Bloody Sunday And I Am Malala

I Am Malala was written by Malala Yousafzai about her first fifteen years spent in Pakistan. She focuses on topics such as education, women’s rights, and the conflict brought to her country by the Taliban. U2 wrote “Sunday Bloody Sunday” to express the internal strife of Ireland’s citizens after the 1972 Bloody Sunday. I Am Malala and “Sunday Bloody Sunday” are publically loves and critically acclaimed works. They were written about different topics; yet both discuss the internal horrors of war, war’s impact on families, and a major power’s control to mar rebellion of the masses. Similarities in both works point towards an underlying passive rebellion theme. Both works, in different ways, discuss similar themes in their lyrics and chapters.

However, I Am Malala and “Sunday Bloody Sunday” deal with the internal conflicts of war and conflict. These works focus more on how a country is affected, physically and psychologically, by conflict. Both often focus of the aftermath of conflict, rather than the conflict itself. Even though the works have similar themes, they are written about different conflicts. I Am Malala was written while the Taliban was attempting to take Pakistan, “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was written about the 1972 Bloody Sunday. Malala writes, “As we drove through villages we saw buildings in ruins and burned-out vehicles…. The army and Taliban had fought street to street and almost everything was pockmarked with bullet holes…. We had never seen our city like this” (Yousafzai 189-190). Parts of the book, such as this quote, really show how the Taliban damaged people’s homes and lives. Malala later goes on to write how devastated her family was after they returned to find their home in shambles. These kind of scenes show the internal malefactors or war, and how the aftereffects can be as horrifying as the conflict itself. Edge writes, “Broken bottles under children’s feet/Bodies strewn across the dead end street” (U2 9-10). Lyrics like these are written specifically to draw sympathy from listeners. Using strong imagery, Edge wrote lines that would appeal to a listener 's emotional, or even empathetic, side. When doing this, he also shows the internal aftermath of the 1972 Bloody Sunday incident. Edge uses, children and imagery of one’s own town reduced to a war zone, to really capture Ireland’s internal strife. I Am Malala and “Sunday Bloody Sunday” both deal with a country’s internal struggle during conflict, and the aftermaths of