I Am Malala Figurative Language

Throughout other parts of the world, there are diverse cultures and customs that is foreign to what one is used to. However, some are beginning to yearn for change toward their culture for the good of their future. Such as a young Pakistani girl named, Malala Yousafzai who lived in Swat Valley. She chose to step up against her traditions of many not getting education equality by doing the contrary and persuaded others to join her in the revolt by, writing a novel known as, I Am Malala. She influences her wide variety of audiences by her serious and thankful tone and diction, vivid imagery, and the use of the theme, Struggle for one’s rights. Malala provides a serous and thankful tone throughout her novel due to her choice of diction about certain subjects. She does this in order to prove how much of an endeavor her situation was and how much she respected those that helped her. By using terms such as, “chaos” and “blasphemy” to portray a sense of seriousness towards her argument throughout her novel when talking about the trouble of fighting. She also says in the beginning of a speech for winning a Nobel

For example, in the prologue it states, “I can hear the neighborhood kids playing cricket in the alley behind our home” (Yousafzai pg. 1). Which shows that she uses the sense of hearing to create a sort of environment for the reader to experience what she is experiencing. Another example is also shown in the prologue of the novel, which states that, ”I smell rice cooking as my mother works in the kitchen” (Yousafzai pg. 1). Showing that she not only used the sense hearing in her novel, but the sense of smell for the reader to imagine the environment around her during the time period and location. As a result, giving evidence that Malala utilized imagery in her novel to persuade the reader by displaying it in her