Performance of Book Review of ‘I AM MALALA’

Under Supervision of:

Dr. Swati Agarwal
School of Management

Submitted by:
KHUSHI AGARWAL
BENNETT ID-BU21BBAN300119
Roll No: M21BBAU0110
Section B(B1)
Human Resource Management

BBA
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, GREATER NOIDA
BATCH 2021-24
 DECLARATION

I, Khushi Agarwal, certify that this project is entirely original, that it

is based on my own research and/or study, and that I have properly
cited all materials and sources used in its creation, including all
books, articles, reports, and other written materials as well as
electronic and verbal communications.
I further confirm that I have not previously submitted this project for
evaluation in any academic setting and that I have not otherwise
plagiarised or replicated the work of others.
I certify that I have recognised and disclosed all potential conflicts.

Name: - Khushi Agarwal

 PREFACE

This project report aims to compile all of the effort and commitment I
put into finishing the project work on finishing the book "I AM
MALALA" BY: MALALA YOUSAFZAI and analysing. I have simply
and authentically described my experiences. I sincerely hope that
anyone who read it will find it intriguing and worthwhile.
 ACKNOWLEDGEENT

I, Khushi Agarwal, therefore certify that this project is entirely

original work on my part, and I would like to express my gratitude to
Dr. Swati Agrawal for her unwavering support and direction in
helping me finish this project on schedule. Also, I want to thank her
for helping me finish the book and for exposing me to fantastic
opportunities. Also, I'd want to thank the BBA chair for proposing
this study topic and allowing us the chance to expand our expertise.
 LETTER OF TRANSMITAL

Business Administration Bachelor

Bennett University
DAY: March 7, 2023
Dr. Swati Agrawal
I, Khushi Agarwal, kindly request your review of our report on the
book "I AM MALALA".
I have attempted to bring forward “the brief review of the book”. To
gather data, I used both qualitative and quantitative tools.
I appreciate all of your assistance and encouragement throughout this
process. This project report should live up to your expectations, we
hope. We eagerly await your comments on our findings and
suggestions.

Khushi Agarwal
 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY
This is to certify that the project, titled "I AM MALALA," which
Khushi Agarwal, enrolment number M21BBAU0110, completed
under my supervision and is being submitted to Bennett University in
partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of the degree of
Bachelor of Business Administration, is authentic and original.
This project represents the student's original work, which hasn't been
submitted to the university or institute in order to fulfil any course of
study requirements.

Faculty Member's Signature

TABLE OF CONTENTS

S.NO. CONTENTS
1 Abstract
2 Introduction to the book
3 Objective
4 About the Author
5 Brief Storyline
6 Protagonist Opinion
7 Leadership Management
Lessons
8 Learnings
9 Conclusion
 ABSTRACT

So, in this report I will be doing a very influential book which is ‘I

Am Malala’- How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed
The World. Here I will be discussing about her childhood life and how
it changed after the Taliban attacked her. How she fought for the girl
child education. Also, I will be discussing about what I learned
personally after reading this book. Then I will mention some of the
leadership management lessons and how it affected the conflict. I
learnt and how she dealt and handled conflicts when she faced some
situations or incidents that happened in her life. Then I will also
discuss about the author’s opinion on the book itself. Also, I will be
giving a brief overview of the book. Next, I will be mentioning some
of the author’s view on the book self. In the end of the report, I will
be mentioning the learnings and concluding it.
 INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK

