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The Tone Of This I Believe And Malcolm X's Autobiography Comparison

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Autobiography Comparison There are many differences and similarities between Jackie Robinson’s essay “ This I Believe” and Malcolm X’s autobiography excerpt “Hair”. They differ in many ways, one being how each person view the time period the pieces were written in. They also compare with how each piece is written, and how the authors present the characteristics of literature. “This I Believe” and “Hair” compare with how the authors introduce the tone, how they deliver the message, and how their pieces affect the reader's. Hair’s tone compares drastically to Jackie Robinson’s tone in “This I Believe.” Malcolm X writes his piece so in the beginning he is joyful and full of happiness. However, when he puts the conk on he becomes rampant …show more content…

Hair gives the reader and insight about how African Americans were treated in the early/ mid twentieth century. His story shows that whites were disrespectful towards blacks. He shows that blacks were small in society, and that they would do anything to try to fit in. It almost resembles high school. People will hurt themselves to meet the standards of people around them. They will diminish their self worth to look like someone they are not. At this point in history, people would hurt themselves to resemble a different ethnicity. His story affects the audience because it shows what the blacks would do to fit in. The story gives you an insight on what discrimination was like for a young, black man. The effect of “This I Believe” is more cheerful. Robinson’s essay affects the readers by being optimistic. His essay is telling the reader that no matter how hard a situation gets, you need to try harder. He says that there is no guarantee, but that if you are to even have a sparkle of hope that you will achieve you will. He shows that if you try hard enough, you will succeed. The effects of the two autobiographical pieces are significantly

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Malcolm is in jail at this point and has begun practicing and loving Islam. His brother Reginald, whom Malcolm has so much faith in and who had also been Muslim, was recently excommunicated by Elijah Muhammad for not practicing “moral restraint”(189). Malcolm is writing to Mr.Muhammad to defend him and stress how important his brother is to him. This specific quote contains very choppy, periodic sentences each with very simple wording and structure, showing Malcolm’s thought process.

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The books Night and The Autobiography of Malcolm X can be compared and contrasted in a variety of ways. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and the autobiography The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X can be compared to one another. The theme and characterization in Night and The Autobiography of Malcolm X can be compared while the styles between the two authors can be contrasted. This essay will compare the books Night and The Autobiography of Malcolm X focusing on the similarities between the themes and characterization and the differences in the authors’ styles.

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In this passage Malcolm X addressed the narrating “I” to address the audience of the autobiography, and he explains to them why he put forward the “sordid” details of his younger years as well as tells the read why he made the decision to spend so much time writing a book at all. This passage shows the reader the important themes that Malcolm X aims to put forward in the book, and that is the theme of race and racism in addition to the theme of religion. The theme of race is present when he says, “I had sunk to the very bottom of American white man’s society.” This quote tells the reader that Malcolm X has aimed, and still aims, to show how American society puts the white man at power, and the African-American man below him. Then the theme

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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).

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The aAuthor’s purpose of Malcolm X from chapter 1 through chapter 11 is self transformation. The idea that Malcolm X gained a better sense of his identity through learning to dance. Malcolm's transformation started when he moved to New York;, he was surrounded by his own kind. Hhe had never been around of a lot of black people and when he went back to Lansing everything that white people said about African Americans bothered him because that's when he started his self transformation (p.153).

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In” Discovering the Power of Language”, a selection taken from The Autobiography of Malcom X, published in 1964, Malcolm X notes that the power of words is great. Malcolm X implies that the proper vocabulary helps to express emotions. Malcolm X develops his thesis by sharing with his readers his personal experience in prison, how he managed to self-educate himself by reading the dictionary and how he elevated himself from a common criminal to a civil rights activist. The author's purpose is to explain how important is your language in order to be heard. Finally, Malcolm X shares with his readers that being able to read a book and understand what the author is saying made him feel such a freedom that he never felt before.

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Summer Writing Assignment Lindsay Harris 8/30/15 Ap Lang Autobiography of Malcolm X Writing Style Alex Haley author of the Autobiography of Malcolm X uses several literary devices to create the tone of his writing. The writer has a very laid back style of writing and the structure is relatively loose. The autobiography is written by telling the story of his life through major events and turning points of his life in chronological order.

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These two scenes show the results of African Americans having hatred for their natural appearance. Malcolm X used the painful lye cocktail to straighten his hair to resemble people of Caucasian descent. Some people believe the scenes are mainly played for laughs, while in his autobiography hair straightening shampoos symbolize self-hatred and wanting to be white. Viewing

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From a common thug to a fiercely intelligent leader, Malcolm X has set the stage for an audience to be truly inspired. His passion for knowledge flows from the pages of his work, “Learning to Read,” naturally drawing the reader into a time and place many people don't know about; prison in the 1940's and '50's. Malcolms devotion to learning, albeit not in the traditional sense, shows in his writing. When describing his past, Malcolm X draws a clear picture of what his time in prison was like. Although his work is not as refined as a piece of literature from someone like Dickens or Hemingway, Malcolm X presents to his audience that willingness, motivation, and a desire to learn can go a long way. Even though Malcolm is telling

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In the Malcolm X speech, he uses many literary devices in order to convey his message to other African Americans to make a difference. Throughout his speech, he uses anaphora to make his ideas prominent; phrases like “I’m not a …” demonstrate not what he isn’t but what he is, or “One of the 22 million black people” is his way of showing the importance of each and every black person in America. When he talks about his metaphor, comparing waiting for his rights to waiting for a meal in a diner, he is proving that it is not okay to work as hard as you do and sit and wait and wait and wait for something you don’t have while another person can just show up and get whatever they want. “I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare”

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