I Am Malala Sparknotes

“I am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai is a memoir about and by the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Yousafzai starts the book with the first day of school, bus ride home. Malala thinks about her hometown of Mingora, Pakistan has changed and how the Taliban is still a growing. Malala’s father, Ziauddin was an advocate for free speech, education, and women’s rights. This is what made Malala so passionate about everything that the Taliban was against. On the way, the bus suddenly stops and men get on the bus. She is not wearing her burqa and is identified and shot point-blank in the head. The story then flashes back to her entire life before them including her family life, her passions, beliefs and overall how she views life and her standpoint in her family, the government and her country. The story then flashes forward to after the shooting. Malala is rushed to a military hospital where Colonel Junaid, tries to save her life with a difficult brain surgery. It is at first seems like she is making a full recovery until they realize that the utilities and services they have at the military

Towards the end of the book the recurring idea that you are lucky to be alive and loved is very thought upon. She reminds us that we are lucky for what we have. Whether that is because we have education, a loving family, our needs our taken care of etc. Whatever we have is important and we should be very grateful for what we do have. She also teaches us to stand up for our beliefs and what we believe in. This almost gets her killed, but in the end, the world has changed because of her and she has been a very positive step in the right direction for women and children’s rights but also education. Although this is something she struggles with because of the extremist Taliban, she never gives up and it eventually pays off even if she did have to go through the roughest of things to get to where she is