Malcolm X Essay

“Malcolm X was a hustler and then he was convicted of robbery in 1946, he spends seven years in prison”.[Malcolm, paragraph 1] “Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska and assassinated in 1965.” [Malcolm paragraph 1]He also became an orthodox Muslim, adopting the Muslim name El Hajj. “Moreover, the days of civil rights movements, Malcolm X emerged as political, social and economic ties with the white community.”[Malcolm paragraph 2]

“The history of the United States has in it much separation or segregation due to race.” “Malcolm X is one strong example of an African American man who became a part of a group that acted against it, uniting people to promote the advancement of colored people and change.”[Malcolm paragraph 2] ‘Also, this autobiography of Malcolm X attacks his inability while imprisoned for battling the white man.’’[Malcolm paragraph 5] Another reason how Malcolm X begins to teach himself in prison and he would go through the hard stages to become an intelligent person. For example, he would write words on the table to remember them. Another, he spends two days riffling and unknown words in the dictionary pages.

Malcolm X article covers the different literacy that influenced him in his life. Also, the article explains his motivation can push someone to further his or her academic learning. For example, the prison motivated him to further his reading and become literate and intelligent. Another, he wrote to Mr. Elijah Muhammad of the Islam Nation about his frustration about not being able to express what he wanted to convey them. He said “I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letter that I wrote”[Malcolm X paragraph 2].

In this article, Malcolm X tells us how he learns to read and write and imprisonment change his mind to read and write. One example was the dictionary pages made him remember words. Another was he wrote his words on the table and started reading his own handwriting. Prison gave him the freedom to learn from his mind. He says, “As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive”[Malcolm X paragraph 12]. This example tells that his freedoms are curtailed reading allows him to expand his mental vistas. Then Malcolm learned to how write and he said “I’d written words that I never knew were in the world”[Malcolm X paragraph 13]. He started using the dictionary that had pictures and remembering the words with his imagination which helped him. As he reads more, he understands the history of African Americans and thinks about how that history still affects African- American people in his time. Like he said in the article that he was a hustler and he could barely write and read words but after he was in prison his mind changed.

The purpose of Malcolm X was intended audience everyone to learn history. For example, learning about his autobiography of his learning to read in prison and other. Also he went around the world spreading philosophies, prison population, and history. Another reason to educate people of an important portion of his life his education and promote education literacy.

A personal connection from the article would be how Malcolm X learned words from the dictionary by looking at the pictures. I remember when I was in 1st grade my teacher would give the whole class books to read and it had lots of pictures. This made me remember words and meanings. Another, experience from a Malcolm X article he would copy the dictionary in alphabetically and study each word. This is also an example of my personal experience when I studied for my spelling test in fifth grade I would learn each word alphabetically.

Finally, questions from the article. Why did Malcolm X begin to teach himself? How did the process by which Malcolm learned to read differently from the typical way people learn to read? Describe the benefits of learning for Malcolm X? Describe how Malcolm uses his education to influence others. What was Malcolm X main accomplishment?