Overcoming Adversity In I Am Malala

Essential to overcoming adversity is the ability to cause change in yourself and others. In the book I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, Malala has to learn to overcome the problem of the Taliban. This helps her to gain confidence in herself because she had many problems standing up for women's education. Malala changes in the book by instead of being afraid she was bold and daring. Ultimately, Malala portrays that you should stand up for what you believe in. Malala realizes that the first step in fixing the problem is identifying it. Malala notices that the Taliban were very prejudiced about girls and their rights. She starts campaigning for girls rights because of this. This shows that she wanted the world to change so she did something about it. She desires a change and is determined to reach her goal. She shows it in her campaign. Some textual evidence to support this claim is “The future of our country shall never be bright if we do not educate the young generation of girls.”(91-92) More textual evidence is, “I’m not afraid of anyone. I will get my …show more content…
The government backed her up by deciding to be on her side. They decide to help her with her goal: Girls going to school. This means that she reached her goal and she was loved by all the girls who wanted to go to school but were afraid to stand up for their belief. The government is on her side because they realized that she was truly brave and worthy of their help. Some evidence to support this idea is “I even met president Barack Obama and his family... I told him that I did not like his drone strikes on Pakistan, and when they killed one bad person, innocent people are killed too, and terrorism spread more.” TE (190). Malala believed strongly in her cause, and people including her government and the US president help her, and in the US’s case, give her their