Around the globe, many live in oppressive governments that deprive them of their basic rights. Malala grew up in Pakistan, where women are unable to get an education, work or even go into public without being accompanied by a male. Malala was one of the exceptions as her father gave her liberty and challenged the traditional ways of the Pakistani culture. Encaved in a patriarchal society, Malala gives personal anecdotes on her coming of age in Pakistan during a time of war and terrorism. Malala gives the audience a deeper understanding of the oppression women experience outside of the United States through descriptive imagery, credible ethos and factual logos. Malala witnessed Pakistan’s shift from a peaceful and lively community to a warzone due to the surge of terrorism and unjust cultural practices with her own eyes and interprets it into her writing. Such as her descriptions of her community in the prologue, “I can hear the neighborhood kids playing cricket in the alley behind our home...I smell rice cooking as my mother works in the kitchen” (Yousafzai, page 1). This utilization of imagery stimulates the reader’s sense of hearing and smell. This effectively strengthens her claims of living a normal life …show more content…
She stated “in the Holy Quran Allah says if you kill one person it is as if you kill the whole humanity” (Yousafzai, Youtube.com). She uses this fact to argue that terrorists misuse the Islamic religion to justify their actions. This creates disbelief through challenging prejudice beliefs about the Islamic religion. Common belief entitles that the terrorism is founded upon enforcing Islamic practices. However, Malala argues that terrorists misuse the name of Islam as they perform acts of terrorism that contradict the writings in their Holy Quran. Therefore, Malala effectively applies logos to defend her religion from misinterpretation and
I Am Malala portrays the tale of the adolescent Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani advocate for education who possesses multifarious titles fluctuating from “Ziauddin’s Daughter” to “The Girl Who Was Shot by The Taliban”! Nevertheless, Yousafzai unconditionally stated in her own writings that “I don 't want to be thought of as ‘The Girl Who Was Shot by The Taliban’ but ‘The Girl Who Fought For Education.’” (Yousafzai, 309). Subsequently, Yousafzai avails her exquisite words to enlighten the public of her aspiration to provide legitimate education for all, rifling through the events from her past, disclosing the sovereignty in a lone voice amidst a mute world. For instance, on Page 186, Chapter 11, Yousafzai ascertained “When the whole world is silent,
No one thought the Taliban would hurt a child but one day a man shot Malala in the head in her school bus while she was coming home from school. Thankfully she survived, and continued to speak out about her the right for girls to have access to an education. After the Taliban started attacking young girls, Malala decided to give a speech. She named her speech, "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Malala did not stand for such cruelty from the Taliban.
"I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children" (Malala, 13). Cultural tradition is evidently a culminating aspect in the formation of societies and a direct consequence on the lifestyle of these families. Malala Yousafzai was born in Pakistan, a society which privileged man, even though since young she was determined to stand against the tradition and live for herself and for her family. In the first quarter of her autobiography, I Am Malala, she relates stories of her ancestors that demonstrates her inner pride which serves as influence to the building of her character. Pride is indeed a common characteristic that human beings share, which is satisfaction for our own achievements.
Malala Yousafzai, being a completely different person that any girl in her country demonstrates the gruesome and savage nature of the men and women in the country of Pakistan. She not only shows the unawareness driven by fright among the people there, but displays how horrid it truly was. Influences of a misinterpretation form of Islam yield the innocent under the hands of the miserable forces of the evil such as the Taliban. Subsequently, the country of Pakistan under Taliban rule has gone through continuous fear and discriminations that strip girls from their education. Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani woman who only wanted an education, was obligated to view her life at its worst and at the same time, view the desire and dreams of girls who fight for their education that they have been denied.
Malala Yousafzai advocates for her beliefs through her persistent pathos to elicit sympathy within the audience and irony to identify a problem the Taliban asserts, but also utilizes rhetorical questions and allusions in order to provoke thought and present a solution against the injustice the Taliban brings, all in efforts to express her primary concern for change against
The book, I Am Malala: How One Girls Stood Up for Education and Changed the World is about a teenage Pakistani girl named Malala Yousafzai. Malala is a moderate Muslim that lived in Swat Valley, until she was shot in 2012. The point of the book is awareness for education for females. The three themes Importance of Education, Fame and the Importance of Role Models, and Courage and Perseverance come up in the book often. Importance of Education is very important because it is all throughout the book and is the main theme.
Now that she’s a well known figure, Malala Yousafzai will not stop advocating the importance of education. Malala utilizes various rhetorical strategies such as pathos, imagery, and juxtaposition to convey her message that education is a basic human right to both men and women. Malala utilizes pathos to evoke emotions towards the audience on reasons why education should be a right. Yousafzai reveals, “Because when a teacher appreciates you, you think, I am something!
Throughout the novel, Malala utilizes influential ethos while talking about how difficult it was for a girl to attend school in peace so that the audience will believe her story. For example, in the novel Malala states “The trips from school became tense and frightening, and I just wanted to relax once I was safe inside my home”. (Yousafzai,pg.62) This quote is included so that the reader will be able to perceive how she and the other girls felt while trying to obtain an education. Also, her purpose of
Rhetorical Analysis Malala is known for her couragous battle to fight for education for the children in her country, but to me i know her for something else. The way she conveyed her message using rhetorical strategies is how i know Malala. She makes the reader experience in his or her mind what it is to live in pakistan. Malala used very good rhetorical strategies to convey her message and to inspire many around the world, including me.
I Am Malala Rhetorical Analysis The novel “I Am Malala“ by Malala Yousafzai is the story of how she grew up and what lead her to fight for education and end up having a near death experience when getting shot by the Taliban. Malala’s main goal is for every child to have an education. Moreover,she was able to show the audience why everyone deserves an education by using ethos to develop her credibility for the cause,repetition to emphasize the need for a change,and powerful diction to describe the lives of those deprived of an education,her religion, and the Taliban. Using these rhetorical devices she was able to show the audience that every child should get an education.
Malala Yousafzai lived in fear because of the terrorists that threaten her country but now she fights for youths. Yousafzai believes that all youths should have educations which she addresses in her speech. Yousafzai also believes that giving education to youths will fight against terrorists. Yousafzai fights for women and children’s rights and throughout her speech she discourses this. Yousafzai’s United Nations speech shows the rhetorical methods of Logos, Ethos, and
Malala emphasizes her opinions and what she feels is right with her word choice. Another instance in which Malala portrayed parallelism is, “...because
In her memoir I am Malala, explains the hardships she had to endure before and after she was shot by the taliban even though all she did was stand up for education. In the memoir, Malala illustrates that her father always treated women fair. There was no difference between men and women other than the roles they adopted in their culture. Malala’s father set a solid foundation of equality very early in Malala’s life. This foundation is the reason why Malala has traveled around the world emphasizing the need for equal education.
Malala Yousafzai, along with the help of her friends, family and millions of people across the globe, stresses the importance of speaking up about what you believe in. Malala utilizes
Yousafzai first started to speak up for her rights when a mafti wanted her father’s school to close. The mafti had tried to close the school because the school allowed girls to go to school and because he considered it “a disgrace to the community”(Yousafzai 90) Malala Yousafzai was afraid that once she spoke out, she would be silenced by the Taliban just like how the mafti had tried to close her father’s school down. Even though Yousafzai was doubting herself, she continued to fight for