Response Prep

Abla 1

Salameh Abla

Prof. Dania Adra

English 203

26 September 2015

“Brand Malala”: Western Exploitation of a School Girl

Coral Anne Grayson

Social perspective

   Greyson is trying to explain that the media is using Malala as a way to try and cover up all the other young people in Pakistan, which have been harmed, but have not gotten the same care that Malala got. Like Malala’s friends who have been left to live in fear and all the other people who were harmed and weren’t shipped off to get first class treatment.

Emotional perspective

    The author seems to be going through different feelings at different parts of the text. The main emotion coral seems to be harbouring is anger. Anger towards companies that view a terrifying situation and twist it in order to make a profit out of it. Another emotion that was visible was pride. The author spoke highly of Malala whenever she mentioned her and put all the blame on the people abusing her

Logical Perspective

The author is trying to exhume the dark side of the media. Showing us that it’s not all rainbows and puppies, and not everything you see on television is done with the best of intensions. Money is what feeds the beast and people will go to an extent to get it. An example the author gives us would be Rigoberta Menchu who “is alleged to have altered facts to project her cause” (Grayson 597).

Rhetorical Perspective

   The text as a whole seems to be a non-fictional argumentative essay, comparing and contrasting the different outcomes that certain people have gone through. She uses quite a bit of rhetorical questions throughout the essay to help the readers think about the whole problem a little bit more in depth like “I wonder, how many people can name the other girls injured when Malala was shot? What quality of care and support did they receive? Are they represented by PR companies?” Greyson’s essay is made up of mostly long sentences with some, but very little repetition.

Ethical Perspective

   By the end of the blog, Greyson says:

Malala should not be used as a diversion to distract away from other women that have been fighting in British courts for years to highlight injustice and the wrongdoing of government. This does not help the cause of any woman while one is exploited and others are being suppressed!

She is emphasizing how it is our duty to make sure everyone gets the treatment they deserve and not only a select few. She also speaks about how strong, good role models like Malala (who like Greyson, wants the best for others) are seen as weak by the media and taken advantage of, and how that should be brought to an end, while also ensuring that their, and all the other voices that have not been heard, be heard

                                                                          Work Cited

Grayson, Carol Anne. “’Brand Malala’: Western Exploitation of a School Girl”. Shifting Narratives: A Reader for Academic Writing. Educart (Middle East) Publishing: Beirut, 2015.