Education is the Key Malala Yousafzai is an ordinary Pakistani girl, except for the fact that she is completely different from all of her other female comrades. She believes education is a right for everyone, and does not understand why the boys can play cricket while the women are stuck in the house cooking food for their husbands and family. Her own family, however, supports her, and gives her the freedom to a good education. From the introduction of I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot by the Taliban to the end of Part I, Yousafzai can be seen as a persistent individual, striving to pass on a message about the horrors of living in a typical war zone, dictated by an alarming group of individuals restricting women’s rights and claiming lives for their own benefits. Her journey through a life of terror, perfectly documented, shows that “the only thing [that has] changed [in her life] is everything” (iPhone 6s - Apple). Throughout the documentation, she develops logos by showing that lives are only restricted and controlled, not helped, by the Taliban, especially in the …show more content…
It believes that women do not have a right to education, and their sole purpose is to make food and take care of the family. They do not see education as a “‘right of the children’” (Yousafzai 84). Jihadi extremists, as part of the Taliban, teach young men the exact opposite meaning of jihad (Yousafzai 93). The literal meaning of the Arabic word jihad is to struggle or strive; it is not holy war, and it does not mean blowing up people (Just Islam). However still, signs were posted all around the Swat Valley by the Taliban, asking for people to “‘Contact [them] for Jihad Training,’ listing a phone number to call” (Yousafzai 97). Many of these volunteers never came back (Yousafzai 87), and families still cry over the assumed deaths of their loved ones that they will potentially never see
The cover of this autobiography is stunning and interesting. The lay-out of this non-fiction is put together nicely and they play a significant role in displaying this novel. The pictures in the book bring the whole piece to perfection; they give a visual to what the author is writing. They are appealing to the text and fascinating to look at. This book includes a table of contents, an introduction, a conclusion, a timeline of events in Pakistan and Swat, a glossary, and acknowledgments.
The journey of Malala’s life has been fighting to get education for young girls of Pakistan. Malala wants to show everyone how valuable girls are and that they don’t need to be hidden away from the public, “My mother always told me,’hide your face, people are looking at you.’ I would reply, ‘it does not matter; I am also looking at them’” (Yousafzai 43). Malala will no longer stand for
The Taliban was a group destined to do wrong and was against equal rights for women. Malala Yousafzai was a girl determined for women to have the same rights as men and she got “punished” by the taliban with a gunshot through the head. Malala recovered fine and went on to become a women's right activist. She also was awarded many prizes for her great courage. Malala Yousafzai was a strong women strengthened by the obstacles she faced that have gotten her where she is.
First, Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani civil rights activist fighting for equal education in her country. Both Malala and her father, who ran a school close to their house, were threatened by the Taliban to stop allowing girls to go to the school and stop speaking outright about equal rights. However, Malala was already an advocate for girls education, writing on a BBC blog under a pseudonym, and neither her nor her father would back down. As a result, the Taliban attacked Malala’s bus one day as she was going to school, singling her out, the terrorists shot her three times and injured some of her friends. Although she
Education is something various people feel extremely passionate about and would not want anything else, but a strong educational system around the world. Countless children around the world do not acquire the right to an education and various of those children are girls. Malala is one of those persons that enjoys education and her dream is to have an education for every girl that is being deprived of her rights. Malala has slowly turned herself into a symbol of peace and her novel is able to reflect that throughout her novel by applying various rhetorical devices. Malala Yousafzai the author of “I am Malala” is able to apply imagery, pathos, and analogy effectively to make an impact on her audience.
Malala started her heroic journey when she started blogging under a pen name “Gul Makai” how life is with the Taliban for the BBC. She knew that by doing this she was taking a risk, but for her, the risk was worth it if she could get girls to have an education. She was able to go back to school when
Soon after, Malala was born and a favorite of her father’s. He taught her the value of education and how he had to struggle and claw his way to get a decent education. He preached that every person should have the right to go to school and be educated. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is a very influential person in the village and a great role model as Malala grew up. He participated in Anti-Taliban organizations and constantly preached for peace, educational rights and for th...
