I Am Malala Yousafzai

It began as an ordinary day in Mingora, Pakistan, for a young girl returning home from school on her school bus. Suddenly, a masked gunman rushed into the bus and shouted, “Who is Malala?” Her friends on the bus looked back at her, and in the blink of an eye she was shot on the left side of her face. This incident was the spark that ignited a call for change in education around the world. Malala Yousafzai was the face of this change. She made significant contributions to female education rights by being an education activist and urging children to speak out and fight for their rights. She forever changed the lives of Pakistani girls who today benefit from free education and resources with numerous schools around their country.

For all of the progress that the movement to increase the education of girls around the world has made in the last few decades, there was an important piece missing that could have increased the international awareness of the movement: A face

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-

I chose I Am Malala because I am interested in women's rights, and I thought this book would be intimidating to read.

The first people we truly know are our families. At the beginning of our lives, we are completely reliant on them for the most basic needs. As one gets older, they gain independence and families provide less for physical needs; however, mental needs, such as support and encouragement, Families also have the biggest influence over their children’s political opinions and how politically involved they are. Families also determine what types of culture their children are exposed to. Looking at the books I am Malala and A Long Way Gone, we are able to see that Malala and Ishmael experience much different experiences in making social change. Malala, from I am Malala, had the support of her family and made enormous strides in fighting for education for women; whereas, Ishmael, from A Long Way Gone, did not have a family to support him, but still managed to give child soldiers a voice. With this being said, Malala and Ishmael are similar in that they were both exposed to Western culture. The extent a family supports their child and the child’s exposure to Western culture greatly affects the magnitude of social change the child could achieve. We will start by looking at Western culture and then we will further examine family encouragement.

Have you ever fought for something that you wanted for a good cause, and you had to do be courageous and brave to do it? Will have you? Will I know somebody her name is Malala Yousafzai she was a young girl that fought for a education against the Taliban. And for that she got shot by the Taliban in the back of the head, but lucky survived, and know she is speaking up against the Taliban for girls education. Malala Yousafzai was born July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan.

Joseph Campbell describes the hero’s journey as a quest where the “hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man” (Campbell 7). The heroine’s quest, according to Valerie Estelle Frankel includes “battling through pain and intolerance, through the thorns of adversity, through death and beyond to rescue loved ones” (Frankel 11). Contrary to the hero’s journey, the heroine’s journey focuses on the “culture on the idealization of the masculine” while the hero’s journey focuses on the adventures. In the inspiring autobiography, I Am

Malala mentions many women in her book those who have been targeted wounded or even killed because they chose to speak out against the corrupt. Malala mentions Malalai the person who she named after, who was killed but inspired troops to fight and  Benazir Bhutto who was the first democratically elected leader of Pakistan who inspired women to speak out. Malala are like these icons in many different ways but how are they different? How do the lives of these women parallel each other? How do the fates of Malalai of Maiwand and Benazir Bhutto foreshadow Malala’s fate? These are the questions I will be answering in this essay.

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.

Unfortunately, the story of women is the story of injustice, inequality and violence. This inequality in education between girls and boys continues to grow in the third world. We clearly see this portray in Malala’s society since the day a baby is born. Malala introduces her book with her first chapter, “A Daughter Is Born”, Malala illustrates the different reactions from parents when a girl is born, compare to the reactions families have when a boy is born. She mentions “I was a girl in a lad where riffles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away . . .

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.

There is one particular piece of writing and rhetoric that has affected my life. The book I am referring to is I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. This memoir is about the inspirational Malala Yousafzai’s fight for equal education for girls in a Pakistinian town that was taken over by the Taliban. Malala uses rhetoric and writing to explain her journey of hardships and successes. Two examples of these are the use of motifs and storytelling which are exceedingly prominent throughout the book. The motifs that are repeated throughout the memoir are all encouraging. One motif that is in the book is to never give up and continuing to try to succeed. As far as the writing style goes, Malala uses storytelling to an advantage to create moments of suspense which retains the reader to engage in what is going on in the book. To her, this book is simply telling her story.

Religion teaches us to love and respect people and have peace with everyone. Some religions also teach us that god is one and one of those religions is Islam. The holy book Quran preaches about love and about everyone being equal. However, some of the people that preach a religion, manipulate the words of the holy book according to their own benefits and use them against the people who they fear losing power to and whom they dislike. These people corrupt their religion by misinterpreting it to people and making people do what they want them to do under the name of religion. In I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai writes that some of the priests and terrorists from Taliban (which is a terrorist organization in middle easts with the leader name Fazlullah)

The book I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb is about a teenaged girl named Malala Yousafzai who got shot in the head by the Taliban for standing up for female education. The book begins in Mingora, Pakistan - where Malala lives - in October 6, 2012. She is riding a bus until it stops and a man walks on demanding for Malala to reveal herself. Albeit she didn’t reveal herself, he shot her in the head assuming she was Malala since she wasn’t wearing a burqa (a female veil).