I Am Malala Chapter 3

In chapter 3 from I Am Malala, written by Malala Yousafzai, Malala presents how her father starts his education career, which by building a school in their homeland. In the first place, Malala introduces her mother’s childhood, and she also explains the immature view of the Pakistan society to being educated. In Malala’s memory, unlike other girls in their village, Malala’s mother was a “special case” that her father and brothers encouraged her to be an educated woman. However, her mother doesn’t complete her studies because all the village girls only do chores. Therefore, her mother gives up studying and breaks away from the “special case”. When her mother met her father, she was repentant about not completing her studies when she realized

Malala’s father is able to attempt the education program of the best college in Swat but her grandfather refuses to pay her father’s tuition fee because he wants his son to be a doctor. Nevertheless, her father’s brother-in-law offers him a room to her father that helps her father to attempt the college. However, because of some race problems and historical events in their society, her father decides to have a job as an English teacher. Those years her father in his college, her father finally plans to build a school with his coworkers because the salary of being an English teacher is too low. At the beginning, her father comes to the office of Pakistani School Organization to register his school. The officers try to demand bribes for the register fee, because the officers think he is rich. Although there are some resistances to building their school chain, her father never gives up. At the end of this chapter, Malala recalls the suicide attacks on the towers of the World Trade Center in the United States. After this tragedy happened, Malala predicts the terrorism may impact their country and the world in the

Look at her father’s characteristics, he is a man “who read so many books” and his “ambition was to have his own school”. At this point, her father is a static character because his passion of fighting for the right of being educated never changes. In her father’s view, “Just as Khattak had wanted the Pashtuns to unite against a foreign enemy, so we needed to united against ignorance” (Yousafzai ,49). Malala’s father uses metaphor to compare “united against a foreign enemy” to “united against ignorance”, that indicates their country should improve the education system, otherwise their country cannot keep up with other countries. On the other hand, Malala’s mother is a good evidence of why being well-educated is significant to woman because she is unable to help her husband to pursue his education career. Therefore, the poor education system can be seen as the root of ignorance, Malala’s father realizes the most efficient method to fight “against a foreign enemy” is being well-educated, such as expanding citizens’ depth understanding for their behaviors which can resist the growth of ignorance in their country. On the other hand, this chapter also expresses some social issues connected to the main ideas “the power of education”. Especially in the part of register her father’ school with the Pakistan