The vicious roars of the canons of the Taliban carved out the voice of Malala, who not only had the courage to fight for her rights but was also dauntless enough to take bullets in the forehead for her cause. “I’m hopeful that we all in the UN will be united in the goal of education and peace, and that we will make this world not just a better place, but the best place to live. Education is hope, education is peace,” Ms. Yousafzai stressed. But as always, there are people, burdening mother earth with their figures, who not only debate against gender equality but also question the plausibility of Malala Yousefzai. There is one question that spawns amidst this scenario:
Imagine a world with no education. It is hard not to imagine a society where no knowledge, no future, or no life. If the world had no education; how will we build our sources? How will life know what is right and what is wrong? How would society know about the stages of life from past, present, and future? Just think how empty the world would be without education. Malala Yousafzai, an activist of woman and children's right of education known for her courageous acts to improve education globally. Malala Yousafzai has positively benefitted modern society by speaking up for her rights of education and by inspiring others to join her to create equality for all.
By using raw emotion and memories from her past she advocates how essential getting a proper education is for children and women. In her biography,“ I am Malala”, she displays this when saying, “ Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow… it is neither Eastern or Western, it is human,”(Yousafzai, pg.163 ). When Yousafzai expresses this outlook to her readers she is trying to emphasize how education should be offered to everyone and is fighting for equality in foreign countries such as her home village is SWAT Valley. Readers can appeal to this since they are being introduced to a whole new way of living since most of her readers live in the modern day world where they are not able to relate to Malala’s old way of life. This is Yousafzai’s main goal when speaking out about about the education issues to influence change and encourage others to take the first step towards
Malala Yousafzai is seen as an example of the youth being determined with positive motives to achieve her goal. She was focused in spreading her ideas and thoughts on education to all, especially girls. Yousafzai’s actions and beliefs were shown to many like her, which convinced many to fight for their right to learn. Her struggle for educational equality has been known and heard around the world and in doing so, she has become an international symbol of peaceful protest. Yousafzai’s effort to convey her audience to listen to her message was superb because her proficient use of rhetorical devices such as pathos, ethos, imagery and diction lured her audience to see the meaning of her efforts to help educational problems in society.
Writer, political activist, and feminist Malala Yousafzai once said, “One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.” Education is not a luxury, but rather a basis for survival; sadly, thirty-one million females ages five through eleven are not in a primary school and seventeen million of these females are expected to never enroll in school (Education). Malala Yousafzai fought, and is currently still fighting for education rights for women and children (Van). Malala Yousafzai defied a law which she determined unjust and was prepared to pay the ultimate price: her life. Due to Yousafzai’s personal beliefs, she choose to participate in civil disobedience by protesting the ban on education. Malala Yousafzai was successful in her actions through the use of peaceful protest. Yousafzai committed an act of civil disobedience in the eyes of the Taliban. Civil disobedience is defined as peace protest that violates a law intentionally (Suber).In addition to
Her powerful voice to the Islamic world says. Her ideal asserts that education for both girls and boys is a critical step towards becoming a country in which gender equality exists in everyday life.
Malala Yousafzai give a speech at the United Nations. The terrorist attack make her strong person although she is young. She did not give a speech for revenge, however, she finds that talking about the importance of receiving education for all people at the time of shot. Further, Malala has a pure heart so she can’t hate Taliban. She has learned to be peaceful to all people from Muhammad-the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. And that what the religions asks people to be. She also talked about the importance of receiving education, and how educated people are stronger than uneducated people. That is the cause why Taliban against education. Malala pointed that peace and education are related to each other. Moreover, she presented that women and girls should be encouraged to receive education therefore they are the most individuals who suffering from inequality to be educated.
In the Afterward, Miriam Cooke says, “[a] woman’s jihad, to use Ansaro Bah’s term from the poem “Jihad,” contains what some might consider two contradictions: women and war, feminism and Islam” (Cooke, 257). There is a false binary that it is impossible to be both Muslim and feminist. The hijab is viewed as what makes a Muslim subordinate to men. When in fact, the hijab, is actually seen as a feminist movement for Muslim women. There are plenty of Muslim feminist role models, many other women look up to.