Their determination to overcome extremely challenging situations has changed history and inspired men and women around the world. Malcolm X’s passion to learn to read and women’s stories to overcome crisis is an example of what I feel I have experienced in my life. Similar to the difficulties of Malcolm X’s “Learning to Read” and the women in “Around the World” by Richard Rodriguez, I too have struggled to overcome extreme adversity. By the glimmer of barely any light, in Malcolm X’s “Learning to Read” essay, he learned about horrible racial atrocities that forever changed his life. From the illustrations of tortured women and children to men being whipped to their deaths, Malcolm X continued to feverishly read.
Malcolm X, a world-renowned activist leader. His essay “Homemade Education” expresses his determination to read and write better. He desired to be able to grab the audience attention and shock them with his knowledge. Malcolm X became an influential leader from reading and writing in prison despite the lack of formal education of black men.
He also changes again to otrhodox Islam and chanhged his name to -prompt people to look in the book- and was assasinated later.. Learning to read was acctually written by Alex haley using information from interviews. mainly about Malcom's growth of knowledge throiugh fluentl reading and how racial injustices have so much factual information and events caused by the white man-Insert example here- during his time in prisions. audience- Malcom X is speaking to everyone
Thesis: In “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, Malcolm X in his telling of his life to Alex Haley uncovers the theme of positive and negative environments unearthed by the interaction of African Americans and White Americans in his life and what those kinds of environments inherently produce. Annotated Bibliography Nelson, Emmanuel S. Ethnic American Literature: an Encyclopedia for Students. Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015.This encyclopedia points out that the negative interaction he held with the white man as a young hustler was countered by these same experiences pushing Malcolm X to reclaim his “African identity”. This shows, as described by the cited work, what a man pushed by his negative interactions with the oppressive white men is willing to do to find his identity (i.e. through hustling).
In the narrative, “Learning to Read,” Malcolm X discusses the topic of how significant it is to learn how to read and write and how it can be beneficial. He believes that people should take initiative and go for what they want in life instead of making excuses. First, he opened up by saying how frustrated he was not being able to read or write. After he was involved in criminal activity, Malcolm, was sentenced for seven years in Charlestown prison. During his time in prison, he met a prisoner named Bimbi.
Shivam Patel Professor Caitlyn Doherty English 1001 30 January 2023 Text in Action Proposal For the Text in Action paper, I plan on using Malcolm X’s Learning to Read. I chose this piece of text because of the impact Malcolm X had on the Civil Rights Movement. I believe that people like Malcolm, MLK, and Rosa Parks had a big part to do with the changes in culture and beliefs in America on African Americans. The moving essay "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X describes how, while imprisoned, he taught himself to read. He became a civil rights activist after reading about the terrible events in history and learning about them.
Meng, a student from Southeast Asia realized that Malcolm had a “homemade education” (X and Haley 182), but was trying to understand how to take from the inspiration without being overwhelmed. Sirc explains that the students are looking at this from his informal education from the inside, yet once they receive that inspiration then they are able to begin a writing process with a depth and study of his life outside then they become deeper scholars. He also knows that in the reading the context of Malcolm’s words, the rhetoric of his street life can take the reader from the “outside to the inside” (X and Haley 53) and leave the student in a state of belief permanency. He uses the example
If you were given the option stay in a confined cell day after day doing nothing, or access to a library where you could spend your days educating yourself and reading books, which would you choose? This was how Malcolm X, an African American activist, decided to look at his prison sentence. He became fed up with not knowing the world around him and not being able to converse with others on those topics. Malcolm X was able to use the research during his prison sentence to show the reality of the white man’s actions and support them by historical events documented in stories and various personal experiences. Mr. X begins his story with, “It was because of my writings that I happened to stumble upon starting to acquire some kind of a homemade education” (134), to describe his spark in reading.
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet. In our society, many consider violence as mostly inappropriate and childish. The reason being is as humans we should be capable of discussing and compromising when an obstacle is present, however many argue that that is not an option in certain situations. We can look back at 1950s-1960s, where racism loomed over in the south aimed at mostly at American Americans. Boycotts and lynchings were a popular occurrence from town to town which both the state and federal government showed minimal efforts to prevent.
The anger at one’s self of being unable to do something causes such frustration that one must follow the two pathways that are given: giving up or stubbornly continuing it. This is what Malcolm X has faced during his time in prison, and he chose to continue to learn to read even though he was still in prison. In Malcolm X’s Learning to Read, it presents that the ability to read and understand is a valuable skill that opens up to a world of knowledge and destroying one’s ignorance of the world. Learning to Read by Malcolm X illustrates that learning to read changes one from being ignorant about his or her surroundings into an knowledge one understanding his or her surroundings. While Malcolm X was in prison, he realizes how frustrating it was
Malcolm X in his essay “Learning to Read’’ describes his experiences learning how to express himself in writing. As a non-native English speaker, I relate to his struggles. The way Malcolm X, without a teacher, managed to become a good writer, and with sheer determination he managed to read the whole dictionary. His determination greatly influenced the civil rights movement despite his methods. Malcolm X’s “ Learning to Read” describes the baby steps of a great civil rights leader.
In “Learning to Read”, Malcolm X uses rhetorical analysis to argue how African Americans continued to struggle in gaining education due to racism. He informs people that through our history books, there have been modifications that restrain the truth about the struggles black people faced. Malcolm X encouraged his audience to strive to get the rights that they deserved. He demonstrates that knowledge is very important because the truth empowers us. In his interview he persuades his audience with diction, tone, pathos, ethos, and appeal to emotion to make his point.
Malcolm X's "Literacy Behind Bars" is about the expansion of his world that provokes a burning passion within himself through the world of reading. While incarcerated, the author meets a man named Bimbi who leads the discussion with his stock of knowledge, prompting Malcolm X to further his skills in literacy. Taking small steps, he first broadens his vocabulary by reading alphabetically in the dictionary and copying pages. He reads aloud to himself until the words begin to stick with him. Not long after moves onto books, devouring them at a relentless pace, Malcolm X became so engrossed with reading that he begins breaking curfew rules just to continue reading by using the light outside of his cell.
Introduction: Malcom X urges the Negro community to fight to gain the equal rights they deserve by taking action against their white oppressors. He emphasizes that blacks will gain their rights either thorough voting, with the ballot, or else through the inevitable violence with the bullet. Thesis [part a] Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., also fighting for the civil rights of black Americans in the 1960s, but in a more peaceful manner, Malcom X takes a different approach.
What makes a leader? I believe a leader to be intelligent ,tough, and has the determination to achieve a goal. Having certain skills will have an impact on you being a trustable leader. Being selfless and caring are also characteristics. Malcolm X his birth name Malcolm Little is a fine a example of a leader and has most of these leadership qualities.
