Connections: A Personal Connection I Made with the Book “i Am Malala” by Malala

Arsh Tiku

9/5/11

I Am Malala

Connections: A personal connection I made with the book “I am Malala” by Malala

Yousafzai is that how Malala fought with the Taliban which was probably the biggest terrorist group of that time so she and girls like her could attend school who were forbidden to by the Taliban. In comparison to kids like us who are living in the United States and take things like school for granted and whine about it instead of being grateful about the free education that we are receiving. Another connection that I made was that how devastated not just Massachusetts but the whole United States was during the Boston bombings. In similarity, Swat experienced a lot terrorist attacks from the Taliban.  An additional connection I had was that how Malala would fight with her brother Khushal and Atul over the smallest things. At home I have a younger sister and I can relate to this because we fight over a lot of things too. I could connect Malala to Romeo from “Romeo and Juliet” because both Malala and Romeo start out as innocent character but in the end Malala fights with the Taliban for girl’s education and Romeo kills Tybalt and Paris. The shooting of the school bus of which Malala was in could be relatable to Sandy Hook shooting even though Sandy Hook had actual fatalities both attacks were towards school students.

Discussion Questions: 1. Does education cure all problems? 2. How is that perspective the same or different than how we, in America, view education? 3. How do we determine what news is valuable to listen to and what news isn’t? 4. Is education worth dying for? 5. Why is the Taliban scared of girls getting educated? 6. How would it feel to be exiled from the land you spent most of your childhood in? 7. How could we compare women’s rights in Pakistan to women’s rights in the United States? 8. Why won’t the Taliban let the people of Pakistan progress? 9. Could Swat be considered a monarchy? 10. If Pakistan’s people were well educated how would the country look like?