Malcolm X Coming To An Awareness Of Language

Textual Analysis of “Coming to an Awareness of Language” In the enlightening essay “Coming to an Awareness of Language”, Malcolm X defines his prison experiences he went through. He details his experiences with struggling with broadening his spectrum of language in order to better communicate. The catalyst of his interest in language was his realization that he was unable to speak articulately when writing to people he admired. He saw that his inability to express himself prevented him from conveying himself in the best way possible and sought to change that for himself. His illiteracy thwarts him from achieving his goals of spreading his religious beliefs to people known to him in black community. Malcolm X commits and goes through all the …show more content…
The essay is narrative because the story defines how Malcolm X Enlighted himself. In the short narrative, “Coming to an Awareness of Language”, by Malcolm X, readers are told the story of how Malcolm X developed from an illiterate street hustler to a self-educated man in prison. Malcolm X recalls his stay in the prison as never feeling “so truly free in life”. The reader gets a firsthand account of the story of Malcolm X, which gives the audiences a better and more realistic connection to situations in the story. The second method of organization is process because in the essay Malcolm X describes the process of how he learned to read and write by stating how he copied and noted down each and every word in dictionary. He then describes his next process of how he spoke each and every word he noted, aloud and tried to remember the word. In the essay he describes this process by saying “aloud, I read back to myself everything I’d written on the tablet”. With the help of narration and process, Malcolm X describes his prison life and how he learned to read and …show more content…
Malcolm X informs the reader how educating himself, changed his life. He informs readers the prison life and his incapability to read and write. He informs all audiences that how he went to a struggle with the language and overcame it. He educated himself at the end and shows every individual that nothing is impossible, it just needs hard work and commitment. The second purpose of the essay is express, because Malcolm X talks of the freedom to express himself well using the correct language. He could read, write and speak English fluently; something that he realized had been like a prison to him even though he was articulated in the hustling world. He expresses his frustration of not being able to communicate his thoughts in the letters he wrote. He knew that he wasn’t getting any replies to his letters because no one could understand his feelings and expression he was trying to portrait on the letters. He then expresses his dedication and commitment to educate himself, and finally becomes successful and completely satisfied with the new art he learned. Malcolm X efficiently expresses himself by giving the details of his emotions and informs all audiences not to give up their goals and never stop