Ava Baker’s Reviews > I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban > Status Update

In the book right now the Taliban is becoming very harsh and cruel. Malala states, "The bodies would be dumped in the square at night so that everyone would see them the next morning on their way to work" (Yousafazi 147). In this we see them being inconsiderate of the people that they killed. They want them to be shown off, but not moved so people will know what will happen to them if they act out of character.

This book is very good! It starts out with Malala a young girl who loves school barely has any rights. She is starting to see how badly women are treated compared to men, and she isn't okay with it. "I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children" (13).