Papers On I Am Malala Yousafzai

When the Taliban took over Swat Valley in Pakistan, a girl spoke out against them. She refused to be silenced and fought for all her rights. On Tuesday, October 9th, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, her miraculous recovery has taken her on a journey from a rural village in Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. In recognition of her bravery and activism, she was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize and shortlisted for the Time Magazine Person of the Year. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest woman to ever get the Nobel Peace Prize.
I Am Malala is the tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who encouraged his
daughter to write and attend school even in a society that restricts woman, and of a brave family who supports and is proud of their daughter, even in a society that prizes sons. The four main topics distributed around I Am Malala is Selflessness, the Importance of Education, Women's Rights, and Islam and its Interpretations. These subjects can connect greatly to real life, which will help students learn and benefit them by teaching them topics that can connect and help them in real life.
Malala Yousafzai has become almost universally popular for her selfless devotion to helping the people of her country. She’s the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and there are even those who think of her as incapable of doing any wrong. Yet, in I Am Malala, Malala doesn’t try to pretend that she’s perfect, yet she claims to maintain a standard of good behavior that almost any other human being would find impossible. She includes plenty of anecdotes about bickering with her siblings and parents, getting in fights with her friends—basically, a normal teenager. In some chapters, she has even included her sins, and how they have helped her improve her moral. The overall effect of these chapters is dizzying. Malala seems incredibly “good,” and yet it’s made clear that she wasn’t born this way. Instead, she chooses to be moral—a choice of which, she implies, we’re all capable of. This subject helps students mature into a growth mindset, showing them that they have to choose to be kind and selfless like Malala did. This topic also connects with the real world, if everyone had 25% of Malala’s goodness, the world would be a better place, with more advocacy and more awareness of true issues.
From the first scene all the way to the final chapter, I Am Malala celebrates the importance of education. It could be said that education decides the way Malala comes of age: the more she learns, the more she recognizes the value of learning, and the more she can promote learning. Education empowers people, not only by giving them the knowledge that they can use to improve with but by encouraging them to have confidence in themselves. This can help students understand that the education they are receiving is a privilege and something that many other children want. The topic is very important to reality, where many children, girls and boys, aren’t getting the education they deserve.
The central idea of I Am Malala—even more important than the power of education—is the subject of women’s equality.
Malala Yousafzai is passionate about the rights of the genders, and this topic comes up very commonly in her memoir. Women have had a complex role in Pakistani history. Malala is a Pashtun, a tribe that traditionally confines women to the domestic world, and even “trades” women as if they’re objects. Still, the greatest idol of the Pashtuns is Malala’s namesake, Malalai, the courageous young woman who led the Pashtuns to victory against the British Empire. Since the founding of Pakistan following World War II, women have continued to play a conflicted role in their region’s history. They’re informally discouraged from pursuing an education, and when the Taliban invaded Swat Valley, there were many supporters that betrayed even their own family. This topic can relate to the real world because even in developed countries, there is still blatant sexism and underestimation of the genders. This can help kids mature and comprehend why everybody should have fair rights and how they must react to get
them.
Malala makes it clear that she is a devout Muslim. Still, it’s important to comprehend some of the differences of Islam to understand the stakes of the conflict between Malala and her opponents. While Malala is steadfast in her Islamic faith and her love for Allah, her moral beliefs lead her to clash with the Taliban. The Taliban believe that the Quran dictates that women should live their lives by retreating from the ‘public sphere’—in other words, they should cover themselves in public, and refrain from attending school and seeking education. Malala disagrees with the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam. She believes that one can be a woman, be educated, walk in public without a veil, and still be a loyal Muslim. In a sense, I Am Malala is about the long and sometimes violent clash between Malala’s religious beliefs and those of the Taliban. The Taliban treat Malala as an enemy not only because of her particular interpretation of the faith, but the group is furious that a woman would dare to interpret the Quran in the first place. This could help someone understand that in reality, being Muslim doesn’t mean you’re a terrorist. This stereotype is surprisingly very common in the world today and a new generation that comprehend could help demolish the label.
All in all, I Am Malala is an insightfully true story about one of the most famous teenagers in the world. Malala’s fame and advocacy has spread throughout the world, and her memoir will help children understand her fame and why it’s relatable to real life. The differences between religion and terrorism, the significance of education, gender equality and Malala’s moral excellence throughout the novel will benefit student’s lives. These four main topics will also help students discover other important life lessons strewn throughout other novels and in reality.