I Am Malala

What would we say is good, the snake or the lion?

If there is a snake or lion coming to attack us, What would we say is good, the snake or the lion?

Explain what this quote means to Malala and the people of Pakistan.

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Malala uses the snake or the lion as a metaphor for the political climate in the SWAT Valley. Malala asks her classmate Attiya, comparing the army and the Taliban to the snake or lion: both choices are undesirable and bad for the people in their own way.

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