I am Malala is a novel of a fourteen-year-old girl who campaigned for the rights of women In education. Malala sheds light on the role of women in culture and the groups (Taliban) fighting to oppress women. Malala was shot by Taliban claiming her rights to fight for women were obscene on the bus going home. These shootings lead to several talks involving protuberant political leaders from England and Pakistan. The story of Malala shades light in the role of women in culture and the teams fighting to oppress and demean women. She fought for vital principles of democracy, freedom and liberty showing unwavering support for women’s right to education. She inspires individuals throughout the globe to fight for their rights under Taliban by allowing …show more content…
She is devastated to know that her school will be shut down but she knows that education feared by Taliban can be done out of the classrooms. She believes education empowers individuals by impacting them with knowledge which can be used to gain power and build their confidence. Malala’s father struggles with asserting himself and stammering before his intimidating father. After winning several speaking competitions he overwhelms his stammer and improves his work ethic that makes him efficacious in future. She also advocates for self-education because one can be able to achieve anything if she is exposed to the right form of study and preparation. During her travel to Islamabad with Shahid, her father’s friend, she was happy to see women with strong personalities and professional careers. She then joins political movements to condemn Taliban that opposed common learning and education by making radio transmissions and broadcasts targeting the struggling women in the society and world at large. She becomes more confident and stronger about the importance of educating the women in the
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb is a powerful book of Malala's life story. This book begins with a beautiful account of her childhood, with fond memories of her home, the gorgeous Swat Valley, in which she lived, and her beloved school. This novel also gives readers insight into the Pashtun culture and daily life. Malala is named after Malalai, a powerful Pashtun woman who changed the face of war with her powerful poetry. Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, played a significant role in shaping Malala's personality. He went against his cultural tradition and celebrated the birth of his beloved daughter, Malala. Her father is a champion of girls’ education; he is a woman’s rights advocate. He embraces democracy with passion and believes that every child in this world should be educated, especially women. Malala was born in 1997, as her father was struggling to establish his school against a deeply corrupt government and a mufti (a Muslim scholar) who opposed the education of girls. Inspired by her father words, Malala absorbed her father’s ideals and develope...
The Taliban regime was infamous for its treatment of women. Windows had to be painted black so men could not look into the windows of houses and see the women inside. Women were unable to work. Under Taliban rule, women were not allowed to be educated, unable to go to school or university. 9 out of 10 Afghan women are illiterate. Unfortunately, Meena was unwillingly cast into the role of teacher to young girls who wanted to learn how to read. Because she had been to university, girls flocked to...
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.
The novel I am Malala tells the story of a pakistani girl named Malala Yousafzai, where she illustrates her story of her life and her movements towards women’s rights and girls education. Being the youngest candidate for the nobel prize, Malala inspires a multitude of girls, women, and social activist all around. She fights to create a generation who thrives in education and who lives truly how they should live in. Therefore, Malala wields surreal imagery to illustrate her events, utilizes drastic pathos to compel the readers into action, and excessive juxtaposition to contrast the American society to hers.
One of the main controversies in this book is the plight of women and men’s struggles. Although both experienced different kinds of inequalities, women were the target of the Taliban. In 1978, women in Kabul were demanding their rights during the Afghan Women’s Year. The president who was in charge then was president Daoud, and he decreed, “The Afghan woman has the same right as the Afghan man to exercise personal freedom, choose a career, and fins a partner in marriage” (53). This decree was absolutely invalid when the Taliban expelled a humanitarian organization that was run by women, and because of that, the Taliban took over Kabul. Women were not allowed to work outside of home. Because of that, Latifa mentions that women in Kabul usually just bake bread, do embroidery,
The Taliban closed the women 's university and forced nearly all women to quit their jobs, closing down an important source of talent and expertise for the country. While the book mentioned Laila send her daughter to orphanage to receive education, Afghanistan women seeking an education were forced to attend underground schools, where they and their teachers risked execution if caught. At the same time women were forced to quit their jobs as teachers, doctors, nurses, and clerical workers when the Taliban took over, women could work only in very limited circumstances. When woman lost their opportunity for education, they automatically lost their potential of speaking, because the next generation will be raised up with no education except the sacrifices on their self-respect, then the grownups in the future will have no ability or knowledge or even lack of believe to stand up for themselves. What’s worse, women were not allowed to be treated by a male doctor unless they are accompanied by a male chaperone, it could be worse while most of the women were force to leave their job, include doctors and nurse. All of these lead to the astonishing scene when Laila goes to hospital to give birth to Aziza and was told that founding from united nation was taken away from Taliban, she went through caesarean birth with no basic hygiene supply, not even anesthetic, gave birth to Aziza. Mariam killed Rasheed, turning herself to Taliban and was executed in public, everything in “A Thousand Splendid Suns” reflects reality, a mother of seven children was executed in front of 30,000 spectators in Kabul’s Ghazi Sport stadium for murdering her husband, such execution always happen in Afghanistan. The result of Taliban’s sexism regime is not only bad for women in Afghanistan, it is also a disaster for the whole
Malala’s father grew up in Shahpur but struggled to get his education in the town where he met Malala’s mother. They married and his dream of building a school, Khushal Public School, became reality when they moved into Mingora. 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.
