2nd.
Part “ I Am Malala”
Genre
Popular nonfiction Book / Biography.
Static
Character
All minor
character
Dynamic
character
Malala Yousafzai.
Principal Character.
And her father Ziauddin Yousafzai.
This text is written in
first person.
Author’s biographies
About Christina Lamb
She is a
British writer journalist was born in
May 15 1,965, She’s the chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday
Times.
She has a
lot of prizes besides She is an Honorary Fellow of University College Oxford,
she was written 8 books including the bestselling The Africa House, and I Am
Malala, co-written with Malala Yousafzai which was named Popular Nonfiction
Book of the year British Nacional British Awards in 2,013
Malala
Yousafzai
She is an
activist female was born July 12 in 1997 in Pakistan, She´s Nobel Prize
Laureate. She is known for human rights
advocacy. Especially for children and women.
Now she won a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in
London. We can say too much about her
and too many T.V. interviews, but it could be unfinished job her. I will include a trailer of her movie.
Trailer.
This is
the movie as a documental by National Geographic Channel. http://putlocker.io/watch/kvYp5odb-he-named-me-malala.html
Historical background
Malala grow up where be a woman was challenge, because the Taliban think that
woman´s face is a source of corruption for men who are not related to it, that is
why they use purdah.
80% of Afghan
weddings are arranged and made by force.
The Taliban
movement is a group of Muslims who are followers of an
ultra-conservative idealism of Islam, who formed an army and seized power in
most of Afghanistan. It is based on a strict version of Sharia, Islamic law.
ultra-conservative idealism of Islam, who formed an army and seized power in
most of Afghanistan. It is based on a strict version of Sharia, Islamic law.
a Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), 9 summarizes
the Taliban policies on women in these points:
· Since the age of eight, women are not allowed to have direct contact
with men beyond their blood relatives, husband or in-laws.
· Women cannot appear on the street without a blood relative or without
carrying Burka.
· They cannot wear heels because men should not listen to the steps of a woman.
· Women cannot speak out loud in public just as a stranger should not hear
the voice of an unfamiliar woman.
· All windows on ground floors and first floors should be covered or painted
to prevent women from being visible from the outside.
· Photographing or filming women, or making women appear in newspapers,
books, posters or printouts is fined, even inside houses.
· Women are not allowed to appear on the balconies of homes.
· The modification of those names of places that carried the word
woman has been carried out. As an example, the Garden of Women
is called Garden of Spring.
·
The presence of women on radio, television or public events of any kind is not allowed.
This is a
strong video who asks your mail, to watch it, because is too heavy. And is not allowed for teenagers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3uQ0ZRDHg
Analysis
or Connection between literary work and historical background
It is incredible the courage that this girl had, Malala. There was also another
girl whose name was Rawua, she was also killed, because they consider that
any feminist is a threat to them. Even if you paint your fingers, they can be cut.
This law called sharia, really is a violator of human rights, because women
cannot even laugh in public.
This
video will explain you what is a Sharia Law.
Literary movement
Post modern
Country
Swat
Pakistan, and Birminghan, England
Summary
This
book starts with the story of Malala´s father and how the grandfather of her
influences her father to be an eloquent man.
Then about Malala Yousafzai was born in the town of Mingora, Pakistan to
a poor but prominent Muslim family, headed by Ziauddin Yousafzai. Growing up,
Ziauddin encouraged Malala to study literature and rhetoric, and to express
herself freely. From an early age, Malala was conscious of the inferior
position of women in her society: she was especially conscious of the
difference between her mother, Tor Pekai, a woman with no formal education, and
her father, a man with considerable training in writing, poetry, and oration.
At the age of 11, Malala began writing a diary for a BBC blog, thanks to
contacts her father had established. She also made an appearance in a New York Times documentary on life in Pakistan
under the Taliban. Following these two projects, Malala became increasingly
active in the media, in spite of her young age. She gave interviews in which
she criticized the rise of the violent religious extremist group, the Taliban,
in her country. In the fall of 2012, Malala was shot by a Taliban soldier. She
was treated in Pakistani military hospitals, and afterwards, thanks to her
international fame, taken to superior medical facilities in Birmingham,
England. Malala made a full recovery from her bullet wounds, and continued to
actively campaign for women’s rights and education. In 2014, she became the
youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in its 114-year history.
Explain the reasons why you liked it and why you
recommend it.
I have
always believed that, if you can make a better world by including everyone. Think without discrimination, it seems is
like a dream come true.
You may
think I am a dreamer, as Jhon Lenon song said.
But I think this could be possible, in the way all of us take an example
of this such a brave girl, who gave us the example or a model to follow.
She said “One
teacher, one pen, can change the world”.
Since we
think education is in our hands, we will change the reality.
All who
pretend to be a teacher should read this book.
What were your expectations before reading the book?
I thought
that I was going to read just only a biography, but at the end I noticed, was
more than that, because it gave me the curiosity to look for more information. And a appreciate now my vocation. I really love what I do, because as a Teacher
I touch their lives in a positive way.
How do you feel after reading the book?
It makes me feel committed to what I do, it makes me think that each teacher must go beyond their own vocation.
This book
made me feel like a Heroine, challenged because I would like to project myself
in the principal character of the history, I could think If I were Malala, what
would I do? And I respect the right for
the education and more than that, those people who didn´t have the same
opportunities or the level of poverty in the lowest, of course is unfear
because they couldn´t have the same opportunities than the other who have
them. Special those women than men treat like
animals.
Were your
expectations/predictions confirmed?
I never
thought that she could survive with that shoot. It was a miracle. And besides that, I have another perspective
of Muslims people, not all are equals.
Take out of my mind these stereotypes that we think when we talk about
Oriental People.
Add any
other comment to your work, that you feel necessary.
I would
like to know her a have a conference alive.
And is
fantastic that she is a great speaker in English, I admire no just only for the
brave person she is, the great family she has, and how all these environment
they just changed into positivism, to change the reality of the family, and why
there is a fear of Taliban’s , because she was able to put them shake. Only because she doesn´t show them afraid.
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