Title: I am Malala

Author: Malala Yousafzai

Publish year: 8 October 2013

Genre: Biography

“I Am Malala” is a beautiful and inspiring book in which the beautiful and brave Malala narrates the story of her life. The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala is known for her campaign and struggle for the security of girls’ right to education she was able to scale such heights and contribute so much to the betterment of the world because of her courage to stand up and raise her voice against injustices and discrimination.

Malala is a young teen from Swat Valley in Pakistan. She unlike other girls is very lucky and has a very supportive father who owns a school. She was raised peacefully, but the Taliban soon started to take over the area. The Taliban began to like a seed but grew into a giant weed that controlled everything. They eventually made it so girls were not allowed out of the house of the house unless they were accompanied by a male relative one day Malala’s father found a note on the door of his room warning from Taliban him to close the school or else they could do anything to the student.

By this point, Malala has had many interviews and was given a chance to talk against the Taliban. She says that the only thing she wants is for girls to have a right to learn, have a good education, and grow up to learn, have a good education and grow up to be whatever they want to be. She didn’t know that the Taliban was hearing all this. Soon, she became a target of the Taliban who followed her on her way home and shot her right near the brain. Malala declared that she doesn’t remember any of it, the shooting, bleeding, traveling to 4 different hospitals.

Finally, she ended up in Queen Elizabeth' s hospital in Birmingham. Malala couldn’t hear properly, was seeing double, couldn’t close her left eye, couldn’t move her left hand, and whenever she shook her head, she had intense pain. After a long time in the hospital, she was slightly stronger and her sight was much better. The doctors inserted a small hearing device in her ear so she could hear better and she started to live in Birmingham with her family.

After surviving a bullet to the head, months in hospital, and moving to England, Malala became an activist and stood up for girls’ rights and her belief that everyone has the right to go to school.

By: Simrika Poudel (Management, A2)