the middle east. This speech is just one example of the many speeches she gave to bring attention to the problem. She also asked many other influential people with a higher status to help her bring awareness to the cause. To understand Malala’s speech the reader needs to understand what her goal is, what rhetorical devices she uses to reach that goal and how effective the speech is. She is quite effective in getting her goal across to the audience through her speeches by using her public speaking skills to get her audience to agree with what she has to say.

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

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.

The book I am Malala, written by Malala Yousafzai herself, tells the tale of the struggle for education in Pakistan, and countries alike and the voice of one girl that changed the world forever. Malala Yousafzai is a young woman born in 1997 who was born in an area of the world that does not value women, yet alone their education. Malala grew up encouraged to be a woman of independence and intelligence rather than a simple wife, unlike most girls in the Swat Valley. A valley that faces many hardships. Malala was an avid student, but the arrival of the Taliban made education for women even harder to achieve. The Taliban were a religious extremist group that committed terrible acts in the name of their religion and wrongly represented

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.

The autobiography I Am Malala was written by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai. The author Christina Lamb is a foreign correspondent who has had experience writing non-fiction novels about people of different cultures. The author Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner who is familiar to public speaking and writing. Malala has had many interviews with news stations and has even wrote an anonymous diary for BBC.

“I am Malala” is a true novel based on the strong, brave, and courageous fourteen years old who kept her ground and stood up for the women’s right to education. In 2011 Malala was shot in the head twice by a Taliban man on her way home from school on the bus, the very people who took control of Swat village where she lived. They had banned any female the right to have an education, in which Malala would not be silenced. “Who is Malala?” shouted the man before he quickly shot and left her for dead on Tuesday, October 9th, 2012.

Malala Yousafzai was a young girl in Pakistan who lived a regular life, she never imagined the day in which laws were placed against her actions. On October 9 in 2012 she was shot for standing up for her right of education. Throughout her life, she had always heard about the Taliban but that never stopped her from attending events on speaking out about them. In her memoir, she shows her strong belief for female rights. Throughout her prologue she expresses a tone of hopeful to fear. The purpose of her book is to inform readers about the problems that she faced for standing up for her rights and she wants to influence young girls to be brave and to express their voice.