Personal Narrative: Coming To An Awareness Of Language

At some point in our lives, there’s wonder of the different circumstances that surround us. For instance, language, everyone at a point feels foreign when restricted to comprehend or engage a conversation due to the lack of dialectal experience. In “Coming to an Awareness of Language,” Malcom X felt secluded since he wasn’t acquainted with the vocabulary that surrounded him, which in other words caused him to be caught between two worlds of language. Corroborating to his experience, I’ve felt this way countless times due to embarrassing events in my childhood as well as my early adolescent years which really pushed me to pursue a new language that turned me into the educated human being I am now, similar to Malcolm X. For instance, the protagonist (Malcolm X), of the passage felt “increasingly frustrated,” in other words vigorously alone with no one to express himself to. Anything that left his mouth just wasn’t enough to be at the level of those to whom he wished to converse with, which led him to reinvent his way of speaking(Malcolm,68). He spent copious nights reading and rewriting the dictionary sections which is something most don’t do. As I read his knowledgeable encounter, the memory of me being in …show more content…
I was in class trying to accustom myself with my new way of learning, when my teacher called me and took me outside the classroom to harshly tell me that I would never catch up and that it was better if I stayed behind and do third grade again. Since I wasn’t understanding what she was saying, she called a classmate that didn’t have any sympathy towards me. As my peer blurted out what the instructor was trying to say, I felt that a part of me was broken since she didn’t even try to be compassionate to me nor did she believe in my capabilities. I was just a kid who felt that she wasn’t and would never be good enough, causing me to become