TOW #13 "Malala Yousafzai Noble Peace Prize Acceptance Speech" (Text)

I’m 16 years old going on 17 struggling to write an AP English TOW, while Malala Yousafzai is a 17 year old Nobel Peace Prize award winner changing the future. Malala called upon world leaders to make education available to ALL children. For most people accepting the trophy is the ending and they have achieved everything they could, but for Malala this is just the beginning. Shes leading a fight for 66 million girls around the world who are deprived of education. “This award is not just for me,” she said during her speech. “It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want change. I am here to stand up for their rights, raise their voice … it is not time to pity them. It is time to take action so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education.”Malalas speech was informative, cheerful, and powerful enough to start a movement called #thelast. #Thelast is campaign to stop denying children from education. Malala uses rhetorical devices such as repition and rhetorical devices to call upon her audience to take a stand and make an action. Although Malala addresses girls, her audience encompasses everyone. “Let this be the last time that a boy or a girl spends their childhood in a factory.

Let this be the last time that a girl gets forced into early child marriage.

Let this be the last time that an innocent child loses their life in war.

Let this be the last time that a classroom remains empty.

Let this be the last time that a girl is told education is a crime and not a right.

Let this be the last time that a child remains out of school.

Let us begin this ending.

Let this end with us.

And let us build a better future right here, right now.” She repeats the phrases “Let Us” and “Be the Last” to notify that her audience is collective, and everyone should be involved in her #thelast movement. She ends her speech with a final thought and a rhetorical question saying “  Why is it that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?”

Why is this the case? She asks her audience the question and makes them ponder upon it, there is no answer to this question but there is a driving force to why we should change this pattern.

Malala Yousafzai does an excellent job of proving her purpose of starting a movement. Every time she gives a speech I am blown away by her thoughts, and the motivation she has. It’s amazing to see a girl at the age of 17 changing the world.