Power of Education
Malcolm X’s “Coming to an awareness of Language” (rpt. In Santi V Buscemi and Charlotte Smith, 75 Reading Plus, 10th ed. [New York: McGraw Hill, 2013] 21-24) is an essay about the importance of being educated or self-taught. He details his experienced with struggling to broadening his range of language in order to communicate better. Being able to write and read formally give Malcolm X the power to be heard and taking seriously by higher authority.
During Malcolm time in prison he went through a major transformation compare to the life he had before. He went from an uneducated hustle and criminal to realized that the important of having an education. Malcolm was determined to get an education before going to prison because mostly all the people he associated with was uneducated. Malcolm mentioned that he had known many hustlers who look rich and smart, but they don’t really know how to read. …show more content…
They didn’t take those letters seriously because they know that he was an uneducated man. Later on, Malcolm write to the governor of Massachusetts, Mayor of Boston, and Harry S. Truman blaming the white society for being uneducated. However, his letters are never being heard or answered because he couldn’t get his point across his writing. Malcolm was “never been one for inaction” (22), so he decided to do something about it. In Charlestown Prison Malcolm meet someone name Bimbi, who made him feel “envy of his stock of knowledge.” (23) Malcolm X try to emulate him but due to his lack of education he couldn’t do so. Malcolm realized that best thing he could to is to “get hold of a dictionary.” (23) In the essay Malcolm explain the process of overcoming the complexity of language by reading and writing the whole dictionary. Malcolm wrote down the words in his tablets and learned many things he never knew
Malcolm X’s “Coming to an awareness of Language” (rpt. In Santi V Buscemi and Charlotte Smith, 75 Reading Plus, 10th ed. [New York: McGraw Hill, 2013] 21-24) is an essay about the importance of being educated or self-taught. He details his experienced with struggling to broadening his range of language in order to communicate better. Being able to write and read formally give Malcolm X the power to be heard and taking seriously by higher authority.
During Malcolm time in prison he went through a major transformation compare to the life he had before. He went from an uneducated hustle and criminal to realized that the important of having an education. Malcolm was determined to get an education before going to prison because mostly all the people he associated with was uneducated. Malcolm mentioned that he had known many hustlers who look rich and smart, but they don’t really know how to read. …show more content…
They didn’t take those letters seriously because they know that he was an uneducated man. Later on, Malcolm write to the governor of Massachusetts, Mayor of Boston, and Harry S. Truman blaming the white society for being uneducated. However, his letters are never being heard or answered because he couldn’t get his point across his writing. Malcolm was “never been one for inaction” (22), so he decided to do something about it. In Charlestown Prison Malcolm meet someone name Bimbi, who made him feel “envy of his stock of knowledge.” (23) Malcolm X try to emulate him but due to his lack of education he couldn’t do so. Malcolm realized that best thing he could to is to “get hold of a dictionary.” (23) In the essay Malcolm explain the process of overcoming the complexity of language by reading and writing the whole dictionary. Malcolm wrote down the words in his tablets and learned many things he never knew