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This time, I had chosen a book entitled The Autobiography of Malcom X as my reading assignment. I choose this book because my lecture suggests this is a good book to read. So, I try to read and discover what kind of this book to story about and I found that this is very interesting story about the survival of an Africa-America man from his young age until he died. It is really impressive me and passionate me to know deeper about this man. First of all I would like to explain the chronology of key moments Malcom x during his life. In 1925 Malcolm x was born in Omaha Nebrasaka and given name Malcolm little. His father was a Baptist minister who had been influenced by Marcus Garvey those who believe in separatism. This influenced Malcom x to believe …show more content…

How serious this thing happened at that time never I had imagined before. The movement that brought by Malcom x literally can change all the mindset of every people have their own right and freedom. “I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” — Malcolm X. These all is drive by our own conduct and the distinction between that is the right thing or wrong. Malcom x had been influenced by separatism and discrimination before which until his mindset stated that the black man is an original man in this world which God had created. However, after he got enlightenment of pure Islam, he now able to understand that, all people share the same values and Islam respect to other religion and even other race and different skin color. This is the factors of Malcom X stand and fight for the right and he manage to get as much as support from others about his belief.
Malcom X seems as a trusted individual in this novel. He easy to trust Elijah Muhammad and everything he had done. But in the other side, I wondering that Elijah Muhammad is not a good person for Malcom x. how can Malcom still want to get along with and obey everything from him. However at the end, Malcom x managed to wake up about all these and the true face of Elijah

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