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  • yousafzai, malala. I am Malala. 1st ed. 327. New York: little, brown, 2013. Print.

Culture Vocabulary

I am Malala

Citations

  • the cultural vocabulary gives the reader a good feeling of what her culture is like. honestly at this point I've given up. It's 1 AM and this pointless "It's not what you say it's how you say it" shit is getting on my nerves.

Reading analysis

the story

  • I Am Malala fallows the life of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl living with her family in the Swat valley region.

  • Her Father is a supporter of education, especially for girls.

  • during the book the Taliban takes control over the region and begins enforcing stick muslim law.

  • she and her father continue to fight for education rights.

  • on October 9th, 2012, a Taliban gunman stopped her bus on the way to school, and shot her in the face at point-blank range.

Grammar & Voice

the story cont.

  • throughout the book, she uses a very elegant, sophisticated writing style.
  • it feels as though she is telling a story. throughout it always feels like it is leading somewhere important.
  • her use of grammar and sentence structure gives the book as calm, peaceful feel. creating contrast for when bad things happen.
  • it is all very sedated and long. very few fragments/exclamation marks.
  • she uses lots of compound and compound-complex sentences to give a slower feel to the writing.
  • the book is structured in such a way as to teach you the events that lead up to the shooting.
  • she uses words and phrases from her culture to create a realistic setting.

  • Overall, her voice, grammar, and vocabulary works very well to give the reader a feeling of what it is actually like in her culture, putting the shooting and other events happening in the Middle East into a real context. As well is stressing how important she feels it is that everyone be given a good education, and how doing so would solve so many of the problems in the world.
  • she survived her injuries and moved with her family to the UK. She now lives with her family in Birmingham, England. She has since become a symbol women's rights throughout the world

  • on her sixteenth birthday, she spoke to the UN on education. She was Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, the youngest person in history to ever be nominated.

Video

author's purpose

  • the purpose of this book is clearly to raise awareness for education, especially women's education, around the world.

  • also, she seems to also want to ask to world not to give up on the middle east because she often talks about how friendly people used to be and how calm it was before extremism took over.

  • she also makes an effort to humanize the people of Pakistan.
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