Charene Hawkins Professor Holder May 18th, 2016 AAD 160 Book Report: The Autobiography of Malcolm X Throughout history, we’ve learned about a majority of all the civil rights leaders and how they fought for equal rights and to end segregation. Malcolm X was one of the main civil rights leaders that demanded change and would do anything necessary to acquire it. To understand a man with such wisdom, guidance, perseverance, courage and drive you have to walk through his life. The autobiography of Malcolm X takes you through the journey of brother X’s life and the trials, tribulations and challenges he faced to find himself and what he was destined to do.
Malcom X gives his history on his own literacy in Literacy Behind Bars. He reveals that he did not go any farther academically than the 8th grade. The impression people retain of his literacy and his intelligence extending into advance schooling is largely imparted to his days spent in prison. Malcom would spend every waking hour absorbing everything that he could. He went through the dictionary, copying and memorizing every page from a to z.
For many African Americans, February 21, 1965, is engraved in their memory as profoundly as the assassination of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr is for other Americans. In the turbulent aftermath of his death Malcolm X's disciples embraced the slogan black power and elevated him to secular sainthood by tonight late 1960s he had come to embody the very idea of Blackness for an entire generation like web Dubois Richard Wright and James Baldwin he had denounced the psychological and social costs that racism had imposed upon his people he was also widely admired as a man of uncompromising action the polar opposite of the nonviolent middle-class oriented negro leadership that had dominated the Civil Rights Movement before him Malcolm was
Learning to Read” the story was about Malcolm X Africa American, a man who’s learning to read and write, and he educated himself in his twenty years imprisoned because he commits felony crime of burglary. Eight grade was the higher education he got as a child. The experience of at prison he was jealous of Bimbi of his stock of knowledge. he tries to copy Bimbi but the problem he could not read all the world, he and didn’t understand all the world that he read.
Tony Scott, the author of, “Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies”. Scott explains how ideologies are used in everyday life by stating that, an ideology is a “system of ideas and beliefs that together constitute a comprehensive worldview.” (Scott, 1) People throughout the world live through ideologies every day on the basis of religion, skin color, and where they are from. Such as the social class they are associated with. Family background is another basis of how an individual sees ideology.
Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 to Earl and Louise Little in Omaha, Nebraska. While living in Nebraska, his family experienced pain and persecution, so they decided to move to Michigan. When he was six years old in 1931, the Black Legion murdered his father. After his father’s death, his mother experienced a mental breakdown that caused her to be sent to the state mental hospital. Malcolm was then sent to live with another family, which separated him from his siblings.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is written with three key events all conjoined to create a common portrayal of systemic oppression throughout Malcolm X. The story and aftermath of these three events change Malcolm's life into that of a brainwashed black man. Systemic oppression was developed throughout the story by Malcolm’s Father’s death, his introduction to shorty, and finally his imprisonment. These events develop systemic oppression as the main theme throughout the Autobiography.
Many people claim a hero is someone “special” no one normal can be a hero. What if I told you that people that are a hero to you thought they were normal until they went on their hero 's journey and discovered themselves? A hero 's journey comes in steps which are the Normal World, Call to Adventure, Refusal of the call, Mentor, Start the journey,Tests, Allies, Supreme ordeal, and lastly the Resolution. I 'm going to take you through the steps of Malcolm X’s hero 's journey. Malcolm X as we all know was a inspirational activist, but his hero’s journey was extremely unique.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley’s essay is a great story, which has a tremendous learning. It shows how a cultural background tends to label people in such a way that it can create a negative impact in their life. In many cases, individuals have an opportunity to achieve something better for their life. Malcolm X is just one of many who want to reach a better life, but found others telling him that he does not fit for such as goal or career path. How can someone make us feel that we are not intelligent when we know how smart we are?
Summary of "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X In his essay "Learning to Read" from the chapter "Saved" in Malcolm's Autobiography published in New York (Grove Press, 1965). Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska and his father was a political activist on behalf of Marcus Garvey. After he and his family moved to East Lansing, Michigan, where his father was killed and his mother placed in a mental institution. he became an orphan and ended up on the streets of Detroit where he was known as "Detroit Red".
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).
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.
Malcolm X was a Muslim minister who was also African American. He was a activist for human rights, Malcolm was a bold and courageous spokesperson for blacks to have rights,Malcolm X declared America “white America” to have the most harshest of terms for it’s tenacious treatments against African Americans. In the year 1946, he was sentenced to prison because he was caught breaking and entering. When he was incarcerated, he was chosen to become a member of the Nation of Islam. This is when he changed his birth name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X. Later he had written,”Little was the name that the white slave master … had imposed upon paternal forebears” After his parole in 1952 his popularity grew and became the organization 's most influential leaders, and served as the public face of the controversial group for a dozen years.
A Homemade Education by Malcolm X, is an informative essay about the author Malcolm X dedication to further his education by himself. In this essay the author talks about how he was envious, how he turned that into motivation, and how he didn't let the fact that being imprisoned would keep him from pursing his goals. The essay " A Homemade Education" was very meaningful. The most meaningful thing to me about this essay was the dedication behind the authors purpose to further his education.
Since Malcolm X was envious of Bimbi’s knowledge, he tried to imitate him by reading, but his limited amount of knowledge prevented him from fully grasping the what he read. He stated that, if it weren’t for his desire to learn, he would have given up on reading. His lack of knowledge and penmanship led him to buy a dictionary as well as some tablets and pencils so that he can improve his handwriting. Not knowing which words he needed to know, Malcolm X copied down each page and repetitively read his own handwriting out loud until he eventually wrote down every word in the dictionary. After studying every word, he was finally able to fully grasp what he was reading and read every chance he got.
