奇速英语

最年轻的诺贝尔和平奖得主马拉拉的故事被搬上银幕

When Yousafzai was just 11 years old, she started blogging（写博客） about the Taliban takeover （控制）of her hometown of Mingora, in northwestern Pakistan. The Taliban follows an extreme version of Islam, and believes young girls should not go to school. Classrooms throughout the Swat district of Pakistan, where Yousafzai lived, had been closed for several months. Yousafzai spoke out about her desire to go back to school. “All I want is an education,” she told one television broadcaster.

Yousafzai was later able to return to class. But she continued to blog and speak out about girls’ right to education. On October 9, 2012, the Taliban tried to silence her. A gunman boarded the truck she and her classmates used as a school bus and shot her in the head. But Yousafzai survived, and showed great courage and optimism during her long recovery. She became a symbol of the struggle for girls’ rights all over the world. Nine months after she was shot, she gave a now-famous speech at the United Nations, in New York City. “They thought that the bullets would silence us,” she said. “And then, out of that silence came thousands of voices...Weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage [were] born.”

In 2014, she was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. She is the youngest Nobel winner in history. In 2015, Yousafzai’s brave story hit the big screen, in the documentary He Named Me Malala. The director, Davis Guggenheim, spent more than 18 months with the Yousafzai family while creating the film. “She is an ordinary girl that became extraordinary because she made an extraordinary choice,” Guggenheim told TFK. “Malala feels that she was lucky when she survived and the reason why she’s been put on this Earth is to speak for girls who don’t have a voice.”