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Rhetorical Analysis Of Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai is a Taliban girl who was shot for speaking her opinion about education rights. Malala spoke at the United Nation and gave thanks to everyone who sent her well wishes. In her speech, she speaks to all governments in hopes to give all people an equal opportunity to receive an education. Her purpose is to be an advocate for education and all young people. In her speech she discusses how her situation changed her. In her speech, Malala uses a lot of rhetorical ideas to persuade her audience. Malala’s starts off using pathos talking about how grateful she is to be speaking at the United Nations. She gives thanks to everyone who sent her well wishes and prayed for her speedy recovery and her new life. She gives thanks to her health care team that worked with her to recover her strength. She later goes on to …show more content…

“Thousands of people have been killed by the terrorists, and millions injured. I am just one of them…. here I stand ….. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard.” (Yousafzai) Her use of that quote gets people’s attention so that they listen to her and they are more likely to speak up for the education rights for others as well as those who have been attacked by terrorists. She goes on to talk about how she was shot and how that situation helped her. “The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions…nothing changed in my life except this: weakness fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. I am the same Malala.”(Yousafzai) In this quote she mentions how she is the same girl but she has more courage. This quote spoke to me because, in everyday life, people try to do stuff to put you down, or so that they can have power over you. There are some people that let that affect them and they stop trying, however, some people use that as fuel to help them reach the top. “Dear brothers and sisters, we must not

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