I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai has been an activist for girls' and women's education and rights since her preteen years. Inspired by her father, she spoke out against how the Taliban restricted education and...

Malala is from a small, lower middle-class family, with two parents and two younger siblings, both boys (Khushal and Atal). A small family is unusual at the time, with most families in this area...

The themes of family and community are clearly seen in I Am Malala in the way Malala describes her relationship with her parents and siblings as well as her love for her home in the Swat Valley....

Malala's paternal grandfather is Rohul Amin. She tells us that his name means "honest spirit," and Rohul is just that—a vociferous man who voices his opinions without fear. Rohul is also an...

After Malala has had numerous surgeries and has recovered sufficiently to leave the hospital, she and her family stay in Birmingham, England. The family moves first into an apartment and then a...

I thought that words and books and pens are more powerful than guns. The quote comes from Diane Sawyer’s October 10, 2013 interview with Malala Yousafzai, a young girl from Pakistan’s Swat Valley...

The biggest technique I can think of that accomplishes both of these tasks is personal anecdote. Through personal anecdotes, Malala gives readers an intimate look into her life. This both expresses...

In her critically acclaimed autobiography I Am Malala (full title: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban), Malala Yousafzai uncovers that she was...

The text tells us that Malala didn't like going to the dump. Essentially, the dump was an abandoned piece of land used as an informal dumping ground. Since the village of Swat offered no trash...

Malala Yousafzai organizes her memoir into five major sections, but there is also a Prologue that plays a significant role in the story. The Prologue is an overview of the book and presents the...

Malala's words foreshadow the terrible events of the following day. One night she starts wondering about death and what it's really like. She prays to Allah and asks him what happens when you die...

The preface (“Birmingham, England, June 2015”) introduces the subject of the book and establishes the continued importance of Malala's work through the Malala Fund. In contrast, the prologue...

In her passionate belief in the power of education, Malala takes after her father, Ziauddin. He studied literature and rhetoric for many years, managing in the process to overcome a severe stammer...

During the course of the narrative in the autobiography I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Malala does go through a profound change that has to do with the maturation of her ideals. In the beginning...

Malala's memoir indicates that her passion for education, and pursuit of women's right to education specifically, was influenced by both her mother and father. Malala expresses the insecurity her...

The prologue of the memoir I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai is entitled “The Day My World Changed.” This is an immediate indication that something significant and life-altering is going to happen to...

You'll find this answer within chapter 20. The death threat is discovered when a Pakistani journalist from Alaska comes to meet Malala and her father. The journalist speaks to Malala's father, and...

Malala is from Swat Valley in Pakistan, and she is ethnically Pashtun. Traditionally, the Pashtun have lived by the Pashtunwali code for many centuries, as Malala mentions. The code calls for...

Malala Yousafzai, in her book, I am Malala writes about her experiences growing up, with a keen emphasis on the role played by gender in her society. In chapter 4 of the book, the village life is...

Both Malala and her mother enjoy helping others. In the book, Malala reveals that her mother, Toor Pekai, is practical in nature. She writes that her mother was "always out helping people." Toor...

In the book, Maulana Fazlullah is a Taliban leader. He gained public support using charisma and public speeches that essentially presented him as a man of the people who wanted to help better...

I am Malala is the autobiography of Malala Yousafzai, a young girl from Pakistan. It was first published in 2013, and it deals with Malala’s fight to be able to receive a proper education in...

In chapter 1, Malala says that the Pashtunwali code is something that the Afghan people have lived by "for centuries." She says that this code "obliges us to give hospitality to all guests." She...

When Malala became a prominent figure in the fight against extremism, she was targeted and shot by a Taliban gunman. Her injuries were severe, and Malala credits Colonel Junaid, a surgeon working...

In the autobiography I Am Malala, the author writes of her love for education despite the efforts of Islamic radicals to ban girls and women from schools. At an early age, Malala becomes an...

The Gender Inequality Index ranks Pakistan a lowly 150th out of 160 participating countries. The United States is ranked thirteenth, so the status of women varies enormously between the two...

In her autobiography, I Am Malala, young Malala Yousafzai describes her upbringing, family values, and Pashtuni culture in Pakistan. The events of her life take place in the backdrop of Islamic...

Malala Yousafzai inherited a great deal of her progressive values from her father, the social activist and school founder Ziauddin Yousafzai. An outspoken critic of both the Taliban and militant...

Malala Yousafzai is a 21-year-old Pakistani activist and co-author of I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Malala is known primarily for her...

Among the Pashtuns, the ethnic group into which Malala is born, there's a huge difference between how people regard the birth of a boy and the birth of a girl. As Malala tells us, rifles are fired...

In order to provide an exact page number, it is necessary to know which edition of the book you are reading. It's also helpful to know if you are looking in the full text or the young reader...

In I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai details the Taliban’s deadly, violent actions against the people in her community. The Taliban tried to force girls, boys, and adults in general to do many things....

In the book, the mufti Ghulamullah was displeased when Malala's father opened the Khushal School for girls. Ghulamullah belonged to a conservative Sunni Muslim sect called Deobandi. The Deobandis...

The girls at the radical Red Mosque are taught nothing but a literalist interpretation of Islam. They have been brainwashed into believing that the Taliban are heroes, bravely standing up to what...

Chapter 9 of I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai is entitled “Radio Mullah,” and it describes the arrival of the Taliban to the Swat Valley where ten-year-old Malala lives: It seemed to us that the...

The first thing Malala's father did that made his own father smile was win first prize at a public speaking competition. In the book, Ziauddin tells Malala that he found it difficult to please...

Most of Malala Yousafzai's memoir, I Am Malala, focuses on her determination to get an education despite the strict laws and threats of the Taliban. In Malala's native Pakistan and nearby countries...

In I am Malala, the author defines terrorism from the perspectives of both terrorist and victim. For the terrorist, terrorism is the use of fear to control others. Although Yousafzai does...

In chapter 10, Malala describes how the Red Mosque madrasa was surrounded by “tanks and armored personnel carriers.” The mosque, being in Islamabad, run by Abdul Aziz and his brother, Abdul Rashid,...

Malala Yousafzai's main message in her memoir I Am Malala stresses the importance of education for young girls. She speaks out against the way the Taliban restricts women's lives, particularly in...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is a memoir written by Pakistani activist and youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai with British...

Malala was born in 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. Pakistan was a very heavily patriarchal country at the time, especially as the Taliban kept playing an increasingly important role on the country's...

Malala Yousafzai is a Nobel Prize laureate for her activism regarding the rights of all children to have access to education. She is twenty years old and was born and grew up in the Swat region of...

During her convalescence at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Malala has been working hard at the gym and with a physiotherapist to get her arms and legs working properly again. As a reward for all the...

The cover of Malala's autobiography reads I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban. That, in a nutshell, tells us what Malala's views on education...

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