Played 200 times. His face would redden and he would throw kettles and pots around. Then we would put make-up on her face that wed taken from our mothers, dip her hands in hot limestone and soda to make them white, and paint her nails red with henna. Wait for the download to start automatically. Nearby there were boys fishing in the pile for metal using magnets on strings. The Americans became friends with us once again, as in those days Russia was their main enemy. To try to get people at home to support him, General Zia launched a campaign of Islamisation to make us a proper Muslim country with the army as the defenders of our countrys ideological as well as geographical frontiers. For a while my father did this but stopped when he realised that although a falcon flies high it is a cruel bird. It has hotels, colleges, a golf course and a famous bazaar for buying our traditional embroidery, gemstones and anything you can think of. Then as evening came it fell in shadow as the sun moved up the Black Mountain. Quickly, it became a rubbish mountain. Interested in the book study guide? One day my brothers were not home and my mother had asked me to throw away some potato peel and eggshells. On some shelves were all the gold-coloured plastic cups and trophies I had won for coming first in my class. I slept with my cousins Aneesa and Sumbul in a room which had a clock in the shape of a mosque and a cabinet on the wall containing a rifle and some packets of hair dye. Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the programme, complained that trying to organise them was like weighing frogs. 424 0 obj <>stream Whenever he saw me he would greet me with a song as he was still concerned about the sad meaning of my name and wanted to lend some happiness to it: Malala Maiwand wala da. It might have changed the whole world but we were living right in the epicentre of everything. Some of the richer parents took their children out of the school when they realised they were sharing classrooms with the sons and daughters of people who cleaned their houses or stitched their clothes. Back then, they said, the mountains were all still covered in trees, there were schools every five kilometres and the wali sahib would visit them in person to resolve problems. }. Thats how we think of each other. A. At the age of 11, Malala began writing a diary for a BBC blog, thanks to contacts her father had established. There are also 3 text-dependent questions that require more in-depth analysis. We lived in Mingora, the biggest town in the valley, in fact the only city. People would see us and say we are a sweet family. Then they disappeared off to Islamabad if they were elected to the National Assembly, or Peshawar for the Provincial Assembly, and wed hear no more of them or their promises. Many ISI officers were close to its leaders, having known them for years, and shared some of their beliefs. In my grandfathers Friday addresses he would talk about the poor and the landowners and how true Islam is against feudalism. Includes a key as well as page numbers for each answer from the hardback edition of her work! Malala was a lucky girl, says Hidayatullah. They used the big hall in the mosque, where they taught more than a hundred children ranging from five to fifteen years old. Thanks so much for your purchase!!!! The birds loved that tree. Every year Shias commemorate the killing of the Prophets grandson Hussein Ibn Ali at the battle of Karbala in the year 680 with a festival called Muharram. Your email address will not be published. It was published on 8 October 2013, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little, Brown and Company in the US. Required fields are marked *. This maulana is starting a campaign against you, he warned. or Stand at ease! and we clicked our heels and responded, Allah. Then she said, Hoo she yar! or Attention! and we clicked our heels again. In olden times Swat was called Uddyana, which means garden. This unit can be used to teach the novel as an entire class, in literature circles or individually. Let them be illiterate. It is often said that teachers dont like to be posted to such remote schools and generally make a deal with their colleagues so that only one of them has to go to work each day. But my country is centuries behind this one. Am I in an office or am I in a police station or a court? o'EuJ,0PF@oQo?>"K. Why dont you come and live with us? asked Nasir Pacha. They lavished praise on him. My mother said it was hard for the poor children to learn when they were not getting enough food at home so some of the girls would come to our house for breakfast. Instead they used the buildings for their hujras or even to keep their animals. Everyone thinks they can open a school just like that! The other people in the office laughed along, ridiculing him. Instead I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley. Every day his fellow activists came to the shack or the school for lunch. Everyone had to leave the district. But I dont think you would be happy if you saw the children on my road living on a rubbish dump. Overlooking the river were tourist restaurants with big glass windows we had never been to. Looking to