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Imagery And Sentence Structure Of Malcom X

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Malcom X was about a man that lived in America during the period in time with the racial segregation. The author uses the imagery and sentence structure to make it seem like you are there as or with Malcom. The book starts before his birth, when his mother ran the house and his father, an anti-white spokesman constantly was away. The writer did a great job of portraying the problem using the KKK as an example of all the white supremacist groups that existed back then. He also goes into all the things the groups would do to the poor black families. The author gave multiple occasions of this. One example of this was “Nightmare Night.” This was when Malcom’s house was burned down. His family did escape, but had to move as their home had been …show more content…

This made it interesting as the author uses the lessons learned by the people around Malcom to help him learn the lessons. One of these people is Lora (chapter four). She was always looking out for Malcom and his best interests, even if he couldn’t see it himself. At that point in his life, he wanted to make a living as one of the black elites. She, along with some others, showed him that he didn’t truly want this as the whites would still be above him in the pecking order. Then the author picked the perfect time to include Malcom’s visit to Boston. This was the perfect time because he had already started to open his eyes to why he hated Detroit, and the white populous. When he was visiting, he got a taste of the black society. He loved it. He wanted to stay there, but couldn’t. When he came back, he realized how much he truly hated the white society. He decided to move to Boston. This was the only confusing part, as the point in between the visit and actually moving was not very long, not much happened, and the story was a bit incoherent. Once he actually got to Boston, however, the author made the story very interesting. The descriptions the author uses about the zoot suits, and the dancing, and just the society in general was encapsulating, putting you right there with Malcom. The author made you happy or sad, depending on Malcom’s …show more content…

He didn’t have a job in Boston, and needed some way to make money. Someone offered him the idea of hustling, or selling drugs, to the people in Boston. He did this along with beginning to gamble. This was the start of a huge and important point in his life. The author does a great job of describing this, explaining all the guns he needed to carry and when the police planted in his room with the stuff, for them to “find” later. He described how he needed to move and start selling to the poor parts in town, how he needed to be clever when talking to the police. The Author also makes this point in the book last just enough, just over a chapter. After this he moves onto the conclusion, when everything Malcom had been doing crumbled in on him and he finally got arrested. This was the point in which Malcom’s family came back in his life. They were trying to convince Malcom to turn to “the honorable” Elijah Muhammad. This was not necessarily the most interesting point that the author made, but it was not forgettable either. Malcom did eventually embrace this man and began to preach inside the jail about him. After an interesting preach, in which a book was mentioned, the book immediately disappeared from the jail’s library and was unavailable, showing what the whites truly felt about him and other

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