1. Frederick Douglas in “Learning to Read and Write” is a slave who has no privilege to have education. He mentioned different ways to educate himself how to read and write. He first learns his alphabet from his Mistress, the slaves master wife, though it was prohibited. However, the Mistress stopped from teaching him how to write because of the racial inequality of that time. That didn’t stop Douglas from finding a way to learn. He then copies the letters written on the wood in the lumber yard and memorizes them every time he goes. Another method he used is to challenge his “white” friend to write. He would compare his writing to his “white” friend’s writing so he could get an idea on how to write better and have a good source to learn from.
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The process by which Malcolm learned to read differ from the typical way people learn to read is, he prefer to isolate himself to his cell to educate himself secretly from all the books available. He used dictionary as a learning tool. With the aid of little light in the evening, he would copy all the word in dictionary gradually and re-read the definitions, making sure that he understands it
2. In “Learning to Read,” Malcolm broadens his intellectual. For that reason, he taught himself history: World history, African History and Philosophy, through historical books and references, which made him disappointed because he learned how history had been falsely told and people did not truly know anything about the African background.
3. Malcolm and Frederick way of learning to read was totally different. They both used help from different resources to teach themselves. Learning to write, they both copied words from a book that aid them to learn to write on their own. The parallels and differences in the things they learned from their reading was their knowledge of African history. Douglas learned that Americans went to Africa and stole the civilians to make them as slave while Malcolm learned that history was falsely told and nobody knows about the real story of
The process by which Malcolm learned to read differ from the typical way people learn to read is, he prefer to isolate himself to his cell to educate himself secretly from all the books available. He used dictionary as a learning tool. With the aid of little light in the evening, he would copy all the word in dictionary gradually and re-read the definitions, making sure that he understands it
2. In “Learning to Read,” Malcolm broadens his intellectual. For that reason, he taught himself history: World history, African History and Philosophy, through historical books and references, which made him disappointed because he learned how history had been falsely told and people did not truly know anything about the African background.
3. Malcolm and Frederick way of learning to read was totally different. They both used help from different resources to teach themselves. Learning to write, they both copied words from a book that aid them to learn to write on their own. The parallels and differences in the things they learned from their reading was their knowledge of African history. Douglas learned that Americans went to Africa and stole the civilians to make them as slave while Malcolm learned that history was falsely told and nobody knows about the real story of