“I am Malala” is a book by Malala Yousafzai who is a girl that was being shot for standing up for education. The book tells us her life and experiences that explores discrimination, gender inequality and education for women. The book is about how Malala fights for human rights and women’s right for education. Also about how Malala fights against the Taliban, which is a political movement and military organization in Afghanistan currently wagging war within that country. Which banned girls from going to school and made Women wear head scarves when going outside.
Top two reasons of why we should read this book is because, it will make us think how lucky we are to get education, to live in a peaceful country and to not worry about when a suicide bomb will land. Making us think that till this day, people are still fighting for the right to have education. Malala revealed the struggle for girls that comes across education, she had written about what her world were like during that period of time when the Taliban was trying to get rid of (girls) schools. She kept going and going, she didn’t care what other people said to her, just like her father- Ziauddin Yousafzai. What we seem to have already, to them at that time was unreachable. Girls are not allowed to go to school after the age of 11, but Malala didn’t. She was in love with learning, and she wants her love to be spread around her country. Malala knows that she is really lucky to have a father that supported her, let her go to school, thinking that Malala can be as powerful as men. She was grateful for this, she stood up and made speeches to people in her country. She didn’t stop fighting after she was shot by the Taliban, in fact after Malala was shot, more and more people supported her.
‘I am Malala. The world has changed but I have not’-Malala Yousafzai.
Something I learned in this unit is that, I have to dig deep to understand the whole meaning of ‘I am Malala.’ This book isn’t just about a girl fighting for human rights, there’s more to that. When I started reading the book, I have to push myself to read it. But after reading some chapters, I started to enjoy the book.
January 22, 2021 at 3:07 pm
I like how you have put a quote from Malala. Your paragraph makes me want to read this book. I should try later!