Education for Everyone Malala Yousafzai is a young Pakistani girl who is an education activist. Education is the most important thing adults can offer children. One day the children of this generation are going to be the teachers, doctors, and politicians. Children everywhere should receive the benefit of being educated. In the compelling novel I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, she opens the minds of others about about the importance of education within all cultures. The historical background is admissible, and the professional reviews clarify all the importance and power this book holds. The way that Malala was brought up made a big impact on what she believes in today. She was born on July 12, 1997 (“Malala” 1). Her mother, Toor Pekai, …show more content…
Malala is the youngest person to have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize (“Profile” 1). Most people her age are not as concerned about education and gender equality. She believes that girls deserve the same schooling as boys when most teenages would not lift a finger to try and make any change at all. It is amazing that she worked to bring awareness to something that is so important, and she completely deserves the award. Along with winning a Nobel Peace Prize, she has a fund set up in her name that helps children in education all around the world (“Profile” 2). She wants children everywhere to be able to receive a good education and this is important. On the other hand, winning prizes was not the only way she was noticed for speaking out about what she believed in. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Malala was shot by the Taliban (Yousafzai 4). She was coming home from school when a man came on to her bus demanding “Who is Malala?”. Nobody actually pointed to her, but the looks she got from her friends gave it away. The man who came on to the bus then fired three shots at Malala (Yousafzai 9). To wake up one day not thinking about the chance of being shot three times and then having it happen is mind blowing. After her bus driver, Usman Bhai Jan, finally realized what happened, he drove at top speed to Swat Central Hospital (Yousafzai 245). The amount of fear that the people had to have been feeling can really make a person feel thankful that they live in a place where this does not happen. Once she was admitted in the hospital, they discovered that “the bullet hit Malala’s left brow and instead of penetrating her skull it travelled underneath the skin, the length of the side of her head and into her shoulder” (“Profile” 2). To have that happen to such a young girl is tragic. Luckily, it did not damage her brain. The world needs the compassionate mind of
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
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.
The autobiography I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai begins with the scene of young pakistani education and women’s rights activist Malala being shot in the head. Her school bus had been stopped by the Taliban who, after asking which of the girls was Malala, put a bullet into her head. Malala ends the powerful prologue with the words “Who is Malala? I am Malala and this is my story” (9). Malala then rewinds to the story of her birth and how in Pakistan, no one congratulated her parents when she was born because she was a girl. Pakistani culture pushes for the birth of a boy as an islamic majority country. However, her father saw the potential in his daughter as a great leaser and named her after one of the great female leaders in Pakistan- Malalai of Maiwand who inspired the Afghan people, who were losing hope, to spur the army to victory against the British/Indian forces. Malala describes life in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. She outlines the Indian- Pakistan revolution and the shift of the Pashtun people into the Swat Valley. 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.
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.
In the fall of 2012, a young Pakistani female was shot in the head by the Taliban while riding the bus home from school, but being shot was only one of the trails Malala Yousafzai was to overcome. Malala’s injuries were too great to be dealt with in hospitals in Pakistan; thus, she was transferred to England to undergo surgery. While in England Malala’s story became so popular that the United Nations heard of how she was shot and as a result, she had become an advocate for education; therefore, on July of 2013, at the age of sixteen, Malala, was invited to speak about her experience at the United Nation’s headquarters in New York. Her speech was intended to inform people of an epidemic that has invaded not only the Middle East but also
Sadly, during her practice of civil disobedience Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban. When the Taliban targeted Yousafzai in the attempts of silencing her, her actions gained global recognition (Botelho). Yousafzai soon became the front runner for the crusade against the ban on education; she was awarded the Sitara-e-Shujaat (a Pakistani award) and Mother Teresa award in 2012, the Clinton Global Citizen Award and Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2013, and the Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi in 2014 for her courageous acts of protest (Malala Yousafzai). Yousafzai’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize was still aimed at tackling education barriers in which she stated, “One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed (Yousafzai Lecture).” Malala Yousafzai later drove away the Taliban and put an end to the Taliban’s harsh version of shari’a law
“I am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai is a beautiful and hard breaking book at the same time. This book is an autobiography that describes the author childhood and her support on the right for girls to have an education. Through this autobiography, Malala describes the restrictions that are imposed on females in her country. There are many that believe that woman of Pakistan should not be educated in the other hands there are a few that oppose this idea. Malala’s support on education for girls almost cost her life, since she was shot by the Taliban. From a multicultural perspective Malala’s story touches on topics such; culture shock, discrimination within your own culture, oppression, religion, family and woman’s right. Despite the opposition
Malala is globally acclaimed for her courageous efforts in promoting children and women’s education under such extreme conditions. Recently, she was nominated for the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony held on World Children’s Day this year. She was the first Pakistani woman to b...
I am Malala is an extraordinary auto-biography based on a teenager named Malala Yousafzi whose dream was to get an education and become a doctor and, for women in Pakistan to have the right and access to education. She grew up in Swat Valley, a beautiful part of northwestern Pakistan with amazing scenery. When Malala was born, very little people in her community bothered to congratulate her parents, Ziauddin and Tor Pekai, because a girl being born is seen as a failure on the part of the parents. Malala’s father, Ziauddin is a very well educated man that grew up studying poetry and literature and earned his family’s respect by winning several debating competitions. In Malala’s culture of, Pashtun and devout Muslim, girls are refused an
Malala started her speech with some holy words of Islam and then thanking god and her parents, family and all those people around the world who supported her. She also dedicates her award to helpless and forgotten children who desperately want education. She also pointed towards the importance of providing education, especially to girls instead of getting them married at a tender
Malala received the Nobel Peace Prize, being the youngest ever to have, on October 10th, 2014. Her continued work in activism for women’s rights and education has lead her to start a nonprofit organization called the Malala Fund from which she sends any money she received to those around the world in need of education. Her autobiography: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban tells about her story and how education is pivotal for anyone and everyone.
In the biography ‘I am Malala’ by Malala Yousafzai, two important characters are Malala and her father. In this essay, I will describe what lessons Malala Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, has taught the audience. I will also compare these two characters and see the similarities and differences that they may have. The biography ‘I am Malala’ is about the life of 14 year old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai who was shot in the head by the Taliban for standing up for women's education.
"Books are a better investment in our future than bullets". Malala Yousafzai emphasized to the world at the Oslo Education Summit 2015 in Norway where she became a Nobel Prize winner at just 17 years old. Education is so important that she dedicates her life to attaining educational equality but something still deprives children of it. That is violence such as war, conflict and terrorism as she often mentioned in her speech. She alone cannot solve the problem so now first we need to know reality and raise our voices to provide equal educational opportunity with all children. Don’t take it for granted but take a look at the actual situations in the world.