Women in America do not have to worry about a terrorist group coming and taking their rights away. They have a government that protects them from these groups and makes sure they have the same rights as others. In the Middle East, especially Afghanistan and Pakistan, women are scared to speak too loudly. These women live in fear each day of their lives because if they make one small mistake it could mean their life. Yet, there are some people who are fighting for women’s rights, especially women’s education. Malala Yousafzai is a girl who fought for women’s education. At the age of eleven, Malala began writing a blog for BBC Urdu. The blog described how she was upset that women’s education under the Taliban would be forced to stop. Malala also appeared on national television talking about women’s education. She has become a symbol of resistance against the Taliban. Even after Malala was put on the Taliban’s hit list, she continues to speak out about what she felt needed to be said. Malala would give her life for this cause, and she almost did. On October 9, 2012, Malala was on her way home from her morning classes when a man walked on to her bus and asked, “Who is Malala”. When she said it was her he shot her. The bullets hit her head and her leg. The Taliban ordered for her to be shot because she was promoting western culture in Pashtun areas. In another case Mukhtar Mai stood up for women’s rights and was sexually assaulted by multiple men with orders from the tribal council. The tradition in Mukhtar’s tribe was that a woman who is sexually assaulted by multiple men should kill herself, but instead of committing suicide she fought for her cause (Samira 28-30). Although the Taliban restricts women’s education for religious reaso...
In the background, the novel also recounts Afghanistan’s troubled history of the last several decades, through the eyes of a segment of the Afghan population that probably suffered and lost the most during that period, that are its women. Through this pitiable story of two women married to a man, Rasheed, who oppresses them physically as well as psychologically, the author tries to represent the situation of Afghan women, who are not only affected by the war but are also being oppressed by their domestic rulers, that are their husbands. The present paper attempts to examine the Afghan women, oppressed under the rule of patriarchy, whether at the domestic level by their husbands or at social order under Taliban rule, and their resilience and tenacity to survive, which is clearly identified throughout this novel with a glimpse of hope at the end, as the rains return, the cinemas open, the children play and the orphanages are rebuilt. Khaled Hosseini brings to this novel the subject of women's suppression in Afghanistan along with the various other restrictions on education and familial subjugation. He has created the man-dominated patriarchal Muslim world of Afghanistan where women are deprived of equality and freedom, and where “women are still very much women,” to use Simone de Beauvoir’s words (de Beauvoir [Introduction] 3)....
Throughout the history of storytelling, there have always been storybook characters that inspire and motivate young readers to become more engaged and knowledgeable about the struggles that some people go through. Reading has always been a pastime of mine; while reading I collect new friends in wonderful places that otherwise I could only dream of. Each of these characters that I have befriended and connected with over the years, has shaped my personality in some way or another, and choosing just one seems an impossible task. Although women’s rights have skyrocketed in the past century, overall the world is still predominately male-orientated, but the world of books has no bounds for inspirational women. Countless authors have written books with strong female leads, most of them fiction, but nonetheless inspirational. When choosing the most influential to me, I could start by writing about the character that first allowed me to immerse myself in the world of the written language, Nancy Drew. Or I could write about the character that allowed me to feel comfortable with being unique and intelligent, Hermione Granger. But I won’t go into those clichés, the book character that has inspired me more than the heroines starring in the hundreds of books that I’ve read is real life Super Girl, Malala Yousafzai.
This incident only succeeded in making her a symbol of courage and hope in the Islamic world. A Pakistani woman named Kainat Ali, said , but for everyone in the world who needs education.
Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at the United Nations. The terrorist attack made her a 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 the shooting. Further, Malala has a pure heart, so she can’t hate the Taliban. She has learned to be peaceful to all people from Muhammad, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha.
Before even reading this non-fiction selection, I was already informed of Malala’s greatest achievements. I knew of the courage and the passion she possessed when fighting for young women’s education. She was nevertheless a heroine in the eyes of the public. This selection describes how she achieved this fame, the mindset she started and ended with and the hardships she encountered throughout this journey.
She was inspired by her father who shared the dram that everyone would eventually be able to go to school (Yousafzai 41). Even after she was shot in the head and she was able to go to school she continues to fight for others who aren't as fortunate, especially in Pakistan (“Malala Yousafzai”). Malala also realizes that over 66 Million girls are unable to go to school so she is not fighting for a small or easy cause (Yousafzai). Malala said “I raised my voice not for myself but so that those without a voice could be heard” (Yousafzai). She proves this by when she travels to different countries to speak to the people there. For example, she traveled to Nigeria to speak with the girls who were abducted by Boko Haram from their families to help them and their families out. She also helped start the Malala Fund, its goal being to help girls who weren’t fortunate enough to receive education to get their education. This, with the help of Angelina Jolie, would start off by helping to pay for 40 girls to go to school in Pakistan (“Malala
All of the new information that A Thousand Splendid Suns presented to me, prompted me to do research of my own about women's right in Afghanistan. Through research, I discovered the prominent gender rights movement: feminism. Prior to my research, I did not understand the importance of feminism. I ignorantly believed