I Am Malala Essay

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An autobiography is a genre of writing that allows writers to tell others about their life in a way that can become intensely personal. Writers tell stories of their life that are filled with joy and love but also stories of terror and darkness. Readers get to see these events that occured within the person’s life and get to know them on a personal level, due to the depth of their stories. A 15 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai wrote an autobiography called “I am Malala”. Within it she shared the love and fear she felt in her hometown of Swat, Pakistan. At 15 she was targeted by the Taliban and shot while on a school bus because of her campaign for girls education. Through all her troubles in Swat, she had her family as well as her religion …show more content…

Throughout the book, she mentions numerous ways in which the women in her country are treated differently. For starters, women are often traded to settle feuds between families and get married as young as 13 like the girl who was in Malala’s class. Education is also a place were girls are treated unfairly. Many girls are taken out of school by male family members and many do not go to school at all. Malala’s own mother dropped out of school at age six. Also, after the age of 13 a girl has to be accompanied by male family member and when girls are born they are not celebrated but the males are. Lastly, girls have to cover themselves up and males do not. Malala never understands why the religious men in her community do not want girls to be educated. Education means everything to Malala and she craves learning about new things. Her father is very supportive of her and allows her to go to school but she sees so many girls who are not as lucky as she is. The main reason why Malala began to speak for girls education was to be the voice for others who are silenced. She started doing interviews for radio/TV stations and even started an anonymous journal where she talked about her as a girl living in the patriarchal Swat. As her popularity grew she gave speeches all over begging for action to let girls receive the same education as boys do. Due to this, her fight for girls education became a huge part of her

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