download I Am Malala Free PDF? If anyone offended him, their entire family could be expelled from Swat. This is a comprehensive test for the young reader's edition of Malala Yousafzai's autobiography, I am Malala. Nevertheless, the book is clearly related to other memoirs about periods of crisis. hbbd``b`aN@/ $@, $$| There are many stories that Lord Buddha himself came here because it is a place of such peace, and some of his ashes are said to be buried in the valley in a giant stupa. My grandfather had a different dream for his youngest son he longed for him to be a doctor and as one of just two sons, he expected him to contribute to the household budget. So when the DCs came from Pakistan, they were the new kings and no one questioned them. Then he took some gur, dark molasses made from sugar cane, and rolled it around his mouth to moisten it with spit. I was the only girl with my face not covered. But then I felt guilty as I knew we were lucky. It wasnt the first time. She says he didnt even notice, as he would set off early every morning after a breakfast of cornbread and cream, his German pistol strapped under his arm, and spend his days busy with local politics or resolving feuds. Our people often quote the famous speech he made a few days before independence: You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. This item was made using Google Forms. Unfortunately not many people were convinced. I am representing good Muslims and we all think your girls school is haram and a blasphemy. I assumed women could give birth without going to hospital, as my mother and my sisters had in the village. We would get into two groups, each supposed to be a family, then each family would have to betroth a girl so we could perform a marriage ceremony. In 1949, two years after the creation of Pakistan, he abdicated in favour of his elder son Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb. His beloved mother had died just before he graduated from school. In my dreams about the shooting my father is also in the bus and he is shot with me, and then there are men everywhere and I am searching for my father. If you do not fall in the battle of Maiwand then, by God, someone is saving you as a symbol of shame. Malalai was killed under fire, but her words and bravery inspired the men to turn the battle around. Aside from corruption and bad government, my fathers main concern in those days was the environment. Lincoln also wrote in the letter to his sons teacher, Teach him how to gracefully lose. I was used to coming top of my class. I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each other, none of their governments ever completing a term and always accusing each other of corruption. Only Shahpur had a clinic, and if anyone fell ill in the other villages they had to be carried there by their relatives on a wooden frame which we jokingly called the Shangla Ambulance. I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up For Education An is affable in our digital library an online entrance to it is set as public appropriately you can download it instantly. There was also a shed with a wooden waterwheel providing power to turn huge millstones to grind wheat and maize into flour, which young boys would then pour into sacks. The pencil was never there, but I knew who I would help first. { After my father had graduated from school he had nothing to do so he volunteered to help his brother. He and my father had studied for their bachelors and masters degrees in English together and were both passionate about education. So when a new girl named Malka-e-Noor joined our class, I didnt think anything of it. Malala swung in that cradle, he said. Now we are a country of 180 million and more than 96 per cent are Muslim. One night, after the mufti had failed to persuade our landlady to cancel our lease, he gathered some of the influential people and elders of our mohalla into a delegation and turned up at our door. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription. Her name means Queen of Light and she said she wanted to be Pakistans first female army chief. This pdf file is kept under the category of Stories & Novels pdf files. We all call her Bhabi now. He was smiling. Are you getting the free resources, updates, and special offers we send out every week in our teacher newsletter? The name was ironic and my father often laughed about it, but the organisations aim was serious: to preserve the environment of Swat and promote peace and education among local people. But the school had gone bankrupt, which perhaps should have made them think twice. I could listen endlessly to the story of how they met. 2. It is for those forgotten children who want education. Well, look no further. Definitions and examples of 136 literary terms and devices. A small boy was brought to sit on their laps to encourage the birth of a son. Our own intelligence service, ISI, had virtually created the Taliban. Three children is a small family by Swati standards, where most people have seven or eight. The president of the students group in Jehanzeb College was Ihsan ul-Haq Haqqani. What kind of school is this? asked the official, laughing at his application. One day he called my father excitedly to say hed found the ideal place. I think I am a bit of a disappointment to her as I am so like my father and dont bother with clothes and jewels. