Malal How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World

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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood up for Education and Changed the world, by Malala Yousafzai, a memoir about a young girl who strives to stand up and speak out for girls’ education and rights. Through writing, Malala demonstrates that words are more effective than brutality. Her writing uncovers a youthful viewpoint, a female viewpoint, and a young intelligent students’ viewpoint. Violence cannot reveal these points of view. In the book Malala
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Malala begins to realize that if she wrote, that words are more powerful to her people. When someone writes, you get to see what the writer thinks about the situation or a better understanding. The book tells the reader how most of Malala’s people, friends, family members, and the world reacted to her writings, and how her writings made them realize what was actually going on, but in her perspective. Malala states that ‘And we felt a responsibility to stand up for our homeland.
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Malala explains why she thinks it would be a bad idea to not be educated, and why education is so important. Malala states. In this part of the text, Yousafzai is explaining why she wants to go to school. She also explains how she shouldn’t be afraid to go to school and of the Taliban, and that no even if the Taliban continues to say and do things, she is still gonna try to get her education. [Clincher]
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The Taliban continues to attack Pakistan, but Malala continues to believe that school is more important. In connection to this Malala states “In the Khushal School the students are mainly taught and educated on the problems in society and society itself. This causes them to question and critique society and the Taliban. Malala states in confusion toward the Taliban ‘What have I done wrong that I should be afraid? All I want to do is go to school. And that is not a crime. That is my right.’ ( Yousafzai 53

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