I Am Malala: Malala Yousafzai co-wrote the autobiography The

Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by
the Taliban with Christina Lamb. Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the
United Kingdom and Little, Brown & Company in the United States
published it on October 8, 2013.
The book tells the story of Yousafzai's childhood, her father's
activism and ownership of schools, the rise and fall of the Tehrik-i-
Taliban Pakistan in Swat Valley, and the assassination attempt on
Yousafzai on October 9, 2012, when she was 15 because of her
activism for female education. However, the book has been banned
from many Pakistani schools.
"Before the Taliban", the life of Malala Yousafzai, is covered in
Part 1. She describes Swat Valley, her childhood home. Yousafzai,
who bore the name Malala of Maiwand, lived with her mother Toor
Pekai, her father Ziauddin, and two younger brothers, Khushal and
Atal. Rohul Amin, Ziauddin's father, was a teacher and imam.
Section Two, "The Valley of Death", subtleties the ascent of the
Tehrik-I-Taliban Pakistan in Smack. Fazlullah started a popular radio
show called "Radio Mullah" in 2006. At first, the show offered advice
on things like abstaining from drugs and doing ritual ablutions, but it
later condemned music and dancing and told women to stay at home.
In addition, the book describes the ongoing conflict in North-West
Pakistan and Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan, which led to her
assassination. Ziauddin Yousafzai maintained his outspoken activism
while the Taliban carried out additional murders like Shabana's.
"Three Bullets, Three Girls" is the title of the third part. The
Taliban are defeated by the army in Swat by August 2009, and the
Yousafzai family returns. Malala's school reopens, and she and her
classmates travel to Islamabad to meet Major General Athar Abbas
and deliver a public speech.
Section Four is named "Among Life and Demise". Yousafzai was
hit by a single bullet that travelled from her left eye to her shoulder.
Her friends Shazia and Kainat were also hit but were not killed. While
Yousafzai's mother was learning to read and rushed home to pray,
Yousafzai's father gave a speech with the Association of Private
Schools before rushing to the hospital. Malala was airlifted to a
military hospital in Rawalpindi after being transported by helicopter
to the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar.
"A Second Life" is the title of Part Five. On October 16, Yousafzai
awoke in Birmingham. Over the next few days, she became obsessed
with where her father was and couldn't pay for medical care, even
though the Pakistani government was paying for it. Numerous gifts
and 8000 cards were presented to Yousafzai.
 OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK

It is unheard of in Western culture for women to be denied access to

education. The story of Malala and the freedom she represents in
education are emblematic, and the book conveys a message to the
world. In some nations, education, which is regarded as a right by
many, is used as a tool of oppression.
All education is the same. We ought to learn everything and then
select a course of action. Education is human, not Eastern or Western.
— Malala Yousafzai's story emphasizes the importance of education.
It challenges readers to delve deeper into the subject of education and
its function in society. Progress is hampered, peace is endangered, and
poverty endures when certain social groups are denied access to
education. These principles also hold true in Western cultures, where
education is the first step in reducing crime and violence in
impoverished areas and eradicating poverty. There are resemblances;
It provokes thought.
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yousafzai Malala, she is a Pakistani female education activist and the

2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is the world's youngest Nobel
Prize laureate, the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a
Nobel Prize. She is known for advocating for human rights,
particularly the education of women and children in her native Swat,
where the Pakistani Taliban have at times prohibited girls from
attending school. She has become Pakistan's "most prominent
citizen," according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi,
whose advocacy has developed into an international movement. She
was born in Swat to a Yusufzai Pashtun family and was named after
the Afghan national hero Malalai of Maiwand. She is the daughter of
education activist Ziauddin Yousafzai. She considers Benazir Bhutto,
Barack Obama, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan to be her role models. She
was particularly inspired by the thoughts and humanitarian work of
her father. At the beginning of 2009, when she was 11 years old, she
wrote a blog for the BBC Urdu under the pseudonym Gul Makai to
describe her life during the Taliban's occupation of Swat. She rose to
prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was
nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist
Desmond Tutu. The following summer, Adam B. Ellick, a journalist,
produced a documentary about her life for the New York Times.
 BRIEF STORYLINE

