Malcom X Prison Studies Summary

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In the article, Prison Studies written by Malcom X is about the time he spent in prison, which gives him a chance to educate himself to impress people that “he went to school”. He started off by talking about what had made him interest to reading and writing in the Charlestown Prison. He mentioned Bimbi who taken charge of any conversation he was in; he was emulate with Bimbi, and it created a motivation for him. After that, he tried to read his first book, but he did not understand what the book talk about. He has skipped some words he did not know, and he ended it with the book that did not make sense to him. When he moved to another place, he got a dictionary and wrote down everything including punctuation marks. Every night, he read his

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