I Am Malala

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Malala Yousafzai endured and adaged many challenges,but throughout the story “I Am Malala” she testifies to how the women in her country are being treated. However, she not only testifies on the problems that has been encountered upon her, in a non-violence way Malala word subsequently became influential to the people in her country during the time the Taliban attacked Pakistan. All throughout Malala’s story she devises her purpose in a rhetorical way. Referring back to a time Malala shows how she felt about her country still living in the past. “This is not the Stone Age period. But it feels like we are going backward. Girls are getting more deprived of our rights.”(Yousafzai pg.71) Malala expresses her opinion in relating back to a time where women did not acquire rights. She felt that if we have overcome the time where women were being restricted ,then why are we still fraughting to remain in the past? Although, in a convincing way Malala spoke to question what others were doing and her words also had emotion behind it. “I felt as if the wind would carry …show more content…
We can’t stop now.”(Yousafzai pg 119) She knew from her dad's words that when Newton said “For every action there is an equal opposite reaction” that he had some truth to what he was saying. She had needed to comprehend that not everyone will be with her and it will be those who did not agree with what she was saying. If it was those who targeted her it was her goal to get across to them how much education mattered. She was not looking at the people who wanted to shoot her and instead she wanted to just get across all over. Her purpose was to make people understand how not everyone is granted the right to be educated and how wrong it was to

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