A Rhetorical Analysis Of Malala Yousafzai's Speech
Heroes become heroes when they are treated like such, this treatment comes to a being when they prove they are worthy through their actions. Pakistani Activist for youth education, Malala Yousafzai, in her speech to the UN Youth Takeover, reflects her time as an activist and confronts the issues with the Taliban and how it has affected the rights of many people. Yousafzai’s purpose is to show that people are struggling to achieve their goals in peace, education, and equality. She accumulates a tenacious, compassionate, gallant, and formal tone to display that even though she is risking her life by standing up for students and women everywhere, she pays no mind because she is hopeful that one day the world will live in unity and peace.
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Yousafzai uses logos in this argument, “Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way, when we were in Swat, the north of Pakistan, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw guns.”Light and Darkness paired together to make a point is an example of antithesis. The diction chosen by Yousafzai has a clean, complex, and double logic that becomes enhanced by the contrast between the two antonyms. Yousafzai uses this to lead into the analogy, “...The pen is mightier than the sword… The extremists are afraid of pens and books… education frightens them.” The audience is able to further understand the point being made by Yousafzai. She uses a common analogy that people know, and when people can relate to something, they begin to have a better understanding of the topic. The final point that is made in her argument that ties the logos together is when Yousafzai states, “And I remember that there was a boy in our school who was asked by a journalist: ‘Why are the Taliban against education?’ He answered very simply by pointing to his book, he said: ‘A Talib doesn’t know what it written inside this book.” As a whole the diction in this section has a exponential complexity. It impacts
Yousafzai uses logos in this argument, “Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way, when we were in Swat, the north of Pakistan, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw guns.”Light and Darkness paired together to make a point is an example of antithesis. The diction chosen by Yousafzai has a clean, complex, and double logic that becomes enhanced by the contrast between the two antonyms. Yousafzai uses this to lead into the analogy, “...The pen is mightier than the sword… The extremists are afraid of pens and books… education frightens them.” The audience is able to further understand the point being made by Yousafzai. She uses a common analogy that people know, and when people can relate to something, they begin to have a better understanding of the topic. The final point that is made in her argument that ties the logos together is when Yousafzai states, “And I remember that there was a boy in our school who was asked by a journalist: ‘Why are the Taliban against education?’ He answered very simply by pointing to his book, he said: ‘A Talib doesn’t know what it written inside this book.” As a whole the diction in this section has a exponential complexity. It impacts