Malala Yousafzai's journey to school in October 2012 marks the

beginning of the book. She considers Pakistan's transformation and
the Taliban's continued threat to advocates for women's rights and
education. The bus abruptly comes to a stop, and someone inquiries
about her. He shoots her in the head when she doesn't respond
because she isn't wearing her burqa, a veil that covers most of a
woman's face.
In 1997, Malala Yousafzai was born in Pakistan. She belongs to the
Pashtun ethnic group, which mostly lives in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. She resides in the picturesque Swat Valley in North-
western Pakistan. Malala has been a Muslim all of her life. From an
early age, she was aware of the limitations being put on her since
she's female.
Male passion is evident in Malala's father. He won several debating
competitions when he was young and was raised in a family that
valued education. Malala's father started schools for girls and boys
when Zia the dictator took over Pakistan. This is unusual in Pashtun
culture because women are not supposed to be educated. However,
when he achieved great success later in life, his efforts eventually paid
off. Malala points out that her father married Tor Pekai out of love,
not because he was forced into it; This is also extremely uncommon
among Pashtuns. She mentions that her father instilled in her strong
beliefs about education, free speech, and other issues that she still
fights for today.
Malala excelled in debate and public speaking competitions. She
became the best in her class and made a vow never to steal again.
Malala was a kid who was exceptionally bashful from the outset yet
turned out to be more certain as she became older. She became one of
Pakistan's most talented young speakers by the age of six thanks to
her parents' encouragement to participate in competitions where she
could hone those skills. Malala excelled academically and was
referred to as "the professor" because she consistently performed well
on examinations. Malala took a friend's toy one day while she was
playing with it without thinking about what she was doing; But later,
when she realized that stealing was wrong and unfair to those around
them, she decided to stop. Her parents expressed their regret for their
daughter's actions after the incident because they were so ashamed.
Malala vowed to never steal again because she didn't want people to
look down on her family's name because of something like that again.
Malala saw the poverty around her as she grew up in a poor area.
Malala was pleased that her father granted scholarships to more
children to attend his school. She also made the observation that a lot
of people would use Islam as an excuse for not allowing women to
learn or get an education; She did, however, believe that it was
perfectly acceptable for women to acquire education while remaining
devoted Muslims.
The world was shaken by the assaults of September 11, 2001. A
group known as the Taliban emerged in Malala's community, which
had always been moderate and accepting. The Taliban provided a
very strict interpretation of Islam that prohibited women from
attending school or being seen in public without covering up. They set
fire to the gigantic Buddha at Bamiyan, which was one of the most
well-known landmarks in her area. This horrified both the locals and
Malala, who was only ten years old at the time.
When the Taliban assassinate the female prime minister Benazir
Bhutto in 2007, the situation in Pakistan gets worse. She was a
significant role model for Pakistani women, and many of them were
inspired by her, so this is a devastating blow. The Taliban turns out to
be rougher after the death by exploding schools that offer training to
young ladies as well as young men. Ziauddin uses his influence to
write articles in the newspapers he writes for that criticize the Taliban.
 PROTAGONIST OPINION

Malala Yousafzai's memoir is written in the first person and from her
perspective. She emphasizes both her own and her family's
experiences. Malala also incorporates political and historical contexts
due to the nature of her story, particularly the rise of the Taliban in
Pakistan.
The primary goal of Malala is to advocate for girls' access to
education in Pakistan (and elsewhere in the world). Malala was shot
because she was trying to go to school in Pakistan, which is ruled by
the Taliban. However, she wants readers to know that the terrorism of
the Taliban cannot force her to submit. She will keep going after her
education; In fact, after being shot, she is even more determined. In
addition, Malala aims to raise awareness of her cause and inform
readers about Pakistan's political climate. Malala is extraordinary in
many ways, but she wants readers to see what it's like to live in
Pakistan and other Taliban-controlled countries. Malala Yousafzai
writes in the first person in a memoir based on her diary entries. She
focuses on her own experiences, even though she places her own
story in the context of what happened in Pakistan during her lifetime.
Education for girls was strongly discouraged while she was in school.
Her advocacy for education earned her recognition when she was just
a child. She was shot by a gunman as she was walking home from
school after receiving a death threat from the Taliban. She provides
her own biography and additional information about education in I
Am Malala to further her goal of advocating for education,
particularly for girls and in nations where it is discouraged or not well
supported, and to inspire others not to be silenced by violent
opposition.
 LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT
LESSONS
There are four leadership management lessons that I learnt after
reading the book: -
1. TAKE A STAND
Leaders who publicly stand up for their beliefs can
accomplish something even greater than motivating others
to act on their behalf.
Malala was raised in a house that valued education but when
Taliban started to ban the schools around her and terrorise
the girls her dream of getting educated started to slip away.
But then she took a stand by going to school continuously
even after the threat of Taliban.

