Rhetorical Analysis Of Youth Take Over The Un By Malala Yousafzai

Education activist and writer Malala Yousafzai, in her speech, Youth Take Over the UN, expressed the importance of safety that all students should be able to have in school. Yousafzai’s purpose is to spread awareness of the danger girls face in school and the right to education for everyone. She adopts an aggressive, yet informative tone in order to convey the main idea of her writing to the audience at the United Nations. In the speech Yousafzai uses allusion, repetition, and contrast in order to effectively announce her cause. Yousafzai commences her speech by expressing her gratitude to the audience and God. Before arguing her claim she states, “But first of all, thank you to God for whom we are all equal and thank you to every person who

Having thoroughly established her gratitude, Yousafzai argues her cause for education with her full heart. She began to do this by using repetition to convey her argument. In the speech she uses repetition to say “Their right to live in peace”. their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated” (Yousafzai 1), indicating that the rights of those who cannot fight for their own still need to be fought for. Given that she is talking to head educators, this is very important because they too, know that rights to education are being violated everywhere. Given Yousafzai’s goal to make schools safer and more available for everyone, she concludes her speech by imploring the UN to make education available to all. She does this by speaking of those who try to silence them and using contrast. To support education she references that “The wise saying, the pen is mightier than the sword is true” (Yousafzai 2). This is a contrast because the sword is commonly wielded by a mighty knight or soldier, compared to a pen. She goes on to say that “they” are afraid of the voices of