She Stood When Others Would Have Fallen Imagine you’re riding on a school bus on the way home from school. Then a stranger walks onto your bus and calls your name asking you to step forward, so you do and next thing you know you are shot three times: one in the head, one in the shoulder, and another one just passing by you. This is Malala’s story. In the book “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafazai, Malala writes about her life before she was brutally shot by the Taliban and her recovery afterward. She writes about how her background, which was in full support of education equality, was attacked and how she started a campaign to voice her opinion and chose not to listen to the “nay-sayers” her advised her to quit. Malala took the background of
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The turning point for Malala was: “When we learned she was dead, my heart said to me, Why don’t you go out there and fight for women’s rights? We were looking forward to democracy and now people asked, ‘If Benazir can die, nobody is safe.’It felt as if my country were running out of hope” (Yousafzai 133). Benazir Bhutto was a person of major influence to Malala. She spoke in support of education just like Malala wished to do. She was shot and killed by the Taliban for speaking out and Malala decided that she should be the one to publicly speak in support of woman for her country’s sake. After this event Malala had overheard her father discussing an opportunity to publicize education equality. She went up to her father and said: “‘Why not me?’ I wanted people to know what was happening. ‘Education is our right,’ I said. ‘Just as it is our right to sing and play. Islam has given us this right and that every girl and boy should go to school’” (Yousafzai 154). A girl that was a part of Malala’s school was supposed to form a diary talking about her daily life and her ability to go to school, but because of her parents’ decision she was not allowed to participate. Malala, on the other hand, really wanted to have the opportunity to share her opinion with the world, and so she decides to take the girl’s place. Later on, Malala was sent out of her valley which gave her time to think about ways to grow her campaign. For example: “When we were IDPs I had thought about becoming a politician and now I know that was the right choice. Our country had so many cries but no real leaders to tackle them” (Yousafzai 204). An IDP is an “Internally Displaced Person”. Malala, while evacuated out of Swat, began to think about her position as a possible politician. She wanted to expand her success from just writing journals to
The turning point for Malala was: “When we learned she was dead, my heart said to me, Why don’t you go out there and fight for women’s rights? We were looking forward to democracy and now people asked, ‘If Benazir can die, nobody is safe.’It felt as if my country were running out of hope” (Yousafzai 133). Benazir Bhutto was a person of major influence to Malala. She spoke in support of education just like Malala wished to do. She was shot and killed by the Taliban for speaking out and Malala decided that she should be the one to publicly speak in support of woman for her country’s sake. After this event Malala had overheard her father discussing an opportunity to publicize education equality. She went up to her father and said: “‘Why not me?’ I wanted people to know what was happening. ‘Education is our right,’ I said. ‘Just as it is our right to sing and play. Islam has given us this right and that every girl and boy should go to school’” (Yousafzai 154). A girl that was a part of Malala’s school was supposed to form a diary talking about her daily life and her ability to go to school, but because of her parents’ decision she was not allowed to participate. Malala, on the other hand, really wanted to have the opportunity to share her opinion with the world, and so she decides to take the girl’s place. Later on, Malala was sent out of her valley which gave her time to think about ways to grow her campaign. For example: “When we were IDPs I had thought about becoming a politician and now I know that was the right choice. Our country had so many cries but no real leaders to tackle them” (Yousafzai 204). An IDP is an “Internally Displaced Person”. Malala, while evacuated out of Swat, began to think about her position as a possible politician. She wanted to expand her success from just writing journals to