I Am Malala

“I Am Malala” is a breathtaking novel based on a true story of a young sixteen-year-old girl’s life. This memoir written by Malala Yousafzai and co-written by Christina Lamb was published in October 2013 by ‘Little, Brown and Company’ and has become a very popular novel all around the world. This book contains 265 pages and costs Indian Rs. 399 and I found it worth reading. This courageous young girl wrote this book fearlessly to spread the awareness about the rights of education for those who are being ignored and abandoned from their right to go the school and learn.
The journey taken by Malala Youzafzai was not an easy one. She was born to an illiterate mother and a hardworking father in the beautiful valley of Swat in Pakistan. She stood up for the right of education for the fellow young girls in Pakistan with full determination and spirit and fought against the Taliban. Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, an education activist was her greatest inspiration and motivated her to stand up as an advocate for education and freedom.
Unlike other Pakistani girls, Malala was not fearful of covering her head with a scarf rather than putting on a burqa. She did not believe in hiding the girls and women behind the curtains and seizing their rights of education and freedom. The Taliban prohibited Pakistani people from listening to music, watching television, women going for shopping, laughing and chatting and most importantly they banned education for girls. Malala bravely stood up for their rights. She started blogging, writing and speaking against Taliban’s inhuman activity.

Carrying a bullet shot by the Taliban while coming back from an examination in her school bus, she struggled to hold on with her vulnerable life but with all the support she got from the whole world she destined to live. Fortunately, two renowned doctors from England happened to be in Pakistan. They were like two angels sent by the God to help out Malala hold on to her precious life. Dr. Fiona Reynolds and Dr. Javid Kayani assisted her throughout her Herculeous journey to this miraculous recovery in the Birmingham hospital.
After her recovery she still grows stronger and stronger with the support of the whole world. With an ambition of becoming a politician she wants to make a change for good in her beloved Swat valley, her motherland Pakistan and the whole world. Many great people have honored Malala and her daring deeds with the National Peace Prize in Pakistan, International Children’s Peace Prize and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also shortlisted for the Time Magazine’s Person of the year and was awarded with several other honorary awards.
To commemorate Malala and other millions of Malalas the United Nations have declared November 10 as ‘Malala Day’. This novel reflects the story of millions of young girls who are neglected from their rights and freedom. Malala has tried her best to aware and inspire those girls to raise their voice and fight for their rights. Malala is the young activist who is known around the world as ‘the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban’.