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The young girls chatted with one another as the school bus rattled along the road. They had quite recently completed their term paper and sang to each other in cheerfully voices. Little did they know, that the bus would soon be taken over by two men, where one of them would pull a gun at a girl. “Which one of you is Malala Yousafzai?”. No one spoke, some out of loyalty and others out of fear. Despite that, the eyes unconsciously turned to Malala and within seconds, she was lying wounded at the floor after being shot twice, once in the head and once in the neck.
In this essay, I have chosen to speak about Malala Yousafzai. She is a 21-year-old Pakistani education activist and Nobel Prize winner, who got shot by the Taliban when she was only 15-years-old. The reason I chose to speak about her, is because she represents everything good that can be found in people.
I want to tell you about Malala's steadiness and bravery in facing the Taliban and about her determination in managing the terrible harm she endured that day on the bus returning home from school. This girl has visions that no one has ever had before. She believed and still believes in her right for education and held on to that privilege while turning into an image of rebellion according to the Taliban. Malala’s voice was deemed a threat to the Taliban, when she spoke up for the rights of children to have an education and a childhood. Unfortunately, the Taliban saw schoolgirls death as desirable and justifiable. This shows us how brutal the Taliban are but also demonstrates Malala’s outstanding courage.
The thing that made me choose Malala to talk about, is how despite the dreadful crime that the Taliban committed against her, Malala has not struck back to her attackers in any kind of violent way. Instead, she chose a more diplomatic form of revenge that motivated her even more. At the age of 15, she gave a TED talk to an audience of over 10,000 people about her efforts to attain gender equality and education for women in her home country. At 15 years old, she gave a TED talk to more than 10 000 people about her endeavors to accomplish equality and education for women, especially in her country of origin. Malala’s approach to the attack and way of handling the situation is just amazing. Rather than utilizing violence, she utilized her voice instead. She has shown that words can have tremendous power and a critical effect on the individuals who listen.
The Taliban saw Malala's belief system as radical, but her supporters saw it as revolutionary.
Young girls are not considered to be worthy of a proper education in Pakistan. Regardless of the cynical culture that Malala lived in, her parents raised her in a liberal way, promising her to pursue her fantasies and do what she thought was best for herself. They underlined her likelihood to achieve something great in life to her, while advising her that her sexual orientation shouldn´t be an obstacle in life. That is truly something that is worth bringing up, since her parents made her the person she is today.
Malala is not a hero because she survived a fatal shooting caused by the Taliban. She is not a hero because she won the Nobel Peace Prize. This girl is rather a hero because the represents all the women of the world that are oppressed in the name of religion, misogyny and gender. She is hero because she stood up for what she believed in - the right to have an education.
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