2. FIND YOUR STORY

No one is a born storyteller. It is a learned art.
To win for her cause she knew that she had to master the art
of persuasion. She used to spend hours in the bathroom
practising her speech by looking in the mirror. She realised
that her life, her struggles and her aspirations made the most
effective story. She does not recount her experiences just for
the sake of publicity. She does this just to grab people’s
attention and inspire them.

3. BE YOURSELF
You change the world by being yourself.
Malala may have a voice on the international stage, but she
does not claim to be the world's foremost educator. She
knows that she needs to let people see who she really is in
order to convince them. She uses her pranksterish humour,
 honesty, and youthful charm to disarm people, despite the
fact that she always advocates for what she believes in.

4. LISTEN WELL
Because Malala is unapologetically herself, her message
resonates with that thing all leaders require: authenticity.
Malala goes on trips all over the world, meeting girls in
troubled areas who are facing the same challenges she did in
Pakistan. Malala intuitively recognizes that assuming she
knows precisely what they require will prevent her from
aiding. Malala has formed a group of young activists from
the area who are her brain trust because she has become an
adept listener. She is kept up to date on their ideas and
progress. Malala, on the other hand, makes use of the fund's
blog, social media, and her powerful global connections to
amplify their voices, spread their messages, and raise funds
to support their efforts to provide their communities with
educational opportunities.
 LEARNINGS
1. SPEAK UP
"When we are silenced, we only realize how important our
voices are.”
It can be easy to take for granted the freedom to speak up,
particularly the freedom to do so in safety. I am reminded by
Malala that millions of girls and women do not have that
luxury, and if we are able to do so, we must use our voices to
ensure that those who are silenced can be heard. Malala is a
great example of this.

2. BE BRAVE
"There comes a time when you must decide whether to remain
silent or stand up."
The story of Malala is one of incredible bravery. She has stood
up repeatedly against fear, threats, and violence and has
continued to fight for what she believes to be right in the face of
adversity that many could scarcely imagine. Her bravery
inspires me to be more courageous, and her refusal to succumb
to fear inspires me to do the same.

3. BE DETERMINED
"I'm just a committed and stubborn person who wants every
child to get a good education, women to have the same rights,
and peace in every part of the world."
Malala never wavers in her commitment to the education of
girls, no matter what else is going on in her immediate
environment. Malala exemplifies the value of dedication and
 conviction, though I frequently experience feelings of frustration
when it appears that change occurs far too slowly.

4. BE KNOWLAGABLE
"None of the nine largest nations in Africa, Latin America, or
developing Asia has increased the amount they spend on
education."
Some are even making drastic cuts, which is making it harder
for girls to go to school. I am reminded by Malala's knowledge
of her cause that in order to effect change, I must first
comprehend how it works. It is abundantly clear that Malala is
aware of the challenges that countries all over the world face in
denying girls access to education. This awareness is what
prompts people to pay attention to her and take her seriously.

5. BE HUMBLE
"I tell my story not because it is one-of-a-kind, but rather
because it is not." It is the tale of numerous young ladies."
Malala always speaks and acts with kindness, grace, and
humility, despite her numerous accomplishments, awards, and
fame—she is the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Prize.
Although it is not specific to gender equality work, it is a
quality I admire and strive to emulate nonetheless.
 CONCLUSION
The shooting of Malala quickly spread across the globe. After
hearing her story, Malala became a symbol of hope and
inspiration to everyone. She has spoken to the United Nations
since her recovery and urged world leaders to provide free
education to every child.

A meaningful book for adults and teens is "I Am Malala." It

provides a glimpse into the difficulties of living in a nation
controlled by extremists as well as the lives of a Pakistani
teenager and her family. It will undoubtedly make readers feel a
little bit more grateful for the educational opportunities we have
in this nation. The book shows what can happen when a small
voice rises to the occasion and motivates change in our world.