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. It happened in a manner so dramatic that it sounds like something out of a movie. NOW DIGITAL! She was unusual in the village as she had a father and brothers who encouraged her to go to school. With just one click, you can post this assessment to your classroom web page. It started to feel as though the school was not meant to be, but my father would not give up on his dream so easily. Her nephew Fazli Hakim had to carry my father on his shoulders. Pacha and his wife Jajai became his second family. 1 A Daughter Is Born WHEN I WAS born, people in our village commiserated with my mother and nobody congratulated my father. Some of the female staff like Miss Ulfat would pick me up and put me on their lap as if I was their pet or even take me home with them for a while. We did not know then that Musharraf was also letting the Americans use our airfields. The way the content is organized, A concise biography of Malala Yousafzai plus historical and literary context for, In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of, Explanations, analysis, and visualizations of, Malala Yousafzai was born in the town of Mingora, Pakistan to a poor but prominent Muslim family, headed by Ziauddin Yousafzai. He ended it with Lincolns words: it is far more honourable to fail than to cheat. I read books and I had a different accent and used slang expressions from Mingora. You'll see a "Provide feedback" button. Malalai went to the battlefield with other women from the village to tend the wounded and take them water. To read online without downloading, click the "READ PDF (FREE ONLINE)" button. They are taking salaries and have to serve you. It was also there that my father met his The new partners again went from door to door, telling people they had started a new kind of school. Malala was even alluded to on an episode of the Netflix show Bojack Horseman when a character referred to her as that Pakistani girl who keeps winning Nobel Prizes.. My two grandfathers did not get on. The village received no electricity from the government so many villagers got their power from these makeshift hydroelectric projects. I would get very depressed and sometimes collapse seeing the problems all around us, said Hidayatullah, but when Ziauddin is in a crisis he becomes strong and his spirits high. My father insisted that they needed to think big. Is education not the right of these children? My father printed thousands of these leaflets, left them at local meetings and distributed them around town. Sharafat Ali worked at the electricity company and he would give my father a few hundred rupees whenever he could spare them. Some were in the newspapers, some were notes or messages passed on by people. Had they done so, he would have been electrocuted. They tend to be in English or Urdu, not in our native Pashto. The holy man was called Lewano Pir, Saint of the Mad, because he was said to be able to calm lunatics. My father was in awe of my grandfather and told me wonderful stories about him, but he also told me that he was a man who could not meet the high standards he set for others. By signing up you agree to our terms and privacy policy. Our favourite game was weddings. They are all questions that were previously asked on worksheets. He would go crying to my mother and I would go to my father. If the school has two teachers, each goes in for three days and signs the other in. In high school I read some Sherlock Holmes and laughed to see that this was the same battle where Dr Watson was wounded before becoming partner to the great detective. But eventually Baba gave him a fine speech, which my father practised and practised. Complete your free account to access notes and highlights, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban. When we went on school trips to visit the mountains, I knew she couldnt afford them so I would pay for her with my pocket money. It was always our mother who shopped for our clothes and took us to hospital if we were ill, even though in our culture, particularly for those of us from villages, a woman is not supposed to do these things alone. When she was born our luck changed. But not immediately. He and Hidayatullah hardly had money to pay for food, let alone bribes. On the day only eight or nine boys and girls turned up. