I Am Malala Book Report

“I Am Malala” Book Report

“I am Malala” is a book written by Malala Yousafzai. The cover of her book is like that of any other autobiography, a photo of the author, the title of the book, and some cliche quote or phrase that attempts to grasp the essence of the publication. The phrase branded across the bottom center of the cover states “The girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban”. The phrase implies that this book will be only be about her fight for education, and heinous assault, when in reality it entails so much more. Malala’s purpose for writing this was not to give a detailed account of her misfortune, but to give a detailed account of where she comes from, who she is, and her people. She succeeds in all of these reports, as she always writes about real life situations from her perspective, without being swayed by outside forces. Malala also uses dialogue to shape the reader’s perspective into one similar of her own, as well as foreshadow future events.

She starts off her story with “I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.” (3). This sentence is significant as it’s dark poetic nature hints at a struggle within her community. She is stating that her country was created during dark times, and remnants of it’s atrocities continues to haunt it. This specific line has inspired my own work. In the beginning of one of poems I state “Knowledge of my creation branches only from slave ships.”. Malala and I are both honest about our origin, and we both attempt to notion a conflict of self. I found that Malala and I share a confusion with the truths that are stated in general, and the truths that are relevant to us. I have written another poem named “The black woman is the nigger of the world”. Throughout the ballad I define every term with dictionary definitions, and synonyms. I found that each definition held heinous, but every synonym bared strength. It was as if I was being told that I was less but, shown that I was more. Malala captures the same confusion when she tries to distract herself from thoughts of the Taliban by reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time”. She states that the book answers major astrological questions in which changed the world of science, then goes on to say “We Pashtuns know the stone of revenge never decays, and when you do something wrong you will face the music. But when would that be we continuously ask ourselves”. She is inquiring on how humans can