The main characters in I Am Malala are Malala Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai.
The secondary characters include Malala’s mother, Toor Pekai Yousafzai; her brothers, Khushal and Atal; her classmates, Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan; her friends from the Swat Valley, including Khadija Siddiqi (the first girl to be shot on a school bus) and Shiza Shahid; as well as a number of other students who were injured or killed during the same attack.
The story also includes some historical figures that were involved in the conflict between the Taliban and the Pakistani government: Tariq Rahman (a Pakistani journalist), Benazir Bhutto (the former prime minister of Pakistan), Asfandyar Wali Khan (the leader of the Awami National Party), Imran Khan (a Pakistani philanthropist), and Malala’s father’s boss at BBC Urdu Service.
Malala Yousafzai is the protagonist and narrator of I Am Malala. She is from the town of Mingora in the Swat Valley of northwestern Pakistan.
According to the story, Malala began her diary when she was 11 years old and continued writing it until she was 15. Her father encouraged her to write about what was happening in Swat Valley, where he worked as a doctor.
The Taliban ordered all women to stop going to school, but Malala refused to stop going to school even though she was shot by a Taliban member for doing so. She survived the shooting, went on to become a world-famous advocate for girls’ education and human rights, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17.
