Journal Entry 1
‘’Learning to Read’’ by Malcolm X
This is an autobiography of Malcolm’s life, where he educated himself through rigorous learning in prison. In his autobiography, the author believes to be established the importance of studying. Throughout the reading, there are also set of values that we can take into consideration such as self-education, the learning process in ourselves, the challenges that we need to overcome and the discipline to enhance the quality of our knowledge.
Malcolm opens up by linking his struggle in writing simple letters. ‘’I became increasingly frustrated, at not being able to express, what I wanted to convey’’ He describes his concern of not being able to articulate efficiently and introduces his point; lack of knowledge. He takes it as a challenge that he wants to overcome. In my opinion, I observe that this is reliable fact because I also do not have an extended vocabulary which makes me struggle whenever I write essays. I have to overlook for the dictionary. (connect to life challenges values like overcoming any difficult challenge) He shows the importance of
Have you ever feel influent by someone that you think is a role model? Being influential is beneficial in negative and positive ways. For Malcolm happened to be in a positive way; “Bimbi first
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As he recalls ‘’I went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is due entirely to my prison studies’’ As he was evolving his knowledge of words he was progressively enlightening about our history. His journey of empowering himself to become an autodidact – people who have been self- taught- started the first moment when he used practical ways such as writing words that he did not know on the table. He then approaches to study them. The value of this is self-determination because he was firmness on his purpose to learn how to