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Only when the lion or tiger has left their footprint were we allowed to go outside. Subjects: You can publish your book online for free in a few minutes! Though my mother was not educated, she was the practical one in the family, the doer while my father was the talker. My father had turned his weakness into strength. My grandfather had studied in India, where he had seen great speakers and leaders including Mohammad Ali Jinnah (the founder of Pakistan), Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, our great Pashtun leader who campaigned for independence. Answer keys included. I was so nervous before the speech, I was trembling with fear. But I still went and bought the maize, took it to my neighbours and then went home. In the 1950s he ended the system where people paid taxes to the khans. My fathers close friend Wahid Zamans brother and brother-in-law were among the many who went to Afghanistan. Suddenly there was a lot of optimism about the future. The Russian invasion transformed Zia from an international pariah to the great defender of freedom in the Cold War. Pop culture, anyone? At home I cried and cried and had to be comforted by my mother. He read the great poems of Saadi, Allama Iqbal and Rumi to my father with such passion and fire it was as if he was teaching the whole mosque. The girl had a big sack and was sorting rubbish into piles, one for cans, one for bottle tops, another for glass and another for paper. SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year as selected above. As soon as the man had gone, Hidayatullah burst into laughter. Among them was Winston Churchill, who wrote a book about it, and we still call one of the peaks Churchills Picket even though he was not very complimentary about our people. My fathers elder brother Saeed Ramzan had worked for years as a teacher at a local school. I am Malala was published by Shoriatullah Shuvo on 2019-05-06. That was tough and dangerous work, and the coffins of those killed in accidents would come back several times a year. One of them was to a boy whose father, Sharafat Ali, had helped my father when he was a penniless college student. By doing so, Malala added to my cultural awareness and illuminated a world about which I had known very little. Its just I so wanted a new book, unmarked by another student and bought with my fathers money. My fathers dislike of Babas frugality has made him a very generous man both materially and in spirit. "@type": "Person", I am MalalaMalala Yousafzai w/ Christine Lamb Created byDr. There was a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl called Seema. We did not realise then that 9/11 would change our world too, and would bring war into our valley. When my father was at home, he and his friends sat on the roof at dusk and talked politics endlessly. Girls should not be going to school, he continued. Everything changed when my father was ten. The plan was to get his school going then, once it was successful, send for his wife. What had I done? Sometimes we would spot rats running through it and crows would circle overhead. The other principals took paying bribes for granted, but my father argued that if all the schools joined together they could resist. 0 %%EOF station63.cebu I Am Malala study guide contains a biography of Malala Yousafzai, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. ~#a:xl,r!M*^mS S EI*/xN#4pZINV{*toUM$6^OI||OwGkrGp^(7/LW-h4&wq As a guest, he was treated exceptionally well. Even today people talk of Mr Bhutto as a man of great charisma. They even persuaded the Americans to let them fly hundreds of Pakistani fighters out of northern Afghanistan. Shortly afterwards the mufti went to the woman who owned the school premises and said, Ziauddin is running a haram school in your building and bringing shame on the mohalla [neighbourhood]. He was becoming known to the army too, and friends told him that the local commander had called him lethal in public. My clothes were often from shops and not home-made like theirs. My father was happy to be able to repay his kindness. We were once a princely state, one of three with the neighbouring lands of Chitral and Dir. Its very hard on them. But she kept eyeing up the pink plastic pretend mobile phone my father had bought me, which was one of the only toys I had. They said the Americans always preferred dealing with dictators in Pakistan. Marriage is part of life, we said. Pakistan doesnt have student loans and he had never even set foot in a bank. He began to sign himself Ziauddin Panchpiri (the Panchpiri are a religious sect) and sprouted the first signs of a beard. I have NOT included lesson plans in this unit. In Pashtun society it is very hard to stomach a cousin being more popular, wealthier or more influential than you are. I developed these questions to test their understanding of the material and to review the things we had discussed in class. Quizzes with auto-grading, and real-time student data. If we advertise we wont be able to watch it. But my father is an optimistic man and never deterred by practicalities. So one of my fathers nephews would have to go along. Many never came back. I could see in his eyes that I had failed him. His own father said it was up to him and agreed to send a barber as a messenger, which is the traditional way we Pashtuns do this. Young love! she shouted. It is not clear like the streams in the hilly areas or like the wide River Swat just outside town, where people fished for trout and which we visited on holidays. Why did Colonel Junaid decide to operate? Lp73ZX He set up the first telephone system and built the first primary school and ended the wesh system because the constant moving between villages meant no one could sell land or had any incentive to build better houses or plant fruit trees. 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