Malala Yousafzai's I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is a book about the struggle to obtain an education in the deeply corrupted Pakistan state, where radical Islamic extremists oppress people who disagree with them. Inspired by her father, who was passionate about founding his own school, Malala at a very young age took to promoting the cause of education with her father's help. She would read the classical works of literature by Tolstoy and Jane Austen and write a blog for the BBC describing what it was like to grow up in Pakistan under the Taliban and be a girl seeking an education. This paper will describe the book's main point, the major problem that Malala faced in her country, and my own personal evaluation of the book.
Malala's book is a personal look into the nightmare world that is life in Pakistan under Taliban rule -- but it is also an inspirational message about how someone who is courageous and has the courage of her convictions can stand up to an oppressive regime and even face death by its hand -- as Malala does.
The main problem of the book is that Malala opposes the Taliban's desire to see girls be subservient to their role and to take submissive and passive roles in society in general. Malala wants to be an educated woman because she believes in the power of education -- that it can liberate individuals and free them from oppressive ways of thinking as well as the environments that proceed from those thought processes. Malala stands for a type of revolution that...
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