Malcom X-Learning To Read

The "Learning to Read" by article was powerful, incredibly bold. Given the fact that there is so much history and mistreatment in the history behind the piece. The article was written in an almost subtle way at first, as a narrative "It was because of my letters that I happened to stumble upon starting to acquire some type of home made education" (223). It begins very calm beginning on how and why he started reading. Then as he utilizes this story to open up to his point "If I weren't out here everyday battling, I could spend the rest of my life reading[...]" (231). He is saying that through the angst of adversity there should be no reason why anybody should not recieve an education, even if they have to teach themselves. I also believe that this is why the article was more appealing to me was because it was full of achievement on your own merits, the whole triumph over adversity.

However, during some pparts of the essay, there was an immense amount of resentment toward the "white man", which Malcom X had every right to express. It is depressing to know that the knowledge he learned through reading was the atrocities the "'white devils' " commited. Also, this is merely a biased portion of history, it is true that every culture has events that there are not proud of. Yet he keeps in mind that without reading he would not have gained all this knowledge and he could support the points he was making in his letters and speeches.