Each author demonstrates their distinct view on the importance of education. Paramount effects were given to them by their determination in making education a dominant priority. Friday Night Lights character Don Billingsly contrasted to this due to his lack of concern for his education. Friday Night Lights states “Don Billingsly’s focus was on the game ahead, not on school…school was just there for Don, a couple of classes to fill up time that offered virtually no challenge…” (Billingsly 129) Malcolm X distinguished from Don in the sense that he wished he acquired such an education Don had been given but ceased to take advantage of, rather that the one he received. In the Autobiography of Malcolm X, he states, “It